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APPETITE-DINNER-HUNGER, &c.

10. Their various cares in one great point combine, The business of their lives-that is, to dine.

YOUNG'S Love of Fame.

11. The turnpike road to people's hearts, I find, Lies thro' their mouths, or I mistake mankind.

DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar.

12. Behold! his breakfasts shine with reputation;
His dinners are the wonder of the nation!
With these he treats both commoners and quality,
Who praise, where'er they go, his hospitality.

DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar.

13. Dire was the clang of plates, of knife and fork, That merciless fell, like tomahawks, to work!

DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar.

14. Famish'd people must be slowly nurst,
And fed by spoonfuls, else they always burst.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

15. Besides, I'm hungry, and just now would take, Like Esau, for my birthright a beef-steak.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

16. And when he look'd upon his watch again,
He found how much old Time had been a winner-
He also found that he had lost his dinner.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

Nothing's more sure at moments to take hold
Of the best feelings of mankind, which grow
More tender, as we every day behold,
Than that all-softening, overpowering knell,
The tocsin of the soul-the dinner bell!

BYRON'S Don Juan.

When dinner has oppress'd me,

I think it is perhaps the gloomiest hour
Which turns up out of the sad twenty-four.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

19. He fell upon whate'er was offer'd—like A priest, a shark, an alderman, or pike.

20. But man is a carnivorous production,

21.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

And must have meat, at least one meal a day;
He cannot live, like woodcocks, upon suction,
But, like the shark and tiger, must have prey.

-All human history attests

BYRON'S Don Juan.

That happiness for man-the hungry sinner-
Since Eve ate apples, must depend on dinner!

BYRON'S Don Juan.

22. The big round dumpling rolling from the pot.

D. HUMPHREYS.

23. The same stale viands serv'd up o'er and o'er, The stomach nauseate.

WYNNE'S Ovid.

SHAKSPEARE.

APPLAUSE-POPULARITY.

1. Cries out upon abuses, seems to weep
Over his country's wrongs, and, by his face,
This seeming brow of justice, did he win
The hearts of all that he did angle for.

2. O, he sits high in all the people's hearts; And that, which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchymy,

3.

Will change to virtue, and to worthiness.

O breath of public praise,

Short-liv'd and vain! oft gain'd without desert,
As often lost, unmerited!

SHAKSPEARE.

HAVARD.

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APPLAUSE-POPULARITY.

4. Who most to shun or hate mankind pretend,
Seek an admirer, or would fix a friend:
Abstract what others feel, what others think,
All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

5. He spoke, and bow'd; with muttering jaws The wondering circle grinn'd applause.

6.

The noisy praise
Of giddy crowds is changeable as winds;
Still vehement, and still without a cause;
Servant to change, and blowing in the tide
Of swoln success; but veering with the ebb,
It leaves the channel dry.

GAY's Fables.

7. Some shout him, and some hang upon his ear,
To gaze in 's eyes and bless him. Maidens wave
Their 'kerchiefs, and old women weep for joy;
While others, not so satisfied, unhorse
The gilded equipage, and, turning loose
His steeds, usurp a place they well deserve.

DRYDEN.

COWPER'S Task.

8. Oh popular applause! what heart of man
Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms?

9. In murmur'd pity, or loud-roar'd applause.

COWPER'S Task.

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

10. What if the popular breath should damn the sun
In his meridian glory?—dost thou think
His beams would fall less brightly?

DAWES' Athenia.

ARCHITECTURE, &c. - ARGUMENT, &c.

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ARCHITECTURE - BUILDING.

1. The princely dome, the column and the arch, The sculptur'd marble, and the breathing gold.

Did not with curious skill a pile erect
Of carved marble, touch, or porphyry,
But built a house for hospitality;

No sumptuous chimney-piece of shining stone
Invites the stranger's eye to gaze upon,

And coldly entertain his sight; but clear

AKENSIDE.

And cheerful flames cherish and warm him here.

3. Windows and doors in nameless sculpture drest,
With order, symmetry, or taste unblest ;
Forms like some bedlam statuary's dream,
The craz'd creation of misguided whim.

4.

CAREW.

BURNS.

The high embower'd roof,
With antique pillars, massy proof,
And storied windows richly dight,

1.

Casting a dim religious light.

MILTON.

ARGUMENT-SOPHISTRY.

But this juggler

Would think to chain my judgment, as mine eyes,
Obtruding false rules prank'd in reason's garb.

MILTON'S Comus.

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ARGUMENT – SOPHISTRY.

2. Enjoy thy gay wit and false rhetoric,

That hath so well been taught her dazzling fence;
Thou art not fit to hear thyself convinced.

3. Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail'd, revil'd-as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.

4. Dogmatic jargon learnt by heart,
Trite sentences, hard terms of art,
To vulgar ears seems so profound,
They fancy learning in the sound.

5. He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse;
He'd prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl;
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks committee-men and trustees.

MILTON'S Comus.

GAY's Fables.

GAY'S Fables.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

6. A man convinc'd against his will, Is of the same opinion still.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

7. Now with fine phrase, and foppery of tongue, More graceful action, and a smoother tone, The orator of fable and fair face

Will steal on your brib'd hearts.

YOUNG.

8. In subtle sophistry's laborious forge.

9. False eloquence, like the prismatic glass,
Its gaudy colours spreads in every place;
The face of nature we no more survey,
All glares alike, without distinction gay:-

YOUNG.