490 THIRST-THOUGHT – TIME. THIRST. 1. That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath 2. The incessant fever of that arid thirst BYRON'S Lara. Which welcomes, as a well, the clouds that burst BYRON'S Island. 3. A small glass, and thirsty! be sure never ask it ; Man might as well serve up his soup in a basket. LEIGH HUNT- From the Italian. THOUGHT.- (See MIND.) TIME. 1. Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth, And delves the parallels in beauty's brow; Feeds on the rarities of nature's truth, And nothing stands but for his scythe to mow. SHAKSPEARE. 2. The greatest schemes that human wit can forge, Or bold ambition dares to put in practice, Depend upon our husbanding a moment. 3. Think we, or think we not, Time hurries on Yet treads more soft than e'er did midnight thief, ROWE. BLAIR'S Grave. 4. The bell strikes one. But from its loss. Is wise in man. We take no note of time I feel the solemn sound. If heard aright, It is the knell of my departing hours: Where are they? With the years beyond the flood. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. Oh Time! thou beautifier of the dead, - 6. BYRON'S Childe Harold. Years steal Fire from the mind, as vigour from the limb. 7./Art is long, and time is fleeting, BYRON'S Childe Harold. And our hearts, though stout and brave, Funeral marches to the grave. 8. Like the swell of some sweet tune, Morning rises into noon, H. W. LONGfellow. May glides onward into June. H. W. LONGFELLOW. 9. Time, the tomb-builder, holds his fierce career, Dark, stern, and pitiless, and pauses not G. D. PRENTICE. 10. Compar'd with thee, even centuries in their might MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. 492 TIMIDITY TITLES - TOKEN. 11. While systems change, and suns retire, and worlds Slumber and wake-Time's ceaseless march proceeds. H. WARE. 1. TIMIDITY. Nor less was she in heart affected, But that she masked it with modesty, For fear she should of lightness be detected. 2. How long must I conceal SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. What yet my heart could wish were known? How long the truest passion feel, And yet that passion fear to own? 3. Hard is the fate of him who loves, Yet dares not tell his trembling pain. CARTWRIGHT. 4. The half-suppress'd glance of an eye admiring, The startled fawn from the hunter retiring- THOMSON. TITLES. (See ANCESTRY.) ELLIOT. TOKEN. 1. Accept of this; and could I add beside LYTTLETON. 2. She knew whose hand had gather'd them; she knew Whose sigh and touch were on their scent and hue. PICKERSGILL. TOWN AND COUNTRY. — (See RURAL SCENES.) TRANSPORT.-(See ECSTASY.) TRAVELLER. 1. Me other cares in other climes engage, 2. Returning, he proclaims by many a grace, By shrugs, and strange contortions of his face, LYTTLETON. COWPER'S Progress of Error. |