29. There's nothing like maneuvering in season, Ye parents, who have daughters to dispose of, Especially if you have any reason 30. To think in maidenhood their lives will doze off, DAWES' Geraldine. When happy lovers meet Of their young hearts to tender wishes stirr'd, MRS. A. B. WELBY. 1. COWARDICE - FEAR. His hand did quake, And tremble like a leaf of aspen green, And troubled blood thro' his pale face was seen SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Thereat he smitten was, with great affright, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 3. Cowards die many times before their death; The valiant never taste of death but once. 4. And extreme fear can neither fight nor fly, But, coward-like, with trembling terror die. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 160 COWARDICE - FEAR. 5. And, though he posted e'er so fast, 6. Those that fly may fight again, Which he can never do that's slain; BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. Think not, coward, wit can hide the shame Of hearts, which, while they dare not strike for fear, 9. Desponding fear, of feeble fancies full, Weak and unmanly, weakens ev'ry pow'r. LORD BROOKE. THOMSON'S Seasons. 10. Grac'd with a sword, but worthier of a fan. Cowper. 11. My blood ran back, My shaking knees against each other knock'd— DRYDEN. 12. The wretch that fears to drown, will break thro' flames; . 13. Imagination frames events unknown, In wild, fantastic shapes of hideous ruin ; CIBBER. HANNAH MORE. 14. As mongrels bay the lion in a cage. 15. Must I consume my life-this little life, DR. JOHNSON. BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 16. It has a strange, quick jar upon the ear, This cocking of a pistol, when you know BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. And cheeks all pale, which, but an hour before, Blush'd at the praise of their own loveliness. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 18. Go-let thy less than woman's hand Assume the distaff-not the brand. 19. BYRON'S Bride of Abydos. Hope, fear, and love, Joy, doubt, and hate, may other spirits move, CRABBE. 1. CREDULITY-DOUBT. Our doubts are traitors, And make us lose the good we oft might win 2. Oh, how this tyrant, doubt, torments my SHAKSPEARE. breast! My thoughts, like birds, who, frighten'd from their nest, OTWAY. 162 CRITICISM-STYLE-TASTE. 3. Lest men suspect your tale untrue, Keep probability in view. 4. For when we risk no contradiction, 5. Or, indolent, to each extreme they fall, To trust in everything, or doubt of all. GAY'S Fables. GAY's Fables. POPE'S Essay on Man. 6. A daring infidel, (and such there are, From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge, Or pure heroical defect of thought,) Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. Your noblest natures are most credulous. 8. Security's blind nurse, the dream of fools, CHAPMAN. 9. And shall we own such judgment? No; as soon Seek roses in December, ice in June, Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff, Believe a woman, or an epitaph. MASON. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. CRITICISM-STYLE-TASTE. 1. Who shall dispute what the Reviewers say! Their word's sufficient; and to ask a reason, In such a state as theirs, is downright treason. CHURCHILL. 2. Critics to plays for the same end resort 3. On me, when dunces are satiric, CONGREVE. DEAN SWIFT. 4. Hot, noisy, envious, proud, the scribbling fry Burn, hiss and bounce, waste paper, ink, and die. 5. Let such teach others, who themselves excel, And censure freely, who have written well. YOUNG. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 6. Some have at first for wits, then poets pass'd; POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 7. A perfect judge will read each work of wit 8. Neglect the rule each verbal critic lays, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 9. Some to conceit alone their taste confine, And curious thoughts struck out at ev'ry line- POPE'S Essay on Criticism. |