2. Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade; Or, ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove? POPE'S Essay on Man. 3. Order is heaven's first law; and, this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. POPE'S Essay on Man. 4. None but thyself can be thy parallel. 5. To cope with thee, would be about as vain As for a brook to cope with ocean's flood. BYRON'S Don Juan. 6. As some fierce comet of tremendous size, POLLOK's Course of Time. 7. For mountains issue out of plains, and not BAILEY'S Festus. ERROR. 1. For he that once hath missèd the right way, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. More proselytes and converts use t'accrue BUTLER. 3. Even so, by tasting of that fruit forbid, Where they sought knowledge, they did error find; And to give passion eyes, made reason blind. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 4. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again: 1. W. C. BRYANT. ESTEEM. Love is not love, When it is mingled with respects, that stand Aloof from the entire point.. SHAKSPEARE. 2. For all true love is grounded on esteem. BUCKINGHAM. 3. O, why is gentle love A stranger to that mind, Which pity and esteem can move, LORD LYTTLETON. 4. Take my esteem, if you on that can live; But, frankly, sir, 't is all I have to give. 5. She attracts me daily with her gentle virtues, So soft, and beautiful, and heavenly. DRYDEN. JAMES A. HILLHOUSE. 1. 2. ETERNITY-FUTURITY. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come, Beyond is all abyss, SHAKSPEARE. Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 3. Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know 4. Sure there is none but fears a future state; DRYDEN. 5. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings DRYDEN. Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! ADDISON'S Cato. 6. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state. POPE'S Essay on Man. 7. Oh in that future let us think 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. 8. 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, Bright thro' the eternal years of Love's triumphant reign. 1. Fit for the mountains and the barbarous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 2. He was the mildest manner'd man, SHAKSPEARE. BYRON'S Don Juan. 3. To all she was polite without parade; In such a sort as cannot leave behind BYRON'S Don Juan. 4. There's nothing in the world like etiquette In kingly chambers, or imperial halls, BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. There was a general whisper, toss, and wriggle, But etiquette forbade them all to giggle. BYRON'S Don Juan. 6. All smiles, and bows, and courtesy was he. J. T. WATSON. EVENING.—(See DAY.) EXAMPLE. 1. No age hath been, since Nature first began Some deeds of praise for mirrors unto man, Which, more than threatful laws, have men inclin’d; 2. A fault doth never with remorse 3. 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 4. "Tis thus the spirit of a single mind BRANDON. CHAPMAN. Makes that of multitudes take one direction, BYRON'S Don Juan. |