HOPE. 1. Yet when an equal poise of hope and fear Does arbitrate the event, my nature is That I incline to hope rather than fear. 2. MILTON'S Comus. What can we not endure, When pains are lessen'd by the hope of cure? 3. 4. Hope! of all the ills that men endure, NABB. The only cheap and universal cure! Thou captive's freedom, and thou sick man's health! Hope! fortune's cheating lottery! COWLEY. COWLEY. 5. A beam of comfort, like the moon through clouds, Gilds the black horror, and directs my way. DRYDEN. 6. Hope is the fawning traitor of the mind, NAT. LEE. 7. Hope, of all passions, most befriends us here: YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 8. O hope! sweet flatterer! thy delusive touch GLOVER. 9. Hope springs eternal in the human breast; POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Hope, like the taper's gleaming light, And still, as darker grows the night, 11. And as, in sparkling majesty, a star GOLDSMITH. Gilds the bright summit of some gloomy cloud, JOHN KEATS. 12. The evening beam, that smiles the clouds away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. BYRON'S Bride of Abydos. 13. Eager to hope, but not less firm to bear, Acquainted with all feelings save despair. BYRON'S Island. 14. Eternal Hope! When yonder spheres sublime Peal'd their first notes to sound the march of time, Thy joyous youth began, but not to fade, When all thy sister planets had decay'd ; When wrapt in flames the clouds of ether glow, And heaven's last thunder shakes the world below, 15. Hope's precious pearl in sorrow's cup CAMPBELL. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 16. What though corroding and multiplied sorrows, From the German. 17. And should fortune prove cruel and false to the last, Let us look to the future, and not to the past. 18. Be still, sad heart! and cease repining; Behind the cloud is the sun still shining. EPES SARGENT. H. W. LONgfellow. 19. Never forget our loves, but always cling J. G. PERCIVAL. 20. O, if love and life be but a fairy illusion, And, true and unchanging, hope on till I die! 21. For me I hold no commerce with despair! MRS. OSGOOD. DAWES' Geraldine. 22. Strange, how much darkness melts before a rayHow deep a gloom one beam of hope enlightens ! 23. Sweet to the soul the whispering Of hope and promise, when Fancy's soft fairy voices sing- 24. Hidden, and deep, and never dry- A living spring of hope doth lie DAWES' Geraldine. MRS. WELLS. 25. Does hope allure?—does pleasure smile? Then tread the rosy path with trembling; For pleasure beckons to beguile, And hope's fair promise is dissembling. MRS. HOLFORD's Margaret of Anjou. 26. Sweet hope! how easily thy tale MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou. 27. Like the gloom of night retiring, When in splendour beams the day, Hope again my heart inspiring, Doubt and fear shall chase away. 28. The heart bow'd down by weight of woe, To weakest hope will cling. BALFE'S Bohemian Girl. 29. Hope the sweet bird!—while that the air can fill, Let earth be ice-the soul hath summer still! 30. And canst thou bid me smother A hope that lighted Long years of sorrow? A hope that leaves none other, When it is blighted, To make life dear? The New Timon. FRY'S Leonora. HORSE. 1. Long-hoof'd, short-jointed, fetlocks shag and long, Broad breast, full eyes, small head and nostril wide, High crest, short ears, straight legs and passing strong, Thin mane, thick tail, broad buttocks, tender hide. SHAKSPEARE. 2. The beast was sturdy, large and tall, BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. The courser paw'd the ground with restless feet, And snorting, foam'd, and champ'd the golden bit. DRYDEN. 4. Champing his foam, and bounding o'er the plain, 5. With flowing tail and flying mane, Came thickly thundering on. 6. The long, long tail that glorified That glorious donkey's hinder-side. BYRON'S Mazeppa. 7. I strode o'er his back, and he took to his wind, 8. He plac'd on him a bridle and a saddle, SANDS. SANDS. J. T. WATSON. HUMILITY. 1. It is the witness still of excellence, To put a strange face on its own perfection. SHAKSPEARE. |