114 CHARACTER - DISPOSITION, &c. There are no birds in last year's nest. H. W. LONGFELLOW Your coldness I heed not, your frown I defy; MRS. OSGOOD, Oh! what a change comes over that sad heart! And yield to rage, and anguish, and despair! J. T. WATSON. CHARACTER-DISPOSITION, &c. He was a man of rare, undoubted might, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, SHAKSPEARE. Who steals my purse, steals trash; 't is something, nothing. Robs me of that which not enriches him, And makes me poor indeed. SHAKSPEARE The purest treasure mortal times afford, SHAKSPEARE CHARACTER - DISPOSITION, &c. Guats are unnotic'd, wheresoe'er they fly, SHAKSPEARE. Ir a thy humours, whether grave or mellow, With warlike sword, and sing-song lay, Equipp'd alike for feast or fray. From MARTIAL. TRUMBULL'S Mc Fingal. Though gay as mirth, as curious thought sedate; As elegance polite, as power elate; Without, or with, offence to friends or foes, SAVAGE. BYRON'S Don Juan. Cold-blooded, smooth-fac'd, placid miscreant. 116 BYRON'S Don Juan. Here's a sigh for those who love me, And a smile for those who hate; And, whatever sky's above me, Here's a heart for ev'ry fate. With more capacity for love, than earth BYRON. BYRON'S Lara. Quick in revenge, and passionately proud, The New Timon. it was not mirth-for mirth she was too still; The dark grave, The New Timon Which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim HON. W. HERBERT Devoted, anxious, generous, void of guile, And with her whole heart's welcome in her smile. CHARITY. The secret pleasure of a generous act Is the great mind's great bribe. In faith and hope the world will disagree, MRS. NORTON. DRYDEN. But all mankind's concern'd in charity; All must be false, that thwart this one great end; POPE'S Essay on Man. There are, while human miseries abound, Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, The truly generous is the truly wise; ARMSTRONG. AARON HILL. HOME S Douglass. 117 CHASTITY-CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH, &c And learn the luxury of doing good. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd, Fed by the love from which it rose at first, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. The drying up a single tear has more COWPER. BYRON'S Don Juan. Unfee'd, the calls of nature she obeys, CRABBE. Would'st thou from sorrow find a sweet relief, The ear, inclin❜d to ev'ry voice of grief, The heart, whose impulse stay'd not for the mind But sprang to man's warm instinct for mankind 118 CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH-SMILE, &c And therein sate a lady, fresh and fair, Making sweet solace to herself alone; Sometimes she laugh'd that nigh her breath was gone That to her might move cause of merriment; SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. Which, when I saw rehears'd, I must confess, SHAKSPEARE With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, Than my heart cool with mortifying gloom. Fantastic, frolicsome, and wild, SHAKSPEARE With all the trinkets of a child. COTTON And the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind. GOLDSMITH. In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; As often we wish'd to have Dick back again. GOLDSMITH's Retaliation. Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun, GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. |