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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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We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.[289:2]
Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes.
Verses to his Friend under Affliction.
[289:2] See Dryden, page 277.
JONATHAN SWIFT.โโ1667-1745.I 've often wish'd that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year;
A handsome house to lodge a friend;
A river at my garden's end;
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land set out to plant a wood.
Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6.
So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.[289:3]
Poetry, a Rhapsody.
[290]
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
Poetry, a Rhapsody.
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.
Poetry, a Rhapsody.
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed ad infinitum.[290:1]
Poetry, a Rhapsody.
Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach.
A college joke to cure the dumps.
Cassinus and Peter.
'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery 's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
Cadenus and Vanessa.
โโHail fellow, well met.[290:2]
My Lady's Lamentation.
โโBig-endians and small-endians.[290:3]
Gulliver's Travels. Part i. Chap. iv. Voyage to Lilliput.
โโAnd he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of politicians put together.
Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Chap. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag.
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โโHe had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
Gulliver's Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa.
โโIt is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the first.
Tale of a Tub. Dedication.
โโSeamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent hands upon the ship.[291:1]
Tale of a Tub. Preface.
โโBread is the staff of life.[291:2]
Tale of a Tub. Preface.
โโBooks, the children of the brain.
Tale of a Tub. Sect. i.
โโAs boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.[291:3]
Tale of a Tub. Sect. vii.
โโHe made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.
Tale of a Tub. Sect. xi.
โโHow we apples swim![291:4]
Brother Protestants.
โโThe two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.
Battle of the Books.
โโThe reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
Thoughts on Various Subjects.
โโCensure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
Thoughts on Various Subjects.
โโA nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
Thoughts on Various Subjects.
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โโIf Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scoundrel.
Letter to Miss Vanbromrigh, Aug. 12, 1720.
โโNot die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729.
โโA penny for your thoughts.[292:1]
Introduction to Polite Conversation.
โโDo you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโThe sight of you is good for sore eyes.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโ'T is as cheap sitting as standing.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโI hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโI won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโShe 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโShe looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.[292:2]
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโIf it had been a bear it would have bit you.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโShe wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโI mean you lieโunder a mistake.[292:3]
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโLord M.โโWhat religion is he of?
โโLord Sp.โโWhy, he is an Anythingarian.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue i.
โโHe was a bold man that first eat an oyster.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโThat is as well said as if I had said it myself.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโYou must take the will for the deed.[292:4]
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
[293]
โโFingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโShe has more goodness in her little finger than he has in his whole body.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโLord! I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโThey say a carpenter 's known by his chips.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโThe best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.[293:1]
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโI 'll give you leave to call me anything, if you don't call me "spade."
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโMay you live all the days of your life.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโI have fed like a farmer: I shall grow as fat as a porpoise.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโI always like to begin a journey on Sundays, because I shall have the prayers of the Church to preserve all that travel by land or by water.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโI know Sir John will go, though he was sure it would rain cats and dogs.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโI thought you and he were hand-in-glove.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue ii.
โโ'T is happy for him that his father was before him.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโThere is none so blind as they that won't see.[293:2]
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโShe watches him as a cat would watch a mouse.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโShe pays him in his own coin.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโThere was all the world and his wife.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
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โโSharp 's the word with her.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโThere 's two words to that bargain.
Polite Conversation. Dialogue iii.
โโI shall be like that tree,โI shall die at the top.
Scott's Life of Swift.[294:1]
[289:3] As geographers, Sosius, crowd into the edges of their maps parts of the world which they do not know about, adding notes in the margin to the effect that beyond this lies nothing but sandy deserts full of wild beasts and unapproachable bogs.โPlutarch: Theseus.
[290:1]
Great fleas have little fleas upon their backs to bite 'em,
And little fleas have lesser fleas, and so ad infinitum.
And the great fleas themselves, in turn, have greater fleas to go on;
While these again have greater still, and greater still, and so on.
De Morgan: A Budget of Paradoxes, p. 377.
[290:2] Rowland: Knave of Hearts (1612). Ray: Proverbs. Tom Brown: Amusement, viii.
[290:3] As the political parties of Whig and Tory are pointed out by the high and low heels of the Lilliputians (Framecksan and Hamecksan), those of Papist and Protestant are designated under the Big-endians and Small-endians.
[291:1] In Sebastian Munster's "Cosmography" there is a cut of a ship to which a whale was coming too close for her safety, and of the sailors throwing a tub to the whale, evidently to play with. This practice is also mentioned in an old prose translation of the "Ship of Fools."โSir James Mackintosh: Appendix to the Life of Sir Thomas More.
[291:2] See Mathew Henry, page 283.
[291:3] Till they be bobbed on the tails after the manner of sparrows.โRabelais: book ii. chap. xiv.
[291:4] Ray: Proverbs. Mallet: Tyburn.
[292:1] See Heywood, page 16.
[292:2] See Heywood, page 13.
[292:3] You lieโunder a mistake.โShelley: Magico Prodigioso, scene 1 (a translation of Calderon).
[292:4] The will for deed I doe accept.โDu Bartas: Divine Weeks and Works, third day, week ii. part 2.
The will for the deed.โCibber: The Rival Fools, act iii.
[293:1]
Use three physicians
Still: first, Dr. Quiet;
Next, Dr. Merryman,
And Dr. Dyet.
Regimen Sanitatis Salernitanum (edition 1607).
[293:2] See Mathew Henry, page 283.
[294:1] When the poem of "Cadenus and Vanessa" was the general topic of conversation, some one said, "Surely that Vanessa must be an extraordinary woman that could inspire the Dean to write so finely upon her." Mrs. Johnson smiled, and answered that "she thought that point not quite so clear; for it was well known the Dean could write finely upon a broomstick."โJohnson: Life of Swift.
WILLIAM CONGREVE.โโ1670-1729.Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast,
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned,
Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned.[294:2]
The Mourning Bride. Act iii. Sc. 8.
For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds,
And though a late, a sure reward succeeds.
The Mourning Bride. Act v. Sc. 12.
If there 's delight in love, 't is when I see
That heart which others bleed for, bleed for me.
The Way of the World. Act iii. Sc. 12.
โโFerdinand Mendez Pinto was but a type of thee, thou liar of the first magnitude.
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 5.
โโI came up stairs into the world, for I was born in a cellar.[294:3]
Love for Love. Act ii. Sc. 7.
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โโHannibal was a very pretty fellow in those days.
The Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Thus grief still treads upon the heels of pleasure;
Married in haste, we may repent at leisure.[295:1]
The Old Bachelor. Act v. Sc. 1.
Defer not till to-morrow to be wise,
To-morrow's sun to thee may never rise.
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