PRESBYTERIANS

- see Puritans, Sects.
A sect, whose chief devotion lies
In odd perverse antipathies:
In falling out with that or this,
And finding somewhat still amiss:
More peevish, cross, and splenetick,
Than dog distract, or monkey sick :
That with more care keep holy-day
The wrong, than others the right way:
Compound for sins they are inclin❜d to,
By damning those they have no mind to:
Still so perverse and opposite,

As if they worshipp'd God for spite.

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PRESENT, The.

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 207

Something beyond! The immortal morning stands
Above the night, clear shines her prescient brow;
The pendulous star in her transfigured hands

Lights up the Now.

4011

Mary Clemmer: Something Beyond.

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;

Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast

Till it gives its blessing.

4012

Whittier: My Soul and I. St. 34.

PRESS - see Journalists, News, Printing.

How shall I speak thee, or thy power address,
Thou god of our idolatry, the Press?

By thee, religion, liberty, and laws,

Exert their influence, and advance their cause:
By thee, worse plagues than Pharaoh's land befell,
Diffused, make earth the vestibule of hell;

Thou fountain, at which drink the good and wise,
Thou ever bubbling spring of endless lies,
Like Eden's dread probationary tree,
Knowledge of good and evil is from thee!
4013

Cowper: Progress of Error. Line 460.

Did Charity prevail, the press would prove
A vehicle of virtue, truth, and love.
4014

PRIDE-see Authority, Humility.

Cowper: Charity. Line 624.

A falcon, tow'ring in her pride of place,
Was by a mousing owl hawk'd at and kill'd.

4015

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act ii Sc 4

Harsh rage,

Defect of manners, want of government,
Pride, haughtiness, opinion, and disdain:
The least of which, haunting a nobleman,
Loseth men's hearts.

4016

Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1

Over-proud,

And under-honest; in self-assumption greater,
Than in the note of judgment.

4017

Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act ii Sc. 3. Pride hath no other glass

To show itself, but pride; for supple knees
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.
4018
You speak o' the people as if you were a god
To punish: not a man of their infirmity.
4019

Shaks. Troil, and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3.

Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. l.

But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal!

4020

Shaks.: Henry V. Act i. Sc. 2

"Tis pride, rank pride, and haughtiness of soul: I think the Romans call it stoicism.

4021

Addison: Cato. Act i. Sc. 4

How insolent is upstart pride!
Hadst thou not thus, with insult vain,
Provok'd my patience to complain,
I had conceal'd thy meaner birth,
Nor trac'd thee to the scum of earth.
4022

Gay: Fables. Pt. i Fable 24.

Whatever Nature has in worth denied,

She gives in large recruits of needful pride;

For as in bodies, thus in souls, we find,

What wants in blood and spirits, swell'd with wind:
Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence,

And fills up all the mighty void of sense.

4023

Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 5.

Of all the causes which conspire to blind
Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind,
What the weak head with strongest bias rules,
Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools.

4024
In pride, in reas'ning pride, our error lies;
All quit their sphere, and rush into the skies;
Pride still is aiming at the blest abodes,
Men would be angels, angels would be gods.
4025

Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. ii. Line 1

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 123

Ask for what end the heavenly bodies shine,
Earth for whose use? Pride answers, 'Tis for mine
For me kind nature wakes her genial power,
Suckles each herb, and spreads out every flower.
4026
Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 131
Here beggar pride defrauds her daily cheer,
To boast a splendid banquet once a year.
4027
Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of humankind pass by.
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As in some Irish houses, where things are so-so,
One gammon of bacon hangs up for a show; —
But, for eating a rasher of what they take pride in,
They'd as soon think of eating the pan it is fried in.
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Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 277

Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 327

Goldsmith: Haunch of Venison. Line 9

Pride (of all others the most dangerous fault)

Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
The men who labor and digest things most,

Will be much apter to despond than boast.

4030

PRIESTS.

Roscommon: Essay on Translated Verse. Line 161.

Led so grossly by this meddling priest,

Dreading the curse that money may buy out.

4031

Shaks.: King John. Act iii. Sc. 1.

Priests of all religions are the same, Of whatsoe'er descent their godhead be, Stock, stone, or other homely pedigree.

4032 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 99 Perhaps thou wert a priest,

if so, my struggles Are vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.

4033

Horace Smith: To a Mummy. St. 4.

see Kings, Royalty.

Princes are the glass, the school, the book, Where subjects' eyes do learn, do read, do look.

4034 PRINTING

Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 615

see Books, Press.

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!

Beasts may convey, and tuneful birds may sing,
Their mutual feelings, in the opening spring;
But Man alone has skill and power to send
The heart's warm dictates to the distant friend;
"Tis his alone to please, instruct, advise
Ages remote, and nations yet to rise.

4035

Crabbe: The Library. Line 69

Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.

4038 PRODIGIES.

Young: Night Thoughts. Night i. Line 393.

The spring, the summer,

The chilling autumn. angry winter, change
Their wonted liveries; and the mazed world,

By their increase, now knows not which is which.
4039

Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act ii. Sc. 2
Can such things be,

And overcome us like a summer's cloud,
Without our special wonder?

4040

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

At my nativity,

The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes,
Of burning cressets: and, at my birth,

The frame and huge foundation of the earth
Shak'd like a coward.

4041

When these prodigies

Do so conjointly meet, let not men say "These are their reasons,

Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1

They are natural; "

Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 3.

For, I believe, they are portentous things

Unto the climate that they point upon.

4042

PROGRESS

- see Cause and Effect.

Thus far into the bowels of the land

Have we march'd on without impediment.

4043

Shaks.: Richard III. Act v. Sc. 2.

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of

the suns.

4044

Tennyson: Locksley Hall. St. 69

PROLOGUE.

Prologues precede the piece in mournful verse,
As undertakers walk before the hearse.

4045

PROMISES.

Garrick: Apprentice. Prologue

His promises fly so beyond his state,

That what he speaks is all in debt; he owes for every word He is so kind, that he now pays interest for 't:

His lands put to their books.

4046

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2.

I see, sir, you are liberal in offers:
You taught me first to beg; and now, methinks,
You teach me how a beggar should be answer'd.
4047

Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. 1.

His promises were, as he then was, mighty;
But his performance, as he is now, nothing.
4048

Thy promises are like Adonis' gardens,
That one day bloom'd, and fruitful were the next.
4049

Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2.

Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 6.

Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act iv. Sc. 8

A little fire is quickly trodden out;

Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench.

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That we would do,

We should do when we would; for this would changes,
And hath abatements and delays as many,

As there are tongues, are hands, are accidents;

And then this should is like a spendthrift sigh,

That hurts by easing.

4051

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 7.

Heaven has to all allotted, soon or late,

Some lucky revolution of their fate:

Whose motions, if we watch and guide with skill, (For human good depends on human will,)

Our fortune rolls as from a smooth descent,

And from the first impression takes the bent:

But, if unseized, she glides away like wind,

And leaves repenting folly far behind.

4052 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 252.

PROOF.

Give me the ocular proof;

Make me to see't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,

To hang a doubt on.

4053

Shaks.: Othello. Act iil. Sc. 3.