234 ENJOYMENT-HAPPINESS, &c. 26. Too late I find how madly vain our toil 27. The highest hills are miles below the sky, And so far is the lightest heart below True happiness. 28. My life has been like summer skies When they are fair to view; BAILEY'S Festus. But there never yet were hearts or skies, Clouds might not wander through. 29. Pleasure's the only noble end, MRS. L. P. SMITH. To which all human powers should tend; 30. Gone-like a meteor, that o'er head Suddenly shines, and ere we've said "Look! look, how beautiful!"—'t is fled! MOORE. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 31. How deep, how thorough-felt the glow MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 32. For she hath liv'd with heart and soul alive Of her soft bosom cell, and cluster there. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 33. There are some hours that pass so soon, Our spell-touch'd hearts scarce know they end. 34. May thy soul with pleasure shine, CHARLES WOLFE. 35. Ah Pauline! who can gaze upon thee now, And watch thy cheek all beaming with delight, 36. May friendship open unto you The path of peace and holy love; May hope not too deceptive prove ;— J. T. WATSON. ENTERPRISE. (See ACTIVITY.) ENTHUSIASM-ZEAL. 1. No seared conscience is so fell 2. As that which has been burnt with zeal; For Christian charity's as well A great impediment to zeal, As zeal a pestilent disease To Christian charity and peace. Zeal and duty are not slow; But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. BUTLER. MILTON'S Paradise Regained. 236 3. ENVY EQUALITY. His zeal None seconded, as out of reason judg'd, MILTON'S Paradise Regained. 4. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, 5. On such a theme 't were impious to be calm; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here! COWPER. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had: The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 7. -With all the zeal POPE. BYRON'S Siege of Corinth. 8. And rash enthusiasm, in good society, Were nothing but a moral inebriety. BYRON'S Don Juan. 9. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. ENVY. (See CALUMNY.) EQUALITY-SUPERIORITY. 1. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame, GAY'S Fables. 2. Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade; Or, ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove? POPE'S Essay on Man. 3. Order is heaven's first law; and, this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. POPE'S Essay on Man. 4. None but thyself can be thy parallel. 5. To cope with thee, would be about as vain As for a brook to cope with ocean's flood. BYRON'S Don Juan. 6. As some fierce comet of tremendous size, POLLOK's Course of Time. 7. For mountains issue out of plains, and not BAILEY'S Festus. ERROR. 1. For he that once hath missèd the right way, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. More proselytes and converts use t'accrue BUTLER. 3. Even so, by tasting of that fruit forbid, Where they sought knowledge, they did error find; And to give passion eyes, made reason blind. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 4. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again: 1. W. C. BRYANT. ESTEEM. Love is not love, When it is mingled with respects, that stand SHAKSPEARE. 2. For all true love is grounded on esteem. BUCKINGHAM. 3. O, why is gentle love A stranger to that mind, Which pity and esteem can move, LORD LYTTLETON. 4. Take my esteem, if you on that can live; But, frankly, sir, 't is all I have to give. 5. She attracts me daily with her gentle virtues, So soft, and beautiful, and heavenly. DRYDEN. JAMES A. HILLHOUSE. |