OMNIPOTENCE, INSCRUTABLE. He that of greatest works is finisher, So holy writ in babes hath judgment shown OPENNESS. I must be found; My parts, my title, and my perfect soul, OPHELIA DROWNING. There is a willow grows aslant a brook, A. W. ii. 1. That shows his hoar leaves in the glassy stream; But our cold maids do dead men's fingers call them. 0. i. 2. Fell in the weeping brook. Her clothes spread wide; As one incapable of her own distress, Or like a creature native and endu'd Unto that element: but long it could not be, OPINION (See also CENSURE.) I am that I am, and they that level At my abuses, reckon up their owne, H. IV. 7. I may be straight, though they themselves be bevell, All men are bad, and in their badness raigne. Poems. Because you want the grace that others have, There's nothing good or bad, but thinking makes it so. Our virtues Lie in the interpretation of the time. H.VI. PT. I. V. 4. H. ii. 2. C. iv. 7. 0.1.3 OPINION,-continued. But fish not with this melancholy bait, M. V. i. 1. P. P. ii. 2. A plague of opinion! a man may wear it on both sides, like a leather jerkin. T. C. iii 3. OPPORTUNITY (See also DELAY, IRRESOLUTION, NEGLECT). There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Is bound in shallows, and in miseries. And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose out ventures. J.C. iv. 3. Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, A. C. ii. 7. When the sun shines, let foolish gnats make sport, A little fire is quickly trodden out; C. E. ii. 2. H. VI. PT. III. iv. 8. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, I find my zenith doth depend upon A most auspicious star; whose influence If now I court not, but omit, my fortunes OPPOSITION. R. II. iii. 2. T. i. 2 Back, I say, go; lest I let forth your half pint of blood ;— back, that's the utmost of your having:-back. OPPRESSION. I love not to see wretchedness o'ercharg'd, C. v. 2. M.N. v. 1. I am an ass, indeed; you may prove it by my long ears. I have served him from the hour of my nativity to this instant, and have nothing at his hands for my service, but blows; when I am cold, he heats me with beating: when I am warm, he cools me with beating; I am awak'd with it, when I sleep: rais'd with it, when I sit driven out of doors with it, when I go from home; welcomed home with it, when I return: nay, I bear it on my shoulders, as a OPPRESSION,-continued. C. E. iv. 4. beggar her brat; and, I think, when he hath lam'd me, shall beg with it from door to door. Each new morn, New widows howl, new orphans cry, new sorrows M. iv. 2 THE NATURAL DUTY OF RESISTANCE TO. The poor wren, The most diminutive of birds, will fight, ORATION, PEDANTIC. Taffeta phrases, silken terms precise," Three pil'd hyperboles, spruce affectation, Doubt not, my lord; I'll play the orator, ORATORY, POPULAR. For in such business, M. iv. 2. L. L v.2 R. III. iii. 5. Action is eloquence, and the eyes of the ignorant Pray, be content; Mother, I am going to the market-place; Chide me no more. I'll mountebank their loves, Cog their hearts from them, and come home belov'd C. iii. 2. C. iii. 2 ORDER. Degree being vizardea, The unworthiest shows as fairly in the mask. The heavens themselves, the planets, and this centre, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, ORDER,-continued. Office, and custom, in all line of order: And posts, like the commandment of a king, Sans check, to good and bad: But when the planets, What plagues, and what portents! what mutiny! Commotion in the winds! frights, changes, horrors, The unity and married calm of states Quite from their fixture! O, when degree is shak'd, The enterprise is sick! How could communities, Strength should be lord of imbecility, And the rude son should strike his father dead: Force should be right; or, rather, right and wrong (Between whose endless jar justice resides) Should lose their names, and so should justice too. Then every thing includes itself in power, And appetite, a universal wolf, So doubly seconded with will and power, Must make perforce a universal prey, And, last, eat up himself. Great Agamemnon; Follows the choking: And this neglection of degree it is, That by a pace goes backward, with a purpose T.C. i. 3. ORDER,-continued. The world is still deceiv'd with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt, But, being season'd with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? ORNAMENT. Thus ornament is but the guiled shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf The seeming truth which cunning times put on OTHELLO'S APOLOGY. Rude am I in speech, peace; M.V. iii. 2. M. V. iii. 2. And little bless'd with the soft phrase of And little of this great world can I speak, More than pertains to feats of broil and battle; In speaking for myself: Yet, by your gracious patience, Of my whole course of love; what drugs, what charms, (For such proceeding I am charg'd withal) I won his daughter with. Her father lov'd me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year; the battles, sieges, fortunes, I ran it through, even from my boyish days, Of moving accidents by flood and field; Of hair-breadth 'scapes i' the imminent deadly breach; Of being taken by the insolent foe, And sold to slavery; of my redemption thence, And portance in my travel's history: Wherein of antres vast, and desarts wild, Rough quarries, rocks, and hills whose heads touch heaven, It was my hint to speak. Such was my process; And of the cannibals that each other eat, The Anthropophagi, and men whose heads Do grow beneath their shoulders. These things to hear, 268 |