EXTRAVAGANCE - EXTREMES. 249 EXTRAVAGANCE. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, We sacrifice to dress, till household joys Dreading that climax of all human ills, YOUNG COWPER'S Task. BYRON'S Don Juan. In my young days they lent me cash that way, BYRON'S Don Juan. EXTREMES. These violent delights have violent ends Is loathsome in its own deliciousness, And in the taste confounds the appetite. Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen; SHAKSPEARE. A sober moderation stands secure, No violent extremes endure. ALEYN Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand, HERRICK 250 EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects: As extreme hatred; and too violent rigour CHAPMAN For ever in a passion or a prayer. POPE. EYES-FEATURES- LIPS, &c. Compare her eyes, Not to the sun, for they do shine by night; Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever:— Whose light doth lighten all things here we see. SPENSER'S Sonnets. And, as the bright sun glorifies the sky, Her eyes, in heaven, SHAKSPEARE. Would through the airy region stream so bright, Her eyes, like marygold, had sheath'd their light, From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive: SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. EYES-FEATURES - LIPS &c. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. Soft as the down, that swells the cygnet's nest. Her tresses, loose behind, SHAKSPEARE. Play on her neck, and wanton in the wind, In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace, In one soft look what language lies! Her eyes outshine the radiant beams They charm the admiring gazer's sight, SHENSTONE, GAY'S Dione. 251 ICKELL. DIBDIN. By your eyes of heavenly blue, By your lips' ambrosial dew, BURNS. Your cheeks, where rose and lily blend, The Padlock-A Farce. CAMPBELL. Which melted in love, and which kindled in war. From the glance of her eye Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney. MISS OWENSON. With sweetness and beauty thy daughters arise, With rose-blooming cheeks, and love-languishing eyes. 252 EYES - FEATURES - LIPS, &c. Down her white neck, long, floating auburn cur's, BYRON'S Don Juan. Her glossy hair was cluster'd o'er a brow Bright with intelligence, and fair and smooth; BYRON'S Don Juan An eye's an eye, and, whether black or blue, BYRON'S Don Juan. pure, transparent, pale, and radiant face, Like to a lighted alabaster vase. BYRON'S Don Juan. Her eye's dark charm 't were vain to tell; It will assist thy fancy well. BYRON'S Giaour. Soft eyes look'd love to eyes that spoke again. BYRON'S Childe Harold. And the wild sparkle of her eye seem'd caught And eyes disclos'd what eyes alone can tell. BYRON'S Lara. DR. DWIGHT. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. And hate's last lightning quivers from his eyes. CHARLES SPRAGUE, There are whole veins of diamonds in thine eyes, BAILEY'S Festua. EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. With lightsome brow, and beaming eyes, and bright, Thy blue eyes BAILEY'S Festus Steal o'er the heart like sunshine o'er the skies; That to the inmost spirit wins its way; MRS. A. B. WELBY The bright black eye, the melting blue- 253 O. W. HOLMES Sweet, pouting lips, whose colour mocks the rose, Rich, ripe, and teeming with the dew of bliss,The flower of love's forbidden fruit, which grows Insidiously, to tempt us with a kiss. R. H. WILDE's Tasso's Sonnets. Yet well that eye could flash resentment's rays, C. F. HOFFMAN, Let other men bow, and utter the vow But give me the eye, thro' which I can spy To the depths of a heart warm and true; Whose colour may vie with the hue of the sky,— J. T. WATSON. |