12. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,) Virtue alone is happiness below. POPE'S Essay on Man. 13. She points the arduous height where glory lies, And teaches mad ambition to be wise. 14. Beside the bed where parting life was laid, POPE. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 15. Virtue on herself relying, In the hope of being blest. 16. Virtue in itself commands its happiness, Of every outward object independent. GOLDSMITH. FRANCIS. Stands like the sun, and all which rolls around 18. And let not this seem strange; the devotee Lives not on earth, but in his ecstasy; 19. Around him days and worlds are heedless driven, While he lives, BYRON. BYRON'S Island. To know no bliss but that which virtue gives; MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 458 PREFERMENT-PRESS- PRESUMPTION. 20. Count life by virtues these will last When life's lame-footed race is o'er; And these, when earthly joys are past, Shall cheer us on a brighter shore. MRS. S. J. HALE. PREFERMENT. 1. For places in the court are but like beds 2. 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter and affection, Not by the old gradation, when each second 3. If on the sudden he begins to rise, No man that lives can count his enemies. WEBSTER. SHAKSPEARE. 4. All preferment, MIDDLETON. That springs from sin and lust, shoots quickly up, PRESS. (See Books.) PRESUMPTION. 1. I was indeed delirious in my heart, MIDDLETON. BYRON. 2. If 't is presumption for a wretch condemn'd To throw himself beneath his judges' feet, A boldness more than this I never knew. 3. But think not, because at your words I ne'er frown, 1. PRIDE-VANITY. Man, proud man, Dress'd in a little brief authority, Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, 2. One whom the music of his own vain tongue Doth ravish, like enchanting harmony. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Of all the causes which conspire to blind POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 4. Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer, To boast one splendid banquet once a year. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 5. Here vanity assumes her pert grimace. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 6. Though the rock of my last hope is shiver'd, And its fragments are sunk in the wave, BYRON. 460 PRISON - PRISONER, &c. 7. And with stern patience, scorning weak complaint, Hardens his heart against assailing want. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 8. Stern and erect his brow was rais'd; Whate'er the grief his soul avow'd, He would not shrink before the crowd. BYRON'S Parisina. 9. The hardest trial of a generous mind, 10. Proud has been my fatal passion, Proud my injur'd heart shall be, Still shall prove me worthy thee. 11. That proud heart had been given to one Who sought it not to win, 12. And now she only strove to hide The burning shame within. AARON HILL. MRS. ROBINSON. MISS L. E. LANDON. And henceforth learn, Never your equals from your path to spurn; J. T. WATSON. 1. O, heaven! that such companions thou 'dst unfold, Where sits the offence, SHAKSPEARE. 2. Let the fault's punishment be deriv'd from thence. MIDDLETON. 3. He's a bad surgeon, that, for pity, spares The part corrupted, till the gangrene spread, And all the body perish; he that's merciful PURITY. (See INNOCENCE.) QUACKS. (See DISEASE.) RABBLE. (See Moв.) RAGE. (See ANGER.) RAINBOW. 1. Meantime, refracted from yon eastern cloud, RANDOLPH. THOMSON'S Seasons. |