For he being dead, with him is beauty slain; And beauty dead, black chaos comes again. 575 Shaks.: Venus and Adonis. Line 1019 Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, Nor public flame, nor private, dares to shine; Thy hand, great Anarch, lets the curtain fall; 576 Pope: Dunciad. Bk. iv. Line 649 CHARACTER -see Fickleness, Detraction, Reputation. That to the observer doth thy history Fully unfold. 577 Shaks.: M. for M. Act i. Sc. 1 He was a scholar, and a ripe and good one; Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act ii. Sc. 7. Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 1014. Dryden: All for Love. Prologue 580 582 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 379 Of manners gentle, of affections mild! 583 Pope: On Gay. Line 1. Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? 584 Pope: Epis. to Arbuthnot. Line 213. Rare compound of oddity, frolic, and fun! Who relished a joke and rejoic'd in a pun. 585 Goldsmith: Retaliation. Postscript. Line 3 Describe him who can, An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man. 586 Goldsmith: Retaliation. Line 93 Learn to dissemble wrongs, to smile at injuries, Search, and know all mankind's mysterious ways. But trust the secret of thy soul to none. 588 Rowe: Ulysses. Act i. Sc. A Palace As in a building Stone rests on stone, and wanting the foundation 589 Longfellow: Michael Angelo. Pt. v Her glossy hair was clustered o'er a brow Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 61 591 Byron: Two Foscari. Act ii. Sc. 1 With more capacity for love, than earth Byron: Lara. Canto i. St. 18 To those who know thee not, no words can paint! Worth, courage, honor, these indeed 594 E. C. Stedman: Beyond the Portals. Pt. 10 In all thy humors, whether grave or mellow, 595 Addison's Trans. of Martial. xii. 47 The hand that rounded Peter's dome, Himself from God he could not free; Emerson: The Problem. Line 19 Love, hope, fear, faith, - these make humanity; 597 Robert Browning: Paracelsus. Sc. 3. Strong souls Live like fire-hearted suns, to spend their strength George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy. Bk. iv 598 George Eliot: A Minor Prophet. see Beggars, Benevolence. For his bounty, There was no winter in't; an autumn 'twas, That grew the more by reaping. 600 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act v. Sc. 2. He hath a tear for pity, and a hand Yet, notwithstanding, being incens'd, he's flint; As flaws congealed in the spring of day. Shaks.: 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 1. "Tis not enough to help the feeble up, Charity itself fulfils the law, Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act iv. Sc. 3. They serve God well Who serve his creatures. 604 Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity 605 Mrs. Norton: Lady of La Garaye. Hood: Bridge of Sighs Your bounty is beyond my speaking; But though my mouth be dumb, my heart shal. thank you. in faith and hope the world will disagree, Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iii. Line 307 Let humble Allen, with an awkward shame, Pope: Epil. to Satires. Dialogue i. Line 135. A thousand ways to waste superfluous wealth, 609 Armstrong: Art of Preserving Health. Line 176 True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd, Fed by the love from which it rose at first, Thrives against hope, and, in the rudest scene, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. Cowper: Charity. Line 573 The drying up a single tear has more 611 CHASTITY see Purity. Byron: Don Juan. Canto viii. St. 3. Chaste as the icicle That's curded by the frost from purest snow, And hangs on Dian's temple. 612 CHATHAM. Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act v. Sc. 3 His speech, his form, his action, full of grace, He stood, as some inimitable hand Would strive to make a Paul or Tully stand. 613 CHATTERTON. Cowper: Table Talk. Line 347. I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy, 614 CHEATING. Wordsworth: Res. and Indep. St. 7 Doubtless the pleasure is as great, of being cheated as to cheat. 615 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto iii. Line 1 CHEERFULNESS. Let me play the fool; With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come; Sleep when he wakes? and creep into the jaundice 616 Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act i. Sc 1 A merry heart goes all the day, 617 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 2 It is good To lengthen to the last a sunny mood. 618 James Russell Lowell: Legend of Brittany. Pt. i. St. 35. What then remains, but well our power to use, And keep good-humor still, whate'er we lose? And trust me, dear, good-humor can prevail, When airs, and flights, and screams, and scolding fail. 619 CHIDING. Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto v. Line 29 If she do frown 'tis not in hate of you, Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act iii. Sc. 1. Those that do teach young babes, 621 Shaks.: Othello. Act iv. Sc. 2. Shaks.: 2 Henry IV. Act iv. Sc. 4 Chide him for faults, and do it reverently, 622 CHILD-CHILDHOOD-CHILDREN. The royal tree hath left us royal fruit, Which, mellow'd by the stealing hours of time, And make, no doubt, us happy by his reign. 623 Shaks.: Richard III. Act iii. Sc. 7. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother! 624 Thou art my flesh, my blood, my daughter; 625 Shaks.: King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4 |