3. Each was the other's mirror, and but read BYRON. VARIETY. 1. Wherefore did nature pour her bounties forth MILTON'S Comus. 2. The earth was made so various, that the mind 3. Variety's the source of joy below, 4. COWPER'S Task. From which still fresh revolving pleasures flow; GAY'S Epistles. That beats the pathless void, but pours new notes, AARON HILL. 5. Countless the various species of mankind, No general object of desire is known; Each has his will, and each pursues his own. GIFFORD'S Perseus. 1. They seek for rule, supremacy, and sway, When they are bound to serve, love, and obey. 2. A wife! Ah, gentle deities! can he Who has a wife, e'er feel adversity? SHAKSPEARE. POPE. 3. You are my true and honourable wife; As dear to me as are the ruddy drops That visit my sad heart. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, 5. She who ne'er answers till a husband cools, 6. Think you, if Laura had been Petrarch's wife, He would have written sonnets all his life? SHAKSPEARE. POPE. BYRON'S Don Juan. 7. When envy's sneer would coldly blight his name, And busy tongues are sporting with his fame, 8. To share existence with her, and to gain Sparks from her love's electrifying chain. 9. When on thy bosom I recline, Enraptur'd still to call thee mine, To call thee mine for life, I glory in the sacred ties, Which modern wits and fools despise, Of husband and of wife. CAMPBELL. LINDLEY MURRAY. 500 WINE-WINTER, &c. 10. Say, shall I love the fading beauty less, Whose spring-time radiance has been wholly mine? In youth, in age thine own So wither'd and so wild in their attire, That look not like the inhabitants o' the earth, And yet are on't. SHAKSPEARE. 2. How now, you secret, black, and midnight hags? What is 't you do? SHAKSPEARE. 3. Ye spirits of the unbounded universe! Whom I have sought in darkness and in shade, - ye, to whom the tops. In subtler essence Of mountains inaccessible are haunts, And earth's and ocean's caves familiar things I call upon ye, by the written charm Which gives me power upon you-rise! appear! BYRON'S Manfred. 1. WOMAN. For several virtues I have liked several women; never any With so full a soul, but some defect in her SHAKSPEARE. 2. We cannot fight for love, as men may do; We should be woo'd, and were not made to woo. SHAKSPEARE. 3. I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so, because I think him so. SHAKSPEARE. 4. For women first were made for men, BUTLER'S Hudibras. 5. In men we various ruling passions find; POPE'S Moral Essays. 6. When love once pleads admission to our hearts, In spite of all the virtue we can boast, ADDISON'S Cato. 7. Seek to be good, but aim not to be great: LORD LYTTLETON. |