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!
Thy fetters are forg'd for the soul and the mind:
The limbs may be free as the wings of a bird,
And the mind be the slave of a look and a word.
To gain thee, men barter Eternity's crown,
Yield honour, affection, and lasting renown.

1. There is a lust in man no charm can tame,
Of loudly publishing his neighbour's shame ;-
On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly,
While virtuous actions are but born and die.

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,
A thread of candour with a web of wiles.

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,
"Tis in arranging all my friends' affairs,
Not having, of my own, domestic cares.

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
And swimming majesty of step and tread,
The symmetry of form and feature, set
The soul afloat, even like delicious airs
Of flute and harp.

6. Sweet thoughts are mirror'd in her face, And every motion is a grace.

7. A lovelier nymph the pencil never drew,
For the fond Graces form'd her easy mien,
And heaven's soft azure in her eye was seen.

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,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

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
Indebted and discharg'd.

MILTON'S Paradise Lost.

5. What can I pay thee for this noble usage,
But grateful praise? so heaven itself is paid!

6. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land,
And read their history in a nation's eyes.

ROWE.

GRAY'S Elegy.

7. He that has nature in him must be grateful;
'Tis the Creator's primary great law,
That links the chain of beings to each other.

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.

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GRAVE-GREATNESS, &c.

10. All should unite to punish the ungrateful;

Ingratitude is treason to mankind.

11. Pride may cool what passion heated,
Time will tame the wayward will;
But the heart in friendship cheated
Throbs with woe's more maddening thrill.

12. O, colder than the wind that freezes

Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
The trusting bosom when betray'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
The cat will mew, the dog will have his day.

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.

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6. Authority intoxicates

And makes mere sots of magistrates;

The fumes of it invade the brain,

And make them giddy, proud, and vain;
By this the fool commands the wise;
The noble with the base complies;
The sot assumes the rule of wit;
And cowards make the brave submit.

7. This leader was of knowledge great
Either for charge or for retreat;
He knew when to fall on, pell mell,
To fall back and retreat as well.

BUTLER.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

POPE.

8. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

9. A knight of high renown: Not Quixote bold,
Nor Amadis of Gaul, nor Hudibras,
Mirror of knighthood, e'er could vie with thee.

10. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form,

SOMERVILE.

Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm;
Tho' round its breast the rolling clouds are spread,
Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

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;
It begs an alms of homage from the throng,

And oft the throng denies its charity.

GOLDSMITH.

DR. JOHNSON.

COWPER.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.