Couarge. A generous few, the vet'ran hardy gleanings Resolv'd on death, disdaining to survive Come on my friends. To Alfred we will cut Fear. [Masque of Alfred. How ill this taper burns!-Ha! who comes here? It comes upon me---Art thou any thing? Love. Who can behold such beauty and be silent? For ever fix and gaze on those dear eyes: Anger. [Orphan. Hear me, rash man; on thy allegiance hear me, And kingdom. If, when three days are expired, By Jupiter this shall not be revok'd. [Tragedy of Lear, Away!--no woman could descend so low, 1 skipping, dancing, worthless tribe you are. Fit only for yourselves, you herd together; And fancy raptures which you never knew. As, in a theatre, the eyes of men, [F. Penitent. Even fo, or with much more contempt, men's eyes That, had not God, for fome ftrong purpose, steel'd Hatred. How like a fawning publican he looks! I hate him, for he is a chriftian; [Richard II. I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. Pride. [Merch. of Venice. Afk for what end the heavenly bodies shine, My footftool earth, my canopy the fkies." [Essay on Man, B Humility. I know not how to thank you. Rude I ami, [Doug. There is a ftupid weight upon my fenfes, A difinal fullen ftillness, that fucceeds The storm of rage and grief, like filent death, After the tumult and the noile of life, Love was th' informing active fire within: Now that is quench'd, the mafs forgets to move, And longs to mingle with its kindred earth. [Fair Penit. Commanding. Silence, ye winds, That make outrageous war upon the ocean; Hear, hear my powerful voice, through all thy regions; Hope. Rinaldo & Armida. O hope, fweet flatterer, whofe delufive touch The captive, bending with the weight of bonds, Send back th' exploring meffenger with joy, And let me hail thee from that friendly grove. [Boadecea. Boasting. My arm a nobler victory ne'er gain'd ; And I am prouder to have paff'd that stream, Than that I drove a million o'er the plain. Perplexity. I [Lee's Alexander. Go fellow, get thee home, provide fome carts, And bring away the armour that is there. Gentleren, will you go and mufter men? If I know how to order thefe affairs, Revenge. [Richard II. If it will feed nothing elfe, it will feed my revenge. He hath difgraced me and hindered me of half a million, laughed at my loffes, mocked at my gains, fcorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's his reafon? I am a Jew, Hath not a Jew eyes? Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimenfions, fenfes, affections, paffions? Is he not fed with the fame food, hurt with the fame weapons, fubject to the fame difeafes, healed by the fame means, warmed and cooled by the fame winter and fummer, as a Christian is? If you prick us do we not bleed? If you tickle us, do we not laugh? If you poifon us, do we not die? And if you wrong us, fhall we not revenge? If we are like you in the reft we will refemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Chriftian, what is his humility? Revenge. If a Chrif tian wrong a Jew, what fhould his fufferance be, by Christian example? Why, revenge. The villainy you teach me I will execute; and it fhall go hard, but I will better by the inftruation. Remorse. [Merchant of Venice: I remember a mafs of things but nothing diftinctly; a quarrel but nothing wherefore. O that man fhould put an enemy in their mouths, to fleal away their brains! that we fhould, with joy, pleafance, revel and applaufe, transform ourfelves into beafts! I will ask him for my place again he fhall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as a Hydra, fuch an answer would ftop them all. To be now a fenfible man, by and by a fool, and prently a beast. Every inordinate cup is unbleft and the ingredient is a devil., Tragedy of Othella. In the following lessons there are many examples of an tithesis, or opposition in the sense. For the benefit of the learned, some of these examples are distinguished by Italic Letters; and the words so marked are em phatical. SELECT SENTENCES. TEACHING. O be very active in laudable purfuits is the diftinguish There is an heroic innocence, as well as an heroic courage. There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself has its ftated limits, which not being ftrialy obferved, it ceafes to be virtue. It is wifer to prevent a quarrel before hand, than to revenge it afterwards. It is much better to reprove than to be angry secretly. No revenge is more heroic, than that which torments envy by doing good. The difcretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pafs over a tranfgreffion. Money, like manure, does no good till it is fpread. There is no real ufe of riches, except in the diftribution; the reft is all conceit. A wife man will defire no more than what he may get july, ufe foberly, diftribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly. A contented mind and a good confcience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear who dares to die. There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloomy prefages and terrors of the mind; and that is, by fecuring to ourselves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events, and governs futurity. Philofophy is then only valuable, when it ferves for the law of life, and not for the oftentation of science. |