The pen flowing in love, or dipped black in hate, Or tipped with delicate courtesies, or harshly edged with censure, Hath quickened more good than the sun, more evil than the sword, More joy than woman's smile, more woe than frowning fortune; And shouldst thou ask my judgment of that which hath most profit in the world, For answer take thou this, The prudent penning of a letter. 2661 Heaven first taught letters for some wretch's aid, They live, they speak, they breathe what love inspires, 2662 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 51 Letters admit not of a half-renown; 2663 Good by Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. ii. Line 197. my paper's out so nearly, I've only room for 2664 LIBERTY Yours sincerely. Moore: Fudge Family in Paris. Letter vi. see Freedom, Slavery. I must have liberty Withal, as large a charter as the wind, To blow on whom I please. 2665 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. In liberty's defence, my noble task, Of which all Europe rings from side to side; This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask, Content, though blind- had I no better guide. 2666 Milton: Sonnet xxii. To Cyriack Skinner. License they mean when they cry Liberty. 2667 The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself th' inferior gift of heaven. Milton: Sonnet xii 2668 Dryden: Palamon and Arcite. Pt. ii Line 901 When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. 2669 Addison: Cato. Act ii. Sc. 3 A day, an hour, of virtuous liberty Is worth a whole eternity in bondage. Addison: Cato. Act ii. Sc 1 2670 That balm of life, that sweetest blessing, cheap 2671 Somerville: Chase. Bk. i. Line 388. Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs 2672 Liberty, like day, Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 40 Breaks on the soul, and by a flash from Heaven 2673 Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 882. But slaves that once conceive the glowing thought All that the contest calls for; spirit, strength, Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 373. 'Tis liberty alone that gives the flow'r Of fleeting life its lustre and perfume, And we are weeds without it. 2675 Cowper: Task. Bk. v. Line 445. Oh, could I worship aught beneath the skies, With fragrant turf and flow'rs as wild and fair Cowper: Charity. Line 254. The wish, which ages have not yet subdued In man, to have no master save his mood. 2677 Byron: Island. Canto i. St. 2 Oh! if there be, on this earthly sphere, A boon, an offering heaven holds dear, "Tis the last libation Liberty draws From the heart that bleeds and breaks in her cause. 2678 Moore: Lalla Rookh. Paradise and the Pert LIBRARIES -see Books. Here you must bide, my friends, with me entombed 2679 Bayard Taylor: Poet's Journal. Third Evening I love vast libraries; yet there is a doubt As great a store J. G. Saxe: The Library Have we of books as bees of herbs or more. 2681 Henry Vaughan: To His Books. LIES -see Defiance, Fiction.. The Lie circumstantial," and the "Lie direct." 2682 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act v. Sc. 4. These lies are like the father that begets them, gross as a mountain, open, palpable. 2683 Then, Bolingbroke, as low as to thy heart, Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act ii. Sc. 4. Shaks.: Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. Through the false passage of thy throat, thou liest! 2684 You told a lie; an odious, damned lie: 2685 Shaks.: Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, 2686 Dryden Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 114. The man of pure and simple heart Through life disdains a double part; He never needs the screen of lies 2687 Dare to be true. Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable $ Nothing can need a lie; A fault which needs it most, grows two thereby. 2688 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 13. And he that does one fault at first, And lies to hide it, makes it two. 2689 Watts: Divine Songs. No. xv see Adversity, Child, Death, Despair, Dissolution Providence, Retirement. We are such stuff As dreams are made on, and our little life 2690 Shaks.: Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1 Reason thus with life; If I do lose thee, I do lose a thing That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art, (Servile to all the skiey influences,) That dost this habitation, where thou keep'st, Hourly afflict. 2691 Shaks.: M. for M. Act iii. Sc 1 'Tis but an hour ago since it was nine; And after one hour more, 'twill be eleven: 2692 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7. The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees 2693 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 3. Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player, 2694 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5. The time of life is short! To spend that shortness basely were too long 2695 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. I have set my life upon a cast, Shaks.: Richard III. Act v. Sc. 4. 2697 Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xi. Line 553 Circles are prais'd, not that abound Waller: Long and Short Life. Like pilgrims to th' appointed place we tend; The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. 2699 Dryden Palamon and Arcite. Bk. iii. Line 2163 Take not away the life you cannot give, For all things have an equal right to live. 2700 Vain hopes and empty joys of human kind; Proud of the present, to the future blind! Dryden: Of the Pyth. Philosophy. Line 705. 2701 Dryden: Cymon and Iphigenia Line 323 Must we count Life a curse and not a blessing, summed-up in its whole Live while you live, the epicure would say, 2704 Doddridge: Epigram on his Family Arms Life can little more supply, Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 3. Than just to look about us and to die. Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto iii. Line 101. Behind, and strikes them from the book of life. 2707 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 346 I hear a sound of life - of life like ours Of laughter and of wailing, of grave speech, Of little plaintive voices innocent, Of life in separate courses flowing out Like our four rivers to some outward main. I hear life-life! 2708 Mrs. Browning: Drama of Exile. Sc. Farther On Life's little stage is a small eminence, Inch-high the grave above; that home of man, 2709 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 362 Why all this toil for triumphs of an hour? 66 2710 Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv Line 97 |