6. When I think of my own native land, In a moment I seem to be there; But alas! recollection at hand Soon hurries me back to despair! CowPER. 7. Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold, Nor friends, nor sacred home. THOMSON. 8. Think'st thou that I could bear to part BYRON'S Bride of Abydos. 9. Far I go where fate may lead me, Where no stranger's ear shall heed me, 10. Tho' fate, my girl, may bid us part, 11. And canst thou think, because we part 12. 'Tis hard to be parted from those With whom we for ever could dwell; T. MOORE. When perhaps we are saying farewell-forever! MRS. OPIE. 13. When absent from her whom my soul holds most dear, In this bosom what anguish, what hope, and what fear, BRAHAM. A few short months-tho' short, they will be long Without thy dear society: but yet We must endure it, and our love will be The fonder after parting-it will grow Intenser in our absence, and again Burn with a tender glow when I return. JAMES G. PERCIVAL. 16. Oh Absence! by thy stern decree, Is fill'd with doubts and fears! Thy days like tedious weeks do seem, J. T. WATSON. ACTION. 1. Whilst timorous knowledge stands considering, DANIEL. 2. Good actions crown themselves with lasting bays; Who well deserves needs not another's praise. HEATH. 3. If thou dost ill, the joy fades, not the pains; If well, the pain doth fade,—the joy remains. G. HERBERT. 16 ACTIVITY- ENTERPRISE. 4. The body sins not; 't is the will That makes the action good or ill. HERRICK. 5. Our unsteady actions cannot be Manag'd by rules of strict philosophy. ACTIVITY-ENTERPRISE. SIR R. HOWARD. 1. If it were done, when 't is done, then, 't is well That it were done quickly. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, SHAKSPEARE. 3. Let's take the instant by the forward top; 4. 5. How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant The keen spirit SHAKSPEARE Seizes the prompt occasion,-makes the thoughts 6. My days, though few, have pass'd below THOMSON. HANNAH MORE. BYRON'S Giaour. 7. Act! for in action are wisdom and glory; Fame, immortality-these are its crown; Would'st thou illumine the tablets of story?— Build on achievements thy doom of renown. From the German. 8. Seize, mortals, seize the transient hour: 1. Look to the players; see them well bestow'd: They are the abstract and brief chroniclers of the times. 2. They say we live by vice; indeed 'tis true; As the physicians by diseases do, Only to cure them. 3. SHAKSPEARE. RANDOLPH. Boldly I dare say There has been more by us in some one play RANDOLPH. 18 ACTORS-DRAMA - THEATRE. 4. When, with mock majesty and fancied power, 5. Whose every look and gesture was a joke 6. TICKELL. BLAIR'S Grave. What we hear With weaker passion will affect the heart, FRANCIS' Horace. 7. Lo, where the stage, the poor, degraded stage, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 8. Where one base scene shall turn more souls to shame, Than ten of Channing's Lectures can reclaim. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. 9. Where mincing dancers sport tight pantalets, And turn fops' heads while turning pirouettes. 10. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. And turn from gentle Juliet's woe, SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. |