10. Alas! the breast that inly bleeds, 11. Go, when the hunter's hand hath wrung From forest cave her shrieking young, And calm the lonely lioness But soothe not, mock not my distress! BYRON'S Giaour. BYRON'S Giaour. 12. Despair defies even despotism; there is 13. BYRON'S Two Foscari. My mother earth! And thou, fresh breaking day! and you, ye mountains! Art a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart! 14. My solitude is solitude no more, BYRON'S Manfred. But peopled with the furies; I have gnash'd BYRON'S Manfred. 15. They, who have nothing more to fear, may well BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 16. Hope is a willing slave-despair is free. 17. One long, loud shriek swell'd on the air, R. DAWES. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. 18. She stands, as stands the stricken deer Check'd midway in the fearful chase, 19. The fond illusions I have cherish'd- 20. What next? I know not, do not careCome pain or pleasure, weal or woe,— There's nothing which I cannot bear, Since I have borne this withering blow. J. G. WHITTIER. J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. DESTINY-FATE-NECESSITY. 1. Who, then, can strive with strong necessity, That holds the world in his still changing state? SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. What fate imposes, men must needs abide ; It boots not to resist both wind and tide. 3. 'Tis necessity SHAKSPEARE. To which the gods must yield; and I obey, BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. 4. Alas! what stay is there in human state, DRYDEN. 192 DESTRUCTION - RUIN. 5. Fatal necessity is never known, 6. When fear admits no hope of safety, then Necessity makes dastards valiant men. LORD BROOKE. 7. Well, well-the world must turn upon its axis, 8. We are the victims of its iron rule, 9. HERRICK. BYRON'S Don Juan. The warm and beating human heart its tool; Fate is above us all; MISS LANDON. We struggle, but what matters our endeavour? MISS LANDON. 10. While warmer souls command, nay, make their fate, Thy fate made thee, and forc'd thee to be great. MOORE. DESTRUCTION -RUIN. 1. See the wide waste of all-devouring years! POPE'S Moral Essays. 2. They tore away some weeds, 't is true, But all the flowers were ravish'd too. MOORE. 3. High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 4. Their sceptres broken and their swords in rust. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 5. Where her high steeples whilom used to stand, SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. DETERMINATION-RESOLUTION, &c. 1. Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, That shuns the hive, because the bees have stings. Experience teacheth us SHAKSPEARE. 2. That resolution's a sole help at need. SHAKSPEARE 3. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; SHAKSPEARE. 4. Although The air of Paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all, I will be gone. SHAKSPEARE. 5. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. SHAKSPEARE. 194 DETRACTION - DINNER-DISAPPOINTMENT. 6. All the soul 7. Of man is resolution, which expires Never, from valiant men, till their last breath; Entice the sun From his ecliptic line-he shall obey 8. Men make resolves, and pass into decrees DETRACTION.-(See CALUMNY.) CHAPMAN. BARON. CHURCHILL. DINNER. (See APPETITE.) 1. DISAPPOINTMENT. My May of life Is fallen in the sere, the yellow leaf; I must not look to have, but, in their stead, 2. Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. |