25. It tempts him from the blandishments of home, Mountains to climb, and frozen seas to roam. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 26. Gold, gold! in all ages the curse of mankind! 1. There is a lust in man no charm can tame, 2. Skill'd by a touch to deepen scandal's tints, With all the high mendacity of hints, HARVEY. While mingling truth with falsehood, sneers with smiles, 3. In fact, there's nothing makes me so much grieve, As that abominable tittle-tattle, Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle. 4. I loathe that low vice, Curiosity; BYRON. BYRON'S Don Juan. But if there's any thing in which I shine, BYRON'S Don Juan. 1. Grace was in her steps, heaven in her eye, In every gesture, dignity and love. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 2. Each look, each motion wak'd a new-born grace, That o'er her form its transient glory cast. 3. Grace, that with tenderness and sense combin'd To form the harmony of soul, of face, Where beauty shines, the mirror of the mind. MASON. 4. See what a grace is seated on that brow! MASON. SHAKSPEARE. 5. Her grace of motion, and of look, the smooth 6. Sweet thoughts are mirror'd in her face, And every motion is a grace. 7. A lovelier nymph the pencil never drew, 8. Manners all graceful, without art, That to each look and word impart A modesty and ease. MILMAN. HAYLEY. LEVI FRISBIE. GRATITUDE-INGRATITUDE. 1. I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, SHAKSPEARE. 2. The private wound is deepest. O time most curst! 'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the worst! SHAKSPEARE. 3. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child! SHAKSPEARE. 4. A grateful mind By owing owes not, but still pays, at once MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 5. What can I pay thee for this noble usage, 6. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, ROWE. GRAY'S Elegy. 7. He that has nature in him must be grateful; MADDEN. When 't is not in our power to repay it. FRANKLIN. 9. If there be a crime Of deeper die than all the guilty train Of human vices, 't is ingratitude. BROOKE. 808 GRAVE-GREATNESS, &c. 10. All should unite to punish the ungrateful; Ingratitude is treason to mankind. 11. Pride may cool what passion heated, 12. O, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, THOMSON. BYRON. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 13. And you, my dearest friend! how shall I thank you? What shall I do, to show my grateful heart? From SOPHOCLES. GRAVE. (See DEATH.) GREATNESS-POWER. 1. Let Hercules himself do what he may: SHAKSPEARE. 2. What great ones do, the less will prattle of. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Small curs are not regarded when they grin; But great men tremble, when the lion roars. SHAKSPEARE. 4. The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword. 5. Vain pomp and glory of the world, I hate ye! SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 309 6. Authority intoxicates And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make them giddy, proud, and vain; 7. This leader was of knowledge great BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. POPE. 8. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 9. A knight of high renown: Not Quixote bold, 10. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, SOMERVILE. Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm; 11. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. 12. A despot, big with power obtain'd by wealth, And that obtain❜d by rapine and by stealth. 13. What is station high? "T is a proud mendicant: it boasts and begs; And oft the throng denies its charity. GOLDSMITH. DR. JOHNSON. COWPER. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. |