52 APPLAUSE-POPULARITY. 4. Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend, POPE'S Essay on Man. 5. He spoke, and bow'd; with muttering jaws The wondering circle grinn'd applause. 6. The noisy praise GAY'S Fables. his ear, 7. Some shout him, and some hang upon DRYDEN. COWPER'S Task. 8. Oh popular applause! what heart of man 9. In murmur'd pity, or loud-roar'd applause. COWPER'S Task. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 10. What if the popular breath should damn the sun DAWES' Athenia. ARCHITECTURE, &c. - ARGUMENT, &c. 53 ARCHITECTURE - BUILDING. 1. The princely dome, the column and the arch, The sculptur'd marble, and the breathing gold. Did not with curious skill a pile erect Of carved marble, touch, or porphyry, No sumptuous chimney-piece of shining stone And coldly entertain his sight; but clear AKENSIDE. CAREW. And cheerful flames cherish and warm him here. 3. Windows and doors in nameless sculpture drest, 4. The high embower'd roof, Casting a dim religious light. 1. BURNS. MILTON. ARGUMENT-SOPHISTRY. But this juggler Would think to chain my judgment, as mine eyes, MILTON'S Comus. 54 ARGUMENT - SOPHISTRY. 2. Enjoy thy gay wit and false rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence; 3. Reproachful speech from either side 4. Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart, Trite sentences, hard terms of art, 5. He'd undertake to prove, by force MILTON'S Comus. GAY'S Fables. GAY's Fables. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. A man convinc'd against his will, Is of the same opinion still. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Now with fine phrase, and foppery of tongue, More graceful action, and a smoother tone, The orator of fable and fair face Will steal on your brib'd hearts. 8. In subtle sophistry's laborious forge. YOUNG. 9. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, YOUNG. But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 10. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me? POPE'S Moral Essays. 11. Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same at last. POPE'S Moral Essays. 12. But as some muskets do contrive it, The stronger arguments he apply'd. TRUMBULL'S M'Fingal. 13. The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, 14. BYRON'S Childe Harold. He cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heav'nly hue BYRON'S Childe Harold. 15. His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, 16. With temper calm and mild, And words of soften'd tone, BYRON'S Don Juan. He overthrows his neighbour's cause, Vicksburg Whig. 56 ARTIFICE-CANDOUR. 17. With neat and rounded phrase He tricks the shapeless thought; Vicksburg Whig. 1. ARTIFICE- - CANDOUR. Make my breast Transparent as pure crystal, that the world, 2. Shallow artifice begets suspicion, 3. 4. 5. And, like a cobweb veil, but thinly shades Imperfect mischief! BUCKINGHAM. CONGREVE. Thou, like the adder venomous and deaf, In executing, puzzled, lame, and lost. You talk to me in parables; CONGREVE. You may have known that I'm no wordy man: Honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. OTWAY. OTWAY. |