54 ARGUMENT - SOPHISTRY. 2. Enjoy thy gay wit and false rhetoric, That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence; 3. Reproachful speech from either side 1 4. Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart, MILTON'S Comus. 5. He'd undertake to prove, by force GAY's Fables. GAY'S Fables. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. A man convinc'd against his will, Is of the same opinion still. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Now with fine phrase, and foppery of tongue, YOUNG. 8. In subtle sophistry's laborious forge. 9. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass, YOUNG. But true expression, like th' unchanging sun, POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 10. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, POPE'S Moral Essays. 11. Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, We find our tenets just the same at last. POPE'S Moral Essays. 12. But as some muskets do contrive it, And so much injur'd more his side, TRUMBULL'S M'Fingal. 13. The self-torturing sophist, wild Rousseau, 14. BYRON'S Childe Harold. He cast O'er erring deeds and thoughts a heav'nly hue. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 15. His speech was a fine sample, on the whole, 16. With temper calm and mild, And words of soften'd tone, BYRON'S Don Juan. He overthrows his neighbour's cause, Vicksburg Whig. 56 ARTIFICE-CANDOUR. 17. With neat and rounded phrase He tricks the shapeless thought; Vicksburg Whig. 1. ARTIFICE - CANDOUR. Make my breast Transparent as pure crystal, that the world, 2. Shallow artifice begets suspicion, 3. 4. 5. And, like a cobweb veil, but thinly shades Imperfect mischief! BUCKINGHAM. CONGREVE. Hast stung Confess and point the path which thou hast crept. O, fate of fools! officious in contriving, In executing, puzzled, lame, and lost. You talk to me in parables; CONGREVE. You may have known that I'm no wordy man: Honesty Needs no disguise nor ornament; be plain. OTWAY. OTWAY. 6. The brave do never shun the light; Just are their thoughts, and open are their tempers; Still are they found in the fair face of day, 7. "T is great, 't is manly to disdain disguise; ROWE. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 8. A man of sense can artifice disdain, As men of wealth may venture to go plain; YOUNG'S Love of Fame. ASSASSINATION - MURDER. 1. Will all Neptune's ocean wash this blood Clear from my hand? No, this my hand will rather The multitudinous seas incarnadine, Making this green one, red. SHAKSPEARE. 2. The great King of kings Hath in the table of his law commanded That thou shalt do no murder; wilt thou then SHAKSPEARE. 3. The tyrannous and bloody act is done; The most arch deed of piteous massacre That ever yet this land was guilty of. 4. Though in the trade of war I have slain men, To do no contriv'd murder; I lack iniquity SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 58 ASSOCIATES - COMPANY. 5. See his face is black and full of blood; His eyeballs further out than when he lived, And tugg'd for life, and was by strength subdued. 6. Blood, though it sleeps a time, yet never dies; The gods on murd'rers fix revengeful eyes. 7. Murder itself is past all expiation, SHAKSPEARE. CHAPMAN. 8. Is there a crime Goffe. Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul CIBBER. 9. Cease, triflers; would you have me feel remorse, And everlasting witness! whose unsinking I know not; but if thou seest what I am, I think thou wilt forgive him, whom his God |