100 BREVITY-BRIBERY. 27. Commanding, aiding, animating all, Where foe appear'd to press, or friend to fall, 28. And tho' I hope not hence unscath'd to go, Who conquers me, shall find a stubborn foe. BYRON'S Lara. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 29. There is a tear for all who die, 30. But each strikes singly, silently, and home, BYRON. BYRON'S Corsair. 31. They fought like brave men, long and well. FITZGREEN HALLECK. 32. Yet, it may be, more lofty courage dwells In one weak heart which braves an adverse fate, Warm'd by the fight, or cheer'd through high debate. CALUMNY - DETRACTION— ENVY — SLANDER, &c. 1. No wound which warlike hand of enemy It ever can recured be again. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 't is something, nothing; "T was mine, 't is his, and has been slave to thousands : But he, who filches from me my good name, Robs me of that which not enriches him, SHAKSPEARE. 3. Be thou as chaste as ice, as pure as snow, Thou shalt not escape calumny. SHAKSPEARE. 4. That thou art blamed shall not be thy defect; SHAKSPEARE. 5. Who stabs my name, would stab my person too, Did not the hangman's axe lie in the way. 6. For envy doth invade Works breathing to eternity, and cast Upon the fairest piece the greatest shade. 9* CROWN. ALEYN. 102 CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY - SLANDER, &c. 7. So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's valiant, handsome, wise, BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. Envy's a sharper spur than pay, GAY's Fables. 9. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise. GAY's Fables. 10. Who praises Lesbia's eyes and features, 11. Canst thou discern another's mind? What is 't you envy? Envy's blind. GAY's Fables. GAY'S Fables. 12. Slander'd in vain, enjoy the spleen of foes; 13. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; AARON HILL. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 14. Base envy withers at another's joy, THOMSON'S Seasons. CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY - SLANDER, &c. 15. With that malignant envy, which grows pale And sickens, even if a friend prevail, And damns the worth it cannot imitate. 16. For every thing contains within itself 103 CHURCHILL. The seeds and sources of its own corruption; But Envy, of all evil things the worst, 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, 18. 19. Curse the tongue BYRON'S Don Juan. Whence slanderous rumour, like the adder's drop, The ignoble mind Loves ever to assail with secret blow 20. As a base pack of yelping hounds, So they will on some plan unite, HILLHOUSE. W. G. SIMMS. J. T. WATSON. 104 CANDOUR-CARE, &c. CANDOUR. -(See ARTIFICE.) CARE-MELANCHOLY - GLOOM. 1. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire, cut in alabaster? 2. Care that is enter'd once into the breast, Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 3. SHAKSPEARE. BEN JONSON. That spoils the dance of youthful blood, BLAIR'S Grave. 4. The spleen with sudden vapour clouds the brain, 5. But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, 6. If thou wilt think of moments gone, BLACKMORE. BURNS. From the Spanish-BOWRING. 7. Go, you may call it madness-follyYou shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay! ROGERS. |