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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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[435:2] Usually quoted, "Few die and none resign."
[436:1] See Appendix, page 859.
JOSIAH QUINCY, Jr.โโ1744-1775.โโBlandishments will not fascinate us, nor will threats of a "halter" intimidate. For, under God, we are determined that wheresoever, whensoever, or howsoever we shall be called to make our exit, we will die free men.
Observations on the Boston Port Bill, 1774.
CHARLES DIBDIN.โโ1745-1814.There 's a sweet little cherub that sits up aloft,
To keep watch for the life of poor Jack.
Poor Jack.
Did you ever hear of Captain Wattle?
He was all for love, and a little for the bottle.
Captain Wattle and Miss Roe.
His form was of the manliest beauty,
His heart was kind and soft;
Faithful below he did his duty,
But now he 's gone aloft.
Tom Bowling.
For though his body 's under hatches,
His soul has gone aloft.
Tom Bowling.
Spanking Jack was so comely, so pleasant, so jolly,
Though winds blew great guns, still he 'd whistle and sing;
Jack loved his friend, and was true to his Molly,
And if honour gives greatness, was great as a king.
The Sailor's Consolation.[436:2]
[436:2] A song with this title, beginning, "One night came on a hurricane," was written by William Pitt, of Malta, who died in 1840.
[437]
HANNAH MORE.โโ1745-1833.To those who know thee not, no words can paint!
And those who know thee, know all words are faint!
Sensibility.
Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.
Sensibility.
In men this blunder still you find,โ
All think their little set mankind.
Florio. Part i.
Small habits well pursued betimes
May reach the dignity of crimes.
Florio. Part i.
LORD STOWELL.โโ1745-1836.โโA dinner lubricates business.
Life of Johnson (Boswell). Vol. viii. p. 67, note.
โโThe elegant simplicity of the three per cents.[437:1]
Lives of the Lord Chancellors (Campbell). Vol. x. Chap. 212.
[437:1] The sweet simplicity of the three per cents.โDisraeli (Earl Beaconsfield): Endymion.
SIR WILLIAM JONES.โโ1746-1794.Than all Bocara's vaunted gold,
Than all the gems of Samarcand.
A Persian Song of Hafiz.
Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.[437:2]
A Persian Song of Hafiz.
[438]
On parent knees, a naked new-born child,
Weeping thou sat'st while all around thee smiled;
So live, that sinking in thy last long sleep,
Calm thou mayst smile, while all around thee weep.
From the Persian.
What constitutes a state?
โ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.
Men who their duties know,
But know their rights, and knowing, dare maintain.
โ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.โโโ.
And sovereign law, that state's collected will,
O'er thrones and globes elate,
Sits empress, crowning good, repressing ill.[438:1]
Ode in Imitation of Alcรฆus.
Seven hours to law, to soothing slumber seven,
Ten to the world allot, and all to heaven.[438:2]
[437:2]
'T was he that ranged the words at random flung,
Pierced the fair pearls and them together strung.
Eastwick: Anvari Suhaili. (Translated from Firdousi.)
[438:1] Neither walls, theatres, porches, nor senseless equipage, make states, but men who are able to rely upon themselves.โAristides: Orations (Jebb's edition), vol. i. (trans. by A. W. Austin).
By Themistocles alone, or with very few others, does this saying appear to be approved, which, though Alcรฆus formerly had produced, many afterwards claimed: "Not stones, nor wood, nor the art of artisans, make a state; but where men are who know how to take care of themselves, these are cities and walls."โIbid. vol. ii.
[438:2] See Coke, page 24.
JOHN LOGAN.โโ1748-1788.Thou hast no sorrow in thy song,
No winter in thy year.
To the Cuckoo.
Oh could I fly, I 'd fly with thee!
We 'd make with joyful wing
Our annual visit o'er the globe,
Companions of the spring.
To the Cuckoo.
[439]
JONATHAN M. SEWALL.โโ1748-1808.No pent-up Utica contracts your powers,
But the whole boundless continent is yours.
Epilogue to Cato.[439:1]
[439:1] Written for the Bow Street Theatre, Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
JOHN EDWIN.โโ1749-1790.A man's ingress into the world is naked and bare,
His progress through the world is trouble and care;
And lastly, his egress out of the world, is nobody knows where.
If we do well here, we shall do well there:
I can tell you no more if I preach a whole year.[439:2]
The Eccentricities of John Edwin (second edition), vol. i. p. 74. London, 1791.
[439:2] These lines Edwin offers as heads of a "sermon." Longfellow places them in the mouth of "The Cobbler of Hagenau," as a "familiar tune." See "The Wayside Inn, part ii. The Student's Tale."
JOHN TRUMBULL.โโ1750-1831.But optics sharp it needs, I ween,
To see what is not to be seen.
McFingal. Canto i. Line 67.
But as some muskets so contrive it
As oft to miss the mark they drive at,
And though well aimed at duck or plover,
Bear wide, and kick their owners over.
McFingal. Canto i. Line 93.
As though there were a tie
And obligation to posterity.
We get them, bear them, breed, and nurse:
What has posterity done for us
[440]That we, lest they their rights should lose,
Should trust our necks to gripe of noose?
McFingal. Canto ii. Line 121.
No man e'er felt the halter draw,
With good opinion of the law.
McFingal. Canto iii. Line 489.
RICHARD BRINSLEY SHERIDAN.โโ1751-1816.โโIlliterate him, I say, quite from your memory.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโ'T is safest in matrimony to begin with a little aversion.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโA progeny of learning.
The Rivals. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโA circulating library in a town is as an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 1.
โโHe is the very pine-apple of politeness!
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
โโIf I reprehend anything in this world, it is the use of my oracular tongue, and a nice derangement of epitaphs!
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
โโAs headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 3.
โโToo civil by half.
The Rivals. Act iii. Sc. 4.
โโOur ancestors are very good kind of folks; but they are the last people I should choose to have a visiting acquaintance with.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 1.
โโNo caparisons, miss, if you please. Caparisons don't become a young woman.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
โโWe will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people,โour retrospection will be all to the future.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
โโYou are not like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once, are you?
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 2.
[441]
โโThe quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands; we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.
The Rivals. Act iv. Sc. 3.
โโYou 're our enemy; lead the way, and we 'll precede.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 1.
โโThere 's nothing like being used to a thing.[441:1]
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
โโAs there are three of us come on purpose for the game, you won't be so cantankerous as to spoil the party by sitting out.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
โโMy valour is certainly going! it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
โโI own the soft impeachment.
The Rivals. Act v. Sc. 3.
โโSteal! to be sure they may; and, egad, serve your best thoughts as gypsies do stolen children,โdisfigure them to make 'em pass for their own.[441:2]
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 1.
โโThe newspapers! Sir, they are the most villanous, licentious, abominable, infernalโ Not that I ever read them! No, I make it a rule never to look into a newspaper.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโEgad, I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโSheer necessity,โthe proper parent of an art so nearly allied to invention.
The Critic. Act i. Sc. 2.
โโNo scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
โโCertainly nothing is unnatural that is not physically impossible.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 1.
โโWhere they do agree on the stage, their unanimity is wonderful.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
โโInconsolable to the minuet in Ariadne.
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
โโThe Spanish fleet thou canst not see, becauseโit is not yet in sight!
The Critic. Act ii. Sc. 2.
[442]
โโAn oyster may be crossed in love.
The Critic. Act iii. Sc. 1.
โโYou shall see them on a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.
School for Scandal. Act i. Sc. 1.
โโHere is the whole set! a character dead at every word.
School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
โโI leave my character behind me.
School for Scandal. Act ii. Sc. 2.
Here 's to the maiden of bashful fifteen;
Here 's to the widow of fifty;
Here 's to the flaunting, extravagant quean,
And here 's to the housewife that 's thrifty!
Let the toast pass;
Drink to the lass;
I 'll warrant she 'll prove an excuse for the glass.
School for Scandal. Act iii. Sc. 3.
โโAn unforgiving eye, and a damned disinheriting countenance.
School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
โโIt was an amiable weakness.[442:1]
School for Scandal. Act v. Sc. 1.
I ne'er could any lustre see
In eyes that would not look on me;
I ne'er saw nectar on a lip
But where my own did hope to sip.
The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 2.
Had I a heart for falsehood framed,
I ne'er could injure you.
The Duenna. Act i. Sc. 5.
โโConscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics.
The Duenna. Act ii. Sc. 4.
While his off-heel, insidiously aside.
Provokes the caper which he seems to chide.
Pizarro. The Prologue.
โโSuch protection as vultures give to lambs.
Pizarro. Act ii. Sc. 2.
[443]
โโA life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line,โby deeds, not years.[443:1]
Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1.
โโThe Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.[443:2]
Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana.
You write with ease to show your breeding,
But easy writing 's curst hard reading.
Clio's Protest. Life of Sheridan (Moore). Vol. i. p. 155.
[441:1]
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