1. 2. ETERNITY-FUTURITY. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come, Beyond is all abyss, SHAKSPEARE. Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 3. Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know 4. Sure there is none but fears a future state; DRYDEN. 5. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings— DRYDEN. Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! The wide, th' unbounded prospect lies before me, 'But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. ADDISON'S Cato. 6. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state. 7. Oh! in that future let us think POPE'S Essay on Man. To hold each heart the heart that shares; And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! BYRON. 240 ETIQUETTE-POLITENESS, &c. 8. Shall I be left forgotten in the dust, When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive! Bid him, though doom'd to perish, hope to live? Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive With disappointment, penury and pain? No: heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive, And man's majestic beauty bloom again, Bright thro' the eternal years of Love's triumphant reign. BEATTIE'S Minstrel ETIQUETTE-POLITENESS-RUDENESS. 1. Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 2. He was the mildest manner'd man, SHAKSPEARE. BYRON'S Don Juan. 3. To all she was polite without parade; In such a sort as cannot leave behind BYRON'S Don Juan. 4. There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. BYRON'S Don Juan. J. T. WATSON. 6. All smiles, and bows, and courtesy was he. EVENING.-(See DAY.) 1: EXAMPLE. 1. No age hath been, since Nature first began Which, more than threatful laws, have men inclin'd; 2. A fault doth never with remorse 3. For as the light Mirror for Magistrates. Not only serves to show, but renders us In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but do to others give 4. "Tis thus the spirit of a single mind BRANDON. CHAPMAN. Makes that of multitudes take one direction, BYRON'S Don Juan. 242 EXCELLENCE-MERIT-WORTH. EXCELLENCE-MERIT-WORTH. 1. The sweet eye-glances, that like arrows glide, Cannot expressèd be by any art. SPENSER'S Sonnets. 2. Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPEARE. 4. A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, 5. More pity that the eagle should be mew'd, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd. MILTON. 7. Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine. POPE. 8. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. POPE. 9. Form'd by the converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. POPE. 10. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. 11. Let envy snarl, let slander rail; 12. In vain malicious tongues assail: From virtue's shield (secure from wound,) A matchless pair; With equal virtue form'd, and equal grace, POPE. GAY's Fables. 13. Ease in your mien, and sweetness in your 14. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. THOMSON. TICKELL. GRAY'S Elegy. 15. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; 16. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. Describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 17. For she was good as she was fair, None, none on earth above her- To see her, was to love her. |