EXTRAVAGANCE. 1. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. 2. We sacrifice to dress, till household joys 3. Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. YOUNG. COWPER'S Task. BYRON'S Don Juan. 4. In my young days they lent me cash that way, Which I found very troublesome to pay. EXTREMES. BYRON'S Don Juan. 1. These violent delights have violent ends And in the taste confounds the appetite. 2. Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen ; SHAKSPEARE. A sober moderation stands secure, No violent extremes endure. 3. Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. ALEYN. HERRICK. 250 EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. 4. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects: As extreme hatred; and too violent rigour Not to the sun, for they do shine by night; Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever :— Whose light doth lighten all things here we see. 2. And, as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd by her eye. 3. Her eyes, in heaven, SPENSER'S Sonnets. SHAKSPEARE. Would through the airy region stream so bright, 4. Her eyes, like marygold, had sheath'd their light, 5. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive: SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 7. Soft as the down, that swells the cygnet's nest. 8. Her tresses, loose behind, SHAKSPEARE. Play on her neck, and wanton in the wind; 9. In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace, 10. In one soft look what language lies! 11. Her eyes outshine the radiant beams 12. By your eyes of heavenly blue, Your cheeks, where rose and lily blend, SHENSTONE. GAY'S Dione. TICKELL DIBDIN. BURNS. The Padlock-A Farce. 13. Which melted in love, and which kindled in war. 14. From the glance of her eye Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney. CAMPBELL. MISS OWENSON. 15. With sweetness and beauty thy daughters arise, 252 EYES-FEATURES-LIPS, &c. 16. Down her white neck, long, floating auburn curls, The least of which would set ten poets raving. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; BYRON'S Don Juan. 18. An eye's an eye, and, whether black or blue, Is no great matter, so 't is in request; "T is nonsense to dispute about a hue; The kindest may be taken as the best. BYRON'S Don Juan. 19. A pure, transparent, pale, and radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase. BYRON'S Don Juan. 20. Her eye's dark charm 't were vain to tell; But gaze on that of the gazelle, BYRON'S Giaour. 21. Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spoke again. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 22. And the wild sparkle of her eye seem'd caught 23. And eyes disclos'd what eyes alone can tell. DR. DWIGHT. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 25. And hate's last lightning quivers from his eyes. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 26. There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, Might furnish crowns for all the queens of earth. BAILEY'S Festus. 27. With lightsome brow, and beaming eyes, and bright, Long, glorious locks, which drop upon thy cheek, Like gold-hued cloud-flakes on the rosy morn. Thy blue eyes BAILEY'S Festus. Steal o'er the heart like sunshine o'er the skies; That to the inmost spirit wins its way; Theirs are the beams that full upon you roll, MRS. A. B. WELBY. 29. The bright black eye, the melting blue- That wears for me the sweetest smile. O. W. HOLMES. 30. Sweet, pouting lips, whose colour mocks the rose, R. H. WILDE's Tasso's Sonnets. 31. Yet well that eye could flash resentment's rays, 32. Let other men bow, and utter the vow Of devotion and love without end, C. F. HOFFMAN. As the sparkling black eye in triumph draws nigh, But give me the eye, thro' which I can spy To the depths of a heart warm and true; Whose colour may vie with the hue of the sky,- J. T. WATSON. |