Princes have but their titles for their glories, They often feel a world of restless cares: Sorrow conceal'd, like an oven stopp'd, -Shakspere. Titus Andronicus (Marcus), Act II., Sc. V. Past sorrows, let us moderately lament them ; For those to come, seek wisely to prevent them. -John Webster. The Duchess of Malfi (Duchess), Act. III., Sc. II. In much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. -Ecclesiastes, Ch. I., ver. 18. Gnarling sorrow hath less power to bite To show an unfelt sorrow, is an office -Shakspere. Macbeth (Malcolm), Act. II., This is truth the poet * sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. -Tennyson. Locksley Hall. Bring down my gray hairs with sorrow to the grave. -Genesis, Ch. XLII., ver. 38. Love nursed among pleasures is faithless as they, But the love born of sorrow, like sorrow is true! -T. Moore. Irish Melodies, In the Morning of Life. (I will instruct my sorrows to be proud; Grief makes one hour ten. -Shakspere. Richard II. (Bolingbroke), Act I., Sc. III. Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters are seamed with scars; martyrs have put on their coronation robes glittering with fire, and through their tears have the sorrowful first seen the gates of heaven. -Chapin. *Dante. Inferno, Can. V., line 121. Sorrow is a kind of rust of the soul, which every new idea contributes in its passage to scour away. It is the putrefaction of stagnant life, and is remedied by exercise and motion. -Dr. S. Johnson. The Rambler, No. 47. Sorrow, long-indulg'd and slow, -Langhorne. Hymn to Humanity, St. 2. The vulgar falls, and none laments his fate, Sorrow has hardly leisure for the great. -Rowe. Lucan's Pharsalia, Bk. IV. 'Tis better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, -Shakspere. Henry VIII. (Anne Bullen), He well repents that will not sin, yet can ; (Tis held that) sorrow makes us wise. -Tennyson. In Memoriam, CVIII. Sorrow More akin to earthly things, Joy, bright stranger, breaks the strings. Sorrow more beautiful than beauty's self. Sorrow that is couch'd in seeming gladness, Is like the mirth fate turns to sudden sadness. -Shakspere. Troilus and Cressida (Troilus)„ Act I., Sc. I. Sorrow, the way to death. -Keats. Endymion, 1. Renunciation remains sorrow, though a sorrow borne willingly. -George Eliot. The Mill on the Floss, Bk. IV., Ch. III. Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat, - Wither. Poem on Christmas. No wringing of the hands and knocking the breast, or wishing one's self unborn; all which are but the ceremonies of sorrow, the pomp and ostentation of an effeminate grief, which speak not so much the greatness of the misery as the smallness of the mind. -South. Light griefs do speak, while sorrow's tongue is bound. -Seneca. For the external expressions and vent of sorrow, we know that there is a certain pleasure in weeping; it is the discharge of a big and swelling grief, of a full and strangling discontent; and therefore he that never had such a burden upon his heart as to give him opportunity thus to ease it has one pleasure in this world yet to come. -South. In wooing sorrow let's be brief, Since, wedding it, there is such length in grief. -Shakspere. Richard II. (Richard), Act V., Sc. I. |