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Evangeline. Part i. 3.
And as she looked around, she saw how Death the consoler, Laying his hand upon many a heart, had healed it forever.
Evangeline. Part ii. 5.
God had sifted three kingdoms to find the wheat for this planting.[616-1]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Into a world unknown,--the corner-stone of a nation![616-2]
The Courtship of Miles Standish. iv.
Saint Augustine! well hast thou said, That of our vices we can frame A ladder, if we will but tread Beneath our feet each deed of shame.[616-3]
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The heights by great men reached and kept Were not attained by sudden flight, But they while their companions slept Were toiling upward in the night.
The Ladder of Saint Augustine.
The surest pledge of a deathless name Is the silent homage of thoughts unspoken.
The Herons of Elmwood.
He has singed the beard of the king of Spain.[616-4]
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Thoughts. Chap. x. 1.
We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart.
Thoughts. Chap. x. 1.
For as old age is that period of life most remote from infancy, who does not see that old age in this universal man ought not to be sought in the times nearest his birth, but in those most remote from it?[799:4]
Preface to the Treatise on Vacuum.
[799:1] Book i. chap. xxii.
[799:2] See Pope, page 315.
[799:3] See Pope, page 317.
[799:4] See Bacon, page 169.
NICHOLAS BOILEAU-DESPREAUX. 1636-1711.Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.[799:5]
The Art of Poetry. Canto i. Line 75.
[800]
Every age has its pleasures, its style of wit, and its own ways.
The Art of Poetry. Canto iii. Line 374.
He [Molière] pleases all the world, but cannot please himself.
Satire 2.
"There, take," says Justice, "take ye each a shell;
We thrive at Westminster on fools like you.
'T was a fat oyster! live in peace,—adieu."[800:1]
Epître ii.
[799:5] See Dryden, page 273.
[800:1] See Pope, page 334.
ALAIN RENÉ LE SAGE. 1668-1747.It may be said that his wit shines at the expense of his memory.[800:2]
Gil Blas. Book iii. Chap. xi.
I wish you all sorts of prosperity with a little more taste.
Gil Blas. Book vii. Chap. iv.
Isocrates was in the right to insinuate, in his elegant Greek expression, that what is got over the Devil's back is spent under his belly.[800:3]
Gil Blas. Book viii. Chap. ix.
Facts are stubborn things.[800:4]
Gil Blas. Book x. Chap. i.
Plain as a pike-staff.[800:5]
Gil Blas. Book xii. Chap. viii.
[800:2] See Sheridan, page 443.
[800:3] See Rabelais, page 773.
[800:4] See Smollett, page 392.
[800:5] See Middleton, page 172.
FRANCIS M. VOLTAIRE. 1694-1778.If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.[800:6]
Epître à l'Auteur du Livre des Trois Imposteurs. cxi.
The king [Frederic] has sent me some of his dirty linen to wash; I will wash yours another time.[800:7]
Reply to General Manstein.
Men use thought only as authority for their injustice, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts.[800:8]
Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (1763).
[801]
History is little else than a picture of human crimes and misfortunes.[801:1]
L'Ingénu. Chap. x. (1767.)
The first who was king was a fortunate soldier:
Who serves his country well has no need of ancestors.[801:2]
Merope. Act i. Sc. 3.
In the best of possible worlds the château of monseigneur the baron was the most beautiful of châteaux, and madame the best of possible baronesses.
Candide. Chap. i.
In this country [England] it is well to kill from time to time an admiral to encourage the others.
Candide. Chap. xxiii.
The superfluous, a very necessary thing.
Le Mondain. Line 21.
Crush the infamous thing.
Letter to d'Alembert, June 23, 1760.
There are truths which are not for all men, nor for all times.
Letter to Cardinal de Bernis, April 23, 1761.
The proper mean.[801:3]
Letter to Count d'Argental, Nov. 28, 1765.
It is said that God is always on the side of the heaviest battalions.[801:4]
Letter to M. le Riche, Feb. 6, 1770.
Love truth, but pardon error.
Discours sur l'Homme. Discours 3.
[800:6] See Tillotson, page 266.
[800:7] Voltaire writes to his niece Dennis, July 24, 1752, "Voilà le roi qui m'envoie son linge à blanchir."
[800:8] See Young, page 310.
[801:1] See Gibbon, page 430.
[801:2] See Scott, page 494.
Borrowed from Lefranc de Pompignan's "Didon."
[801:3] See Cowper, page 424.
[801:4] See Gibbon, page 430.
Bussy Rabutin: Lettres, iv. 91. Sévigné: Lettre à sa Fille, p. 202. Tacitus: Historia, iv. 17. Terence: Phormio, i. 4. 26.
MADAME DU DEFFAND. 1697-1784.He [Voltaire] has invented history.[801:5]
It is only the first step which costs.[801:6]
In reply to the Cardinal de Polignac.
[801:5] Fournier: L'Esprit dans l'Histoire, p. 191.
[801:6] Voltaire writes to Madame du Deffand, January, 1764, that one of her bon-mots is quoted in the notes of "La Pucelle," canto 1: "Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte."
[802]
JEAN JACQUES ROUSSEAU. 1712-1778.Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary:
She I love is far away.
Days of Absence.
GESTA ROMANORUM.[802:1]We read of a certain Roman emperor who built a magnificent palace. In digging the foundation, the workmen discovered a golden sarcophagus ornamented with three circlets, on which were inscribed, "I have expended; I have given; I have kept; I have possessed; I do possess; I have lost; I am punished. What I formerly expended, I have; what I gave away, I have."[802:2]
Tale xvi.
See how the world rewards its votaries.[802:3]
Tale xxxvi.
If the end be well, all is well.[802:4]
Tale lxvii.
Whatever you do, do wisely, and think of the consequences.
Tale ciii.
[802:1] The "Gesta Romanorum" is a collection of one hundred and eighty-one stories, first printed about 1473. The first English version appeared in 1824, translated by the Rev. C. Swan. (Bohn's Standard Library.)
[802:2] Richard Gough, in the "Sepulchral Monuments of Great Britain," gives this epitaph of Robert Byrkes, which is to be found in Doncaster Church, "new cut" upon his tomb in Roman capitals:—
Howe: Howe: who is heare:
I, Robin of Doncaster, and Margaret my feare.
That I spent, that I had;
That I gave, that I have;
That I left, that I lost.
A. D. 1579.
The following is the epitaph of Edward Courtenay, Earl of Devonshire, according to Cleaveland's "Genealogical History of the Family of Courtenay," p. 142:—
What we gave, we have;
What we spent, we had;
What we left, we lost.
[802:3] Ecce quomodo mundus suis servitoribus reddit mercedem (See how the world its veterans rewards).—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle 1, line 243.
[802:4] Si finis bonus est, totum bonum erit.—Probably the origin of the proverb, "All 's well that ends well."
[803]
VAUVENARGUES (Marquis of). 1715-1747.Great thoughts come from the heart.[803:1]
Maxim cxxvii.
[803:1] See Sidney, page 34.
MICHEL JEAN SEDAINE. 1717-1797.O Richard! O my king!
The universe forsakes thee!
Sung at the Dinner given to the French Soldiers in the Opera Salon at Versailles, Oct. 1, 1789.
PRINCE DE LIGNE. 1735-1814.The congress of Vienna does not walk, but it dances.[803:2]
[803:2] On of the Prince de Ligne's speeches that will last forever.—Edinburgh Review, July 1890, p. 244.
GOETHE. 1749-1832.Who never ate his bread in sorrow,
Who never spent the darksome hours
Weeping, and watching for the morrow,—
He knows ye not, ye gloomy Powers.
Wilhelm Meister. Book ii. Chap. xiii.
Know'st thou the land where the lemon-trees bloom,
Where the gold orange glows in the deep thicket's gloom,
Where a wind ever soft from the blue heaven blows,
And the groves of laurel and myrtle and rose?[803:3]
Wilhelm Meister. Book iii. Chap. i.
Art is long, life short;[803:4] judgment difficult, opportunity transient.
Wilhelm Meister. Book vii. Chap. ix.
The sagacious reader who is capable of reading between these lines what does not stand written in them, but is nevertheless implied, will be able to form some conception.
Autobiography. Book xviii. Truth and Beauty.
[803:3] See Byron, page 549.
[803:4] See Chaucer, page 6.
[804]
MADAME ROLAND. 1754-1793.O Liberty! Liberty! how many crimes are committed in thy name![804:1]
[804:1] Macaulay: Essay on Mirabeau.
BERTRAND BARÈRE. 1755-1841.The tree of liberty only grows when watered by the blood of tyrants.
Speech in the Convention Nationale, 1792.
It is only the dead who do not return.
Speech, 1794.
SCHILLER. 1759-1805.Against stupidity the very gods
Themselves contend in vain.
The Maid of Orleans. Act iii. Sc. 6.
The richest monarch in the Christian world;
The sun in my own dominions never sets.[804:2]
Don Carlos. Act i. Sc. 6.
[804:2] See Scott, page 495.
JOSEPH ROUGET DE L'ISLE. 1760- ——.Ye sons of France, awake to glory!
Hark! hark! what myriads bid you rise!
Your children, wives, and grandsires hoary,
Behold their tears and hear their cries!
The Marseilles Hymn.
To arms! to arms! ye brave!
The avenging sword unsheathe!
March on! march on! all hearts resolved
On victory or death!
The Marseilles Hymn.
[805]
A. F. F. VON KOTZEBUE. 1761-1819.There is another and a better world.[805:1]
The Stranger. Act i. Sc. 1.
[805:1] Translated by N. Schink, London, 1799.
J. G. VON SALIS. 1762-1834.Into the silent land!
Ah, who shall lead us thither?
The Silent Land.
Who in life's battle firm doth stand
Shall bear hope's tender blossoms
Into the silent land!
The Silent Land.
JOSEPH FOUCHÉ. 1763-1820."It is more than a crime; it is a political fault,"[805:2]—words which I record, because they have been repeated and attributed to others.
Memoirs of Fouché.
Death is an eternal sleep.
Inscription placed by his orders on the Gates of the Cemeteries in 1794.
[805:2] Commonly quoted, "It is worse than a crime,—it is a blunder," and attributed to Talleyrand.
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