239 ETERNITY - FUTURITY ETERNITY-- FUTURITY. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come, Beyond is all abyss, Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Paradise Lost, Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, DRYDEN Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues. DRYDEN Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings Through what new scenes and changes must we pass! ADDISON'S Cato Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, Oh! in that future let us think POPE's Essay on Man, To hold each heart the heart that shares; With them the immortal waters drink, And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! BYRON. 240 ETIQUETTE-POLITENESS, &c. Shall I be left forgotten in the dust, When Fate, relenting, lets the flower revive! Bid him, though doom'd to perish, hope to live? Is it for this fair Virtue oft must strive With disappointment, penury and pain? No: heaven's immortal spring shall yet arrive And man's majestic beauty bloom again, Brignt thro' the eternal years of Love's triumphant reign. BEATTIE'S Minstrel ETIQUETTE-POLITENESS-RUDENESS. Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves SHAKSPEARE He was the mildest manner'd man, BYRON'S Don Juan. To all she was polite without parade; In such a sort as cannot leave behind A trace unworthy. BYRON'S Don Juan. There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, BYRON'S Don Juan. There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, BYRON'S Don Juan. All smiles, and bows, and courtesy was he. JT. WATSON. EVENING-EXAMPLE. EVENING. (See Day.) 241 EXAMPLE. No age hath been, since Nature first began Which, more than threatful laws, have men inclin'd Example hastens deeds to good effects. A fault doth never with remorse For as the light Mirror for Magistrates Not only serves to show, but renders us In acts exemplary, not only win Ourselves good names, but do to others give "Tis thus the spirit of a single mind BRANDON, CHAPMAN Maxes that of multitudes take one direction, BYRON'S Don Juan 242 EXCELLENCE - MERIT. WORTH. EXCELLENCE - MERIT WORTH. The sweet eye-glances, that like arrows glide, The charming smiles, that rob sense from the heart, Cannot expressèd be by any art. SPENSER'S Sonnets Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live. SHAKSPEARE, Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale SHAKSPEARE. A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his scal, To give the world assurance of a man. SHAKSPEARE. More pity that the eagle should be mew'd, SHAKSPEARE. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd. MILTON Good nature and good sense must ever join; POPE. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul Pore. Form'd by the converse happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe; Correct with spirit, eloquent with ease, Intent to reason, or polite to please. POPE. EXCELLENCE - MERIT - WORTH. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow Let envy snarl, let slander rail; In vain malicious tongues assail: POPE 213 From virtue's shield (secure from wound,) Their blunted, venom'd shafts rebound. A matchless pair; With equal virtue form d, and equal grace, GAY's Fables. Ease in your mien, and sweetness in your face, Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; Full many a flower is born to blush unseen, And waste its sweetness on the desert air. THOMSON TICKELL. GRAY'S Elegy. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His pencil our faces-his manners our heart. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. Describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. For she was good as she was fair, None, none on earth above her— As pure in thought as angels are, To see her, was to love her. |