4. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel. BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. I have been often dazzled by the blaze Of form, of feature, and of soul, display'd S. P. CHASE. PERSEVERANCE. (See IDLENESS.) PHILANTHROPY.- (See KINDNESS.) PHILOSOPHY. 1. I pray thee, peace; I will be flesh and blood; SHAKSPEARE. 2. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 3. How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 448 4. PHRENOLOGY. Philosophy consists not In airy schemes, or idle speculations: 5. Alas! had reason ever yet the power 6. Divine philosophy! by whose pure light THOMSON. WHITEHEAD. GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 7. Oh, who, that has ever had rapture complete, Would ask how we feel it, or why it is sweet? How rays are confus'd, or how particles fly 8. Through the medium refin'd of a glance or a sigh? Is there one, who but once would not rather have known it, Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, MOORE. BULWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make. SPENSER. 2. In vain we fondly strive to trace The soul's reflection in the face; In vain we dwell on lines and crosses, And many a sage and learned skull Has peep'd through windows dark and dull. 3. And yet, in spite of ridicule, and all The wit, which, Bumpo says, so often stirs him, A sharper and a Fowler thing than Gall MOORE. Be-Grimes him Savage-ly, and sorely Spurz-h(e)im. J. T. WATSON. PHYSICIAN.-(See DISEASE.) PITY. (See FORGIVENESS.) PLEASURE. (See ENJOYMENT.) POET-POETRY. 1. The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; And, as imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing SHAKSPEARE. 450 POET-POETRY. 2. I'd rather be a kitten, and cry, mew, Than one of those same metre ballad-mongers. 3. Who first found out that curse, T' imprison and confine his thoughts in verse, And make his reason to his rhyme submit. SHAKSPEARE. 4. As wine, that with its own weight runs, is best, 5. But those, that write in rhyme, still make 6. And rhyme the rudder is of verses, BUTLER. BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. With which, like ships, they steer their courses. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Read, meditate, reflect, grow wise - in vain ; Try every help, force fire from every spark; If heaven ne'er stamp'd you with the muses' mark. 8. Then, rising with Aurora's light, The muse invok'd, sit down to write. Enlarge, diminish, interline; Be mindful, when invention fails, To scratch your head, and bite your nails. AARON HILL. DEAN SWIFT. 9. Thou source of all my bliss, of all my woe, GOLDSMITH. 10. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 11. Even copious Dryden wanted, or forgot, The last and greatest art · the art to blot. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 12. Married to immortal verse, 13. There is a pleasure in poetic pains, That none but poets know. 14. And I have felt A passion that disturb'd me with the joy 15. 'Tis long disputed, whether poets claim From art or nature their best right to fame; MILTON. WORDSWORTH. WORDSWORTH. Are useless both; but when in friendship join'd, FRANCIS' Horace. 16. But he, the bard of every age and clime, And stamp'd with all the godhead in his mind. GIFFORD'S Juvenal. |