2. I took it for a fairy vision Of some gay creatures of the element, SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 3. And now they throng the moonlight glade, Above-below-on every side, 4. Their little minim forms array'd In all the tricksy pomp of fairy pride! DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. The palace of the sylphid queen- DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 5. Her mantle was the purple roll'd DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 6. Their harps are of the amber shade, That hides the blush of waking day, And every gleamy string is made Of silvery moonshine's lengthen'd ray. DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 7. But she led him to the palace gate, And call'd the sylphs who hover'd there, 8. As ever ye saw a bubble rise, DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. And shine with a thousand changing dyes, 9. He put his acorn-helmet on; DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. It was plum'd of the silk of the thistle-down; Was once the wild bees' golden vest; His cloak, of a thousand mingled dyes, His shield was the shell of a lady-bug queen, And the quivering lance which he brandish'd bright, 10. Swift he bestrode his fiery steed; DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. blue; He bared his blade of the bent grass The fiery tail of the rocket-star. DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 1. True faith and reason are the soul's two eyes; And sometimes both are clos'd, and neither see. 2. Faith lights us through the dark to deity; QUARLES. Whilst, without sight, we witness that she shows More God than in his works our eyes can see, Though none, but by those works, the Godhead knows. SIR W. DAVENANT. 3. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. POPE'S Essay on Man. 4. Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. Death's terror is the mountain faith removes, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. Fond as we are, and justly fond of faith, Reason, we grant, demands our first regard; YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 8. Vital principle, which keeps my heart Firm, 'mid the pressure of a thousand ills, Mingling with bliss the bitter cup it fills. MRS. S. MOWBRAY. FALSEHOOD-TRUTH - SINCERITY 1. He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 2. I cannot hide what I am: I must be CowPER. Sad when I have a cause, and smile at no man's 3. This, above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. SHAKSPEARE. 4. In many looks the false heart's history SHAKSPEARE. Is writ, in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange. SHAKSPEARE. 5. Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose is fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live. SHAKSPEARE. 258 FALSEHOOD-TRUTH, &c. 6. I think good thoughts, while others write good words, 7. The man of pure and simple heart What he says SHAKSPEARE. GAY'S Fables. 8. You may believe, and pawn your soul upon it. SHIRLEY. 9. "Twixt truth and error there's this diff'rence known, Error is fruitful, truth is only one. HERRICK. 10. Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain C. JOHNSON. 11. Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips. Shame on the policy that first began To tamper with the heart, to hide its thoughts! 12. When fiction rises, pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; 13. The sages say, dame Truth delights to dwell,- HAVARD. CHURCHILL. DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. |