24 ADVERSITY - MISFORTUNE. 5. 'Tis strange how many unimagin'd charges 6. Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, 7. I am not now in fortune's power; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction; With all the tender sufferance of a friend, BROWN. 10. Deserted in his utmost need By those his former bounty fed. OTWAY'S Orphan. DRYDEN. 11. Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue; Where patience, honour, sweet humanity, Calm fortitude, take root and strongly flourish. 12. Affliction is the good man's shining scene; MALLET. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 13. Misfortune does not always wait on vice ; Nor is success the constant guest of virtue. 14. I pray thee, deal with men in misery, Like one who may himself be miserable. HAVARD. HEYWOOD. 15. In this wild world the fondest and the best Are the most tried, most troubled and distress'd. 16. Aromatic plants bestow No spicy fragrance while they grow; 17. For every want, that stimulates the breast, Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest. 18. Each breast, however fortified, By courage, apathy, or pride, Has still one secret path for thee, CRABBE. GOLDSMITH. GOLDSMITH. MRS. HOLFORD'S Margaret of Anjou. Man's subtle foe-Adversity. 19. The good are better made by ill, As odours crush'd are better still. 20. The brave unfortunates are our best acquaintance; They show us virtue may be much distress'd, And give us their example how to suffer. 21. Though losses and crosses Be lessons right severe, There's wit there, ye'll get there, Ye'll find nae other where. 22. 'T was thine own genius gave the final blow, ROGERS. FRANCIS. BURNS. 26 ADVERSITY - MISFORTUNE. While the same plumage that had warmed his nest, BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 23. I have not quail'd to danger's brow When high and happy-need I now? BYRON'S Giaour. 24. Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Utter'd by friends, those prophets of the past, Own they foresaw that you would fall at last; 25. The rugged metal of the mine BYRON'S Don Juan. Must burn before its surface shine; BYRON'S Giaour. 26. What is the worst of woes that wait on age? BYRON'S Childe Harold. 27. From mighty wrongs to petty perfidy, Have I not seen what human things could do? From the loud roar of foaming calumny, BYRON'S Childe Harold. 28. A hermit, 'midst of crowds, I fain must stray BYRON. 29. The blackest ink of fate was sure my lot, And when fate writ my name, it made a blot. 30. Alone she sate-alone !-that worn-out word, So idly spoken and so coldly heard; 31. I Yet all that poets sing, and grief hath known, may not weep-I cannot sigh, A weight is pressing on my breast; The New Timon. ADVICE. N. P. WILLIS. 1. Let me entreat You to unfold the anguish of your heart; SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Direct not him whose way himself will choose; "Tis breath thou lack'st, and that breath wilt thou lose. 4. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep, As watchman to my heart. SHAKSPEARE. 5. Men counsel and speak comfort to that grief Fetter strong madness in a silken thread, SHAKSPEARE. 6. Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. SHAKSPEARE AFFECTION. 1. There is in life no blessing like affection; And bringeth down to earth its native heaven :— MISS L. E. LANDON. 2. Oh! there are looks and tones that dart 3. Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert. T. MOORE. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 4. Oh, sweet are the tones of affection sincere, When they come from the depth of the heart; 5. "T were sweet to kiss thy tears away, BULWER. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING 6. How cling we to a thing our hearts have nursed! |