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Appearances to save, his only care;

So things seem right no matter what they are. 172

Churchill: Rosciad. Line 299

By outward show let's not be cheated; An ass should like an ass be treated. 173

Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 11

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern
Mask hearts where grief hath little left to learn;
And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost,
In smiles that least befit, who wears them most.

Byron: Corsair. Canto iii. St 21

see Eating, Drinking.
Our stomachs

174 APPETITE

Will make what's homely, savory.

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His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook.

178

APPLAUSE.

Churchill: Gotham. iii. Line 133.

I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.

179

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 3.
Such a noise arose

As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
As loud and to as many tunes, - hats, cloaks,
Doublets, I think flew up; and had their faces
Been loose, this day they had been lost.
180

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1
Your deeds are known
In words that kindle glory from the stone.

181

Schiller: The Walk

Oh popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

182

APRIL.

Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 481

Again the blackbirds sing; the streams

Wake, laughing, from their winter dreams,
And tremble in the April showers
The tassels of the maple flowers.

183

Whittier: The Singer. St. 20

Sweet April! many a thought

Is wedded unto thee, as hearts are wed:

Nor shall they fail till, to its autumn brought,
Life's golden fruit is shed.

184

Longfellow: An April Day. St. 8

April cold with dropping rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds,
And trumpet-lowing of the herds;
The scarlet maple-keys betray
What potent blood hath modest May;
What fiery force the earth renews,
The wealth of forms, the flush of hues;
What Joy in rosy waves outpoured,
Flows from the heart of Love, the Lord.
185

Emerson: May-day. Line 124

I saw the Days deformed and low,
Short and bent by cold and snow;

The merry Spring threw wreaths on them,
Flower-wreaths gay with bud and bell;
Many a flower and many a gem,
They were refreshed by the smell,

They shook the snow from hats and shoon,
They put their April raiment on.
186

Sweet April's tears,

Dead on the hem of May.

187

Emerson: May-day. Line 307

Alexander Smith: A Life Drama. Se viii

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Ah, month that comes with rainbows crowned,
And golden shadows dressed-
Constant to her inconstancy,
And faithful to unrest.
188

Come, loveliest season of the year,
And every quickened pulse shall beat,
Your footsteps in the grass to hear,
And feel your kisses soft and sweet.
189

Alice Cary: April

Phoebe Cary: Spring After the Wer

Come up, April, through the valley,
In your robes of beauty drest,
Come and wake your flowery children
From their wintry beds of rest.
Come and overblow them softly
With the sweet breath of the south;
Drop upon them, warm and loving,
Tenderest kisses of your mouth.

190

Phoebe Cary: An April Welcome

ARGUMENT.

O most lame and impotent conclusion. 191

Shaks.: Othello Act ii. Sc. 1

He that complies against his will,

Is of his own opinion still.

192

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. iii. Canto iii. Line 547

He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,

A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks committee-men or trustees.

193

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 71

Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail'd, revil'd as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.
194

Gay Fables. Fable ii. Pt. 16.

Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes
Error a fault, and truth discourtesy.

195

Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 52

Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past,
We find our tenets just the same at last.

196

Who shall decide when doctors disagree,

Pope: Mor. Essays. Epis. iii. Line 15

Pope: Mor. Essays. Epis. iii. Line 1

And soundest casuists doubt, like you and me.

197

Who, too deep for his hearers, still went on refining,
And thought of convincing while they thought of dining.
Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 35

198

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill,

For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still;
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amaz'd the gazing rustics rang'd around;

And still they gaz'd, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.
199

ARISTOCRACY.

Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 211

'Tis from high life high characters are drawn; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.

200

Pope: Mor. Essays. Epis. i. Line 135

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Shaks.: King John. Act ii. Sc 1

A braver choice of dauntless spirits,
Than now the English bottoms have waft o'er,
Did never float upon the swelling tide.
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We are but warriors for the working-day:
Our gayness, and our gilt, are all be-smirch'd
With rainy inarching in the painful field.
There's not a piece of feather in our host.
202

Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3

Remember whom you are to cope withal;
A sort of vagabonds, rascals, and run-aways,
A scum of Bretagnes, and base lackey peasants,
Whom their o'er-cloyed country vomits forth
To desperate ventures and assur'd destruction.
203

ART-ARTIST.

Shaks.: Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,
To make some good, but others to exceed.

204

Shaks.: Pericles. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Dost thou love pictures? we will fetch thee straight
Adonis painted by a running brook;

And Cytherea all in sedges hid;

Which seem to move and wanton with her breath,

Even as the waving sedges play with wind.

205

Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Induction. Sc. 2.

Painting is welcome!

The painting is almost the natural man;

For since dishonor traffics with man's nature,
He is but outside; these pencil'd figures are
Even such as they give out.

206

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. I

His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand;
His manners were gentle, complying, and bland;
Still born to improve us in every part,

His pencil our faces - his manners our heart.
207

Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 139

A flattering painter who made it his care,

To draw men as they ought to he, not as they are.

208

Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 63

Around the mighty master came

The marvels which his pencil wrought,
Those miracles of power whose fame
Is wide as human thought.

209

Whittier: Raphael. St. 8

Seraphs share with thee Knowledge: But art, O man, is thine alone! 210

Schiller: Artists, St. 2

The hand that rounded Peter's dome,
And groined the aisles of Christian Rome,
Wrought in a sad sincerity;

Himself from God he could not free;
He builded better than he knew;-
The conscious stone to beauty grew.
211

Emerson: The Problem. Line 19

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ASTONISHMENT- see Amazement, Surprise, Fear.
It is the part of men to fear and tremble,

When the most mighty gods, by tokens, send
Such dreadful heralds to astonish us.

216

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 3.

-Hear it not, ye stars!

And thou, pale moon! turn paler at the sound. 217

Young: Night Thoughts. Night iii. Line 215.

ASTRONOMERS.

These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights,
That give a name to every fixed star,

Have no more profit of their shining nights,
Than those that walk, and wot not what they are.

218

Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act. Sc. 1

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