Some went to prayers again, and made a vow Byron: Don Juan. Canto ii. St. 44 Then rose from sea to sky the wild farewell, And the sea yawn'd around her like a hell, Let firm, well-hammer'd soles protect thy feet, 4581 SHORT-HAND. Gay: Trivia. Bk. i. Line 33. These lines and dots are locks and keys, In narrow space to treasure thought, Whose precious hoards, whene'er you please, 4582 James Montgomery: Short-Hand SICKNESS- -see Diseases, Doctors. Lemira's sick; make haste, the doctor call, He comes: but where's his patient? - at the ball; And cries," My lady, sir, is always so: Diversions put her maladies to flight; True, she can't stand, but she can dance all night: For fevers take an opera in June: And, though perhaps you'll think the practice bold, Young: Love of Fame. Satire v. Line 179 see Love. Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, 4584 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 57. But sighs subside, and tears (e'en widows') shrink, So narrow as to shame their wintry brink, You'd think Grief a rich field that never would lie fallow; 4585 Byron: Don Juan. Canto x. St. 7 He sighed; the next resource is the full moon, Where all sighs are deposited; and now It happen'd luckily, the chaste orb shone. 4586 SIGNS. Byron: Don Juan. Canto xvi. St. 13 Sometime we see a cloud that's dragonish: A tower'd citadel, a pendant rock, A forked mountain, or blue promontory With trees upon 't, that nod unto the world, And mock our eyes with air: thou hast seen these signs; They are black vesper's pageants. 4587 Shaks. Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 12 SILENCE- - see Sabbath, Stillness, Storm. Silence is the perfectest herald of joy : I were but little happy, if I could say how much. 4588 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act ii. Sc. 1 O, my Antonio, I do know of these, 4589 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 1 Silence is only commendable In a neat's tongue dried, and a maid not vendible. 4590 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. I Silence often of pure innocence Persuades, when speaking fails. 4591 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act ii. Sc. 2. Silence in love bewrays more woe 4592 Sir Walter Raleigh: Silent Lover. St. 6. Silence more musical than any song. 4593 Christina G. Rossetti: Rest. Silence in woman is like speech in man. 4594 Ben Jonson: Silent Woman. Act ii. Sc. 2. When wit and reason both have fail'd to move 4595 Congreve: Old Bachelor. Act ii. Sc. Silence! coeval with eternity. Thou wert ere nature's self began to be; 'Twas one vast nothing, all, and all slept fast in thee; But couldst thou seize some tongues that now are free, Be silent always, when you doubt your sense, 4597 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 7 Down through the starry intervals, How deep the spell wherewith she thralls, Of all our loving Father's gifts, Mary Clemmer: Silence God's poet is silence! His song is unspoken, And yet so profound, so loud, and so far, It fills you, it thrills you with measures unbroken, And as soft, and as fair, and as far as a star. 4600 Joaquin Miller: Isles of the Amazons. Pt. i. St. 46. Let me silent be; For silence is the speech of love, The music of the spheres above. 4601 R. H. Stoddard: Speech of Love. You know There are moments when silence, prolonged and unbroken, More expressive may be than all words ever spoken. It is when the heart has an instinct of what In the heart of another is passing. 4602 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto i. St. 20. SIMILARITY. --see Bashfulness, Chastity. Like will to like: each creature loves his kind, Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind. 4603 Herrick: Aph. Like Loves His Like SIMPLICITY-see Beauty, Folly, Indifference. SIN --see Crime, Vice. Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 255 Some rise by sin, and some by virtue fall. 4605 Shaks.: M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 1 One sin, I know, another doth provoke; Murder's as near to lust, as flame to smoke. 4606 Shaks.: Pericles. Act i. Sc. 1 He is no man on whom perfecțions wait, I am a man Shaks.: Pericles. Act i. Sc. 1. nere is a method in man's wickedness; it grows up by degrees. 4610 Beaumont & Fletcher: King and No King. Act v. Sc. 4 The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance. 4611 Bayard Taylor: Lars. Bk. ii Drudgery and knowledge are of a kin, And both descended from one parent sin. 4612 Butler: Sat.on the Licentious Age of Chas. II. Line 181 In lashing sin, of every stroke beware, For sinners feel, and sinners you must spare. 4613 SINCERITY Crabbe: Tales. Advice. Line 242. see Candor, Faith, Fidelity, Honesty. His nature is too noble for the world: He would not flatter Neptune for his trident, Or Jove for's power to thunder. His heart's his mouth What his breast forges that his tongue must vent. 4614 Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 1. Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. 4615 Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Tolerance. To God, thy country, and thy friend be true. 4616 Henry Vaughan: Rules and Lessons At every close she made, th' attending throng Dryden: Flower and the Leaf. Line 197 The tenor's voice is spoilt by affectation, An ignorant, noteless, timeless, tuneless fellow; Who swore his voice was very rich and mellow, 4618 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iv. St. 87 Sing, seraph with the glory! heaven is high. 4619 Mrs. Browning: Sonnets. Seraph and Poet When God helps all the workers for His world, The singers shall have help of Him, not last. 4620 Mrs. Browning: Aurora Leigh. Bk. ii. Line 1303. Above the clouds I lift my wing To hear the bells of Heaven ring: Some of their music, though my flights be wild, To Earth I bring; Then let me soar and sing! 4621 E. C. Stedman: The Singer. St. 2. I send my heart up to thee, all my heart For the stars help me, and the sea bears part. 4622 Robert Browning: In a Gondola Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. xxi. St. 6 I do but sing because I must, 4623 God sent his Singers upon earth With songs of sadness and of mirth, That they might touch the hearts of men, And bring them back to heaven again. 4624 Longfellow: The Singers. St. L Songs of that high art Which, as winds do in the pine, Find an answer in each heart. 4625 Longfellow: Oliver Basselin St & |