2. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; SHAKSPEARE. 4. Lean abstinence, pale grief, and haggard care, The dire attendants of forlorn despair. 5. So farewell, hope, and with hope farewell fear; PATTISON. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 6. My loss is such as cannot be repair'd, 7. Talk not of comfort-'t is for lighter ills; I will indulge my sorrow, and give way To all the pangs and fury of despair. DRYDEN. ADDISON'S Cato. 8. But desperate is their doom whom doubt has driven BEATTIE'S Minstrel. 9. Mine after-life! what is mine after-life? My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! A hopeless darkness settles o'er my fate! JOANNA BAILLIE. 10. Alas! the breast that inly bleeds, 11. Go, when the hunter's hand hath wrung But soothe not, mock not my distress! BYRON'S Giaour. BYRON'S Giaour. 12. Despair defies even despotism; there is 13. BYRON'S Two Foscari. My mother earth! And thou, fresh breaking day! and you, ye mountains! Art a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart! 14. My solitude is solitude no more, BYRON'S Manfred. But peopled with the furies; I have gnash'd BYRON'S Manfred. 15. They, who have nothing more to fear, may well BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 16. Hope is a willing slave-despair is free. 17. One long, loud shriek swell'd on the air, R. DAWES. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 18. She stands, as stands the stricken deer Check'd midway in the fearful chase, The gaunt, grey robber, baying near 19. The fond illusions I have cherish'd- 20. What next? I know not, do not care- J. G. WHITTIER. J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. DESTINY-FATE- NECESSITY. 1. Who, then, can strive with strong necessity, That holds the world in his still changing state? SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. What fate imposes, men must needs abide; It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 3. "T is necessity SHAKSPEARE. To which the gods must yield; and I obey, BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 4. Alas! what stay is there in human state, DRYDEN. 192 DESTRUCTION - RUIN. 5. Fatal necessity is never known, 6. When fear admits no hope of safety, then Necessity makes dastards valiant men. LORD BROOKE. 7. Well, well—the world must turn upon its axis, 8. We are the victims of its iron rule, 9. HERRICK. BYRON'S Don Juan. The warm and beating human heart its tool; Fate is above us all; MISS LANDON. We struggle, but what matters our endeavour? MISS LANDON. 10. While warmer souls command, nay, make their fate, Thy fate made thee, and forc'd thee to be great. MOORE. DESTRUCTION-RUIN. 1. See the wide waste of all-devouring years! POPE'S Moral Essays 2. They tore away some weeds, 't is true, But all the flowers were ravish'd too. MOORE. 3. High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 4. Their sceptres broken and their swords in rust. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 5. Where her high steeples whilom used to stand, SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. DETERMINATION-RESOLUTION, &c. 1. Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, 2. That shuns the hive, because the bees have stings. Experience teacheth`us That resolution's a sole help at need. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE 3. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; For what I will, I will—and there's an end. 5. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. SHAKSPEARE. |