Man is the shuttle, to whose winding quest God order'd motion, but ordain'd no rest. Henry Vaughan: Man Man is of soul and body, formed for deeds To shrink at every sound, to quench the flame Shelley: Queen Mab. Pr. iv. Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives 3075 Whittier: The Grave by The Lake. St. 34. Strong to the end, a man of men, from out the strife he passed; The grandest hour of all his life was that of earth the last. 3076 Whittier: John Quincy Adams. Let each man think himself an act of God, His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. 3077 Bailey: Festus. Proem. Line 162. It matters not what men assume to be; Or good, or bad, they are but what they are. 3078 Bailey: Festus. Sc. Wood and Water. What is man? A foolish baby; 3079 Man, as says each bearded sage, Is but a piece of clay, Whose mystic moisture lost by age, To dust it falls away. 3080 Carlyle: Cui Bono. Thomas Chatterton: The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 6. Born to be plough'd with years, and sown with cares, And reap'd by Death, lord of the human soil. 3081 Byron: Heaven and Earth. Act i. Sc. 3. Men are the sport of circumstances, when The circumstances seem the sport of men. 3082 Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 17 Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what, Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 133 Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 128 Virgins are soft as the roses they twine, And all, save the spirit of man, is divine. 3085 Byron Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 1. Admire, exult - despise, laugh, weep, for here There is such matter for all feeling: : - man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear. 3086 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 109. Once in the flight of ages past, There liv'd a man: - and who was he? 3087 MANNERS. James Montgomery: Common Lot. Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, 3088 Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act iv. Sc. 1 Defect of manners, want of government, 3089 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1 Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, Laugh where we must, be candid where we can; 3090 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 13 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. i. Line 172 Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes, 3091 MARCH. A cloudy stream is flowing, In the depths of drear December, Barry Cornwall: March, April, May. The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and clouds, and changing skies; I hear the rushing of the blast, That through the snowy valleys flies. 3093 William Cullen Bryant: March. Still the north wind breathes His frost, and still the sky sheds snow and sleet. 3094 William Cullen Bryant: Twenty-seventh of March. Ah, March! we know thou art Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, And, out of sight, art nursing April's violets! 3095 Helen Hunt: March. MARRIAGE, MATRIMONY. - see Courtship, Father, Happiness, Husband, Love, Mother, Widows. Give me, next good, an understanding wife, By nature wise, not learned by much art; Some knowledge on her part, will, all her life, Besides her inborn virtue fortify; They are most firmly good, that best know why. 3096 Sir Thomas Overbury: A Wife. No sweet aspersion shall the heavens let fall To make this contract grow; but barren hate, Sour-ey'd disdain, and discord, shall bestrew The union of your bed with weeds so loathly, That you shall hate it both: therefore, take heed. 3097 Shaks.: Tempest. Act iv. Sc. 1. Look down, you gods, And on this couple drop a blessed crown. 3098 In love, the heavens themselves do guide the state; Money buys land, and wives are sold by fate. 3099 Shaks.: Tempest. Act v. Sc. 1 Shaks.: Mer. W. of W. Act v. Sc. 5 Let still the woman take An elder than herself; so wears she to him, 3100 Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 4 The ancient saying is no heresy; Hanging and wiving goes by destiny. 3101 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 9. A light wife doth make a heavy husband. 3102 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice Act v. Sc. 1. A young man married is a man that's marred 3103 Shaks.: All's Well. Act ii. Sc. 3. Honest company, I thank you all, That have beheld me give away myself To this most patient, sweet, and virtuous wife. 3104 Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act iii. Sc. 2. Thy husband is thy lord, thy life, thy keeper, To watch the night in storms, the day in cold, Too little payment for so great a debt. 3105 Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. Such duty as the subject owes the prince, Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. I am asham'd, that women are so simple To offer war, where they should kneel for peace: Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. Reason, my son Should choose himself a wife: but as good reason, The father (all whose joy is nothing else But fair Posterity) should hold some counsel 3108 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. & Should all despair, That have revolted wives, the tenth of mankind 3109 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act i. Sc. 2. He is the half-part of a blessed man And she a fair divided excellence, Shaks.: King John. Act ii. Sc. 2. Hasty marriage seldom proveth well. 3111 Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 1 What is wedlock forced, but a hell, Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5. 3112 Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship. 3113 Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. The instances, that second marriage move, 3115 Shaks.: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. Oh, the music and beauty of life lose their worth, But the union of hearts gives that pleasure its birth, Like the sun on his own chosen isle; It gives to the fireside of winter the light, The glow and the glitter of spring O sweet are the hours, when two fond hearts unite, 3116 The joys of marriage are the heaven on earth, 3117 Bohn: Ms Ford: Broken Heart. Act ii. Sc. 2 |