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 Byron Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 1. Admire, exult - despise, laugh, weep, Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iv. St. 109. Once in the flight of ages past, 3087 MANNERS. James Montgomery: Common Lot. Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act iv. Sc. 1 3088 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. 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. Kind-hearted, spite of ugly looks and threats, 3095 --- Helen Hunt: March. see Courtship, Father, Happi ness, Husband, Love, Mother, Widows. Besides her inborn virtue fortify; Sir Thomas Overbury: A Wife. 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. Shaks.: Mer. of Venice Act v. Sc. 1. 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, 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, 3106 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 In such a business. 3108 Shaks. Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3 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. Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 5. The instances, that second marriage move, Are base respects of thrift, but none of love. 3114 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. Most potent, grave, and reverend signiors, 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 |