Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings 4626 and skim away. Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. xlvii. St. 4. The gift of Song was chiefly lent To give consoling music for the joys We lack, and not for those which we possess. 4627 Bayard Taylor: Poet's Journal. Third Evening Song forbids victorious deeds to die. 4628 The lively Shadow-world of Song. 4629 Schiller: Artists. St. 11. Schiller: Artists. St. 23 Songs are but sweet and skilful words, And are but born to die. 4630 SINGULARITY. R. H. Stoddard: The Speech of Love No two on earth in all things can agree; Women and men, as well as girls and boys, In gewgaws take delight, and sigh for toys, Your sceptres and your crowns, and such like things, In things indifferent reason bids us choose, SKULL. Churchill: Apology. Line 40% Look on its broken arch, its ruined wall, Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 6 SKY see Blue, Clouds, Rainbow, Stars, Sun, Sunrise Sunset. The witchery of the soft blue sky. 4633 Wordsworth: Peter Bell. Pt. i. St. 15. So cloudless, clear, and purely beautiful, 4634 Byron: Dream. St. 4 SLANDER - - see Detraction, Calumny, Rumor, Scandal Society. Slanderous reproaches, and foul infamies, All those against that fort did bend their batteries. 4635 Spenser Fairie Queene. Bk. ii. Canto xi. St. 16 I'll devise some honest slanders To stain my cousin with: One doth not know How much an ill word may empoison liking. 4636 Shaks. Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. The jewel, best enamelled, Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc 1 For ever hous'd where it gets possession. 4638 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act iii. Sc. 1 I am disgrac'd, impeach'd, and baffled here; Pierc'd to the soul with slander's venom'd spear. 4639 Shaks. Richard II. Act i. Sc. 1. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers; which ever, 4640 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 2. "Tis slander, Whose edge is sharper than the sword: whose tongue All corners of the world, -kings, queens, and states, 4641 4642 Slander, Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 4 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 4. Whose whisper o'er the world's diameter, As level as the cannon to his blank, Transports his poison'd shot. 4643 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 1 I will be hang'd, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, 4644 Shaks.: Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2 Slander's mark was ever yet the fair; A crow that flies in heaven's sweetest air. 4645 Shaks.: Sonnet lxx The feeblest vermin can destroy, Butler: Ode on Critics Malicious slander never would have leisure But 'tis a busy, talking world, Rowe: Fair Penitent. Act iii. Sc. 1 4648 4649 Swift: Journal of Modern Lady. Line 188. That, like the fabling Nile, no fountain knows; Thomson: Liberty. Pt. iv. Line 604. Quick-circulating slanders mirth afford: And reputation bleeds in every word. 4651 Churchill: Apology. Line 47 He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff; 4652 Young: Epis. to Pope. Epis. i. 16:93 Skilled by a touch to deepen scandal's tints, With all the kind mendacity of hints, While ming ing truth with falsehood, sneers wi spes, A thread of candor with a web of wiles; A plain blust show of briefly-spoken seeming, To hide her bioodless heart's soul-harden'd scheming? A lip of lies, a face formed to conceal; Byron: Sketch. Line 55. Does not the law of Heaven say blood for blood? And he who taints kills more than he who sheds it. 4654 Byron: Mar. Faliero. Act ii. Sc. 1 "Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words, Slander, the foulest whelp of sin. 4655 Pollok: Course of Time. Bk. viii. Line 715 'Tis false! 'tis basely false ! What wretch could drop from his envenom'd tongue A tale so damn'd? It chokes my breath. 4656 SLAVERY -- Joanna Baillie: De Monfort. Act iv. Sc. 2 see Freedom, Liberty, Slave-Trade. Thou art a slave, whom Fortune's tender arm With favor never clasp'd: but bred a dog. 4657 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. Mechanic slaves With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers, shall 4658 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. Base is the slave that pays. 4659 Shaks.: Henry V. Act ii. Sc. 1. Command the world; the light that leads to heaven; And all-protecting freedom, which alone 4660 Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 875 Sharp penury afflicts these wretched isles! There hope ne'er dawns, and pleasure never smiles. 4661 Falconer: Shipwreck. Canto i. Line 70 He finds his fellow guilty of a skin 4662 Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 12 I would not have a slave to till my ground, Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 29 Slaves cannot breathe in England; if their lungs Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 40 The hearts within thy valleys bred, Now crawl from cradle to the grave, 4665 Byron: Giaour. Line 147 A crowd of shivering slaves of every nation, Poor creatures! their good looks were sadly chang'd: From friends, and home, and freedom far estrang'd. Used to it, no doubt, as eels are to be flay'd. 4666 SLAVE-TRADE Byron: Don Juan. Canto v. St. 7 see Slavery. What wish can prosper, or what prayer, And each endures, while yet he draws his breath, SLEEP Cowper: Charity. Line 137 see Care, Dreams, Repose, Rest. Come, sleep, O sleep! the certain knot of peace, The baiting-place of wit, the balm of woe; The poor man's wealth, the prisoner's release, The impartial judge between the high and low. 4668 Sir Philip Sidney: Astrophel and Stella. St. 39 As fast lock'd up in sleep, as guiltless labor, 4669 Shaks.: M. for M. Act iv. Sc. 2. Sleep, that sometimes shuts up sorrow's eye. 4670 Shaks.: Mid. N. Dream. Act iii. Sc. 2 Sleep, that knits up the ravell'd sleave of care, 4671 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act ii. Sc. 2 |