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But dreams full oft are found of real events The form and shadows. - [Dreams] He is so full of pleasant anecdote; So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, Time vanishes before him as he speaks, And ruddy morning through the lattice peeps Ere night seems well begun. - [Conversation] Heaven oft in mercy smites, even when the blow severest is. - [Adversity] I am as one Who doth attempt some lofty mountain's height, And having gained what to the upcast eye The summit's point appear'd, astonished sees Its cloudy top, majestic and enlarged, Towering aloft, as distant as before. - [Ambition] I believe this earth on which we stand is but the vestibule to glorious mansions through which a moving crowd forever press. - [Earth] I would, God knows, in a poor woodman's hut Have spent my peaceful days, and shared my crust With her who would have cheer'd me, rather far Than on this throne; but being what I am, I'll be it nobly. - [Conduct] It ever is the marked propensity of restless and aspiring minds to look into the stretch of dark futurity. - [Futurity] Men's actions to futurity appear but as the events to which they are conjoined do give them consequence. - [Action] My day is closed! the gloom of night is come! a hopeless darkness settles over my fate. - [Despair] O mysterious Night! thou art not silent; many tongues halt thou. - [Night] She who only finds her self-esteem In others' admiration, begs an alms; Depends on others for her daily food, And is the very servant of her slaves; Tho' oftentimes, in a fantastic hour, O'er men she may a childish pow'r exert, Which not ennobles but degrades her state. - [Coquette] That look'd As though an angel, in his upward flight, Had left his mantle floating in mid-air. - [Clouds] The inward sighs of humble penitence Rise to the ear of Heaven, when peal'd hymns Are scatter'd with the sounds of common air. - [Devout] The mind doth shape itself to its own wants, and can bear all things. - [Mind] The plainest case in many words entangling. - [Lawyers] The visions of a busy brain. - [Dreams] There is a sight all hearts beguiling-- A youthful mother to her infant smiling, Who with spread arms and dancing feet, A cooing voice, returns its answer sweet. - [Mothers] This pure air Braces the listless nerves, and warms the blood: I feel in freedom here. - [Country] Though duller thoughts succeed, the bliss e'en of a moment still is bliss. - [Bliss] 'Tis ever thus when favours are denied; All had been granted but the thing we beg: And still some great unlikely substitute-- Your life, your soul, your all of earthly good-- Is proffer'd, in the room of one small boon. - [Favors] To make the cunning artless, tame the rude, subdue the haughty, shake the undaunted soul; yea, put a bridle in the lion's mouth, and lead him forth as a domestic cur,--these are the triumphs of all-powerful beauty. - [Attractiveness : Beauty] To struggle when hope is banished! To live when life's salt is gone! To dwell in a dream that's vanished! To endure, and go calmly on! The brave man is not he who feels no fear, For that were stupid and irrational; But he, whose noble soul its fear subdues, And bravely dares the danger nature shrinks from. - [Courage] Twice it call'd, so loudly call'd, With horrid strength, beyond the pitch of nature; And murder! murder! was the dreadful cry, A third time it return'd with feeble strength, But o' the sudden ceas'd, as though the words Were smother'd rudely in the grappl'd throat, And all was still again, save the wild blast Which at a distance growl'd-- Oh! it will never from my mind depart! That dreadful cry, all i' the instant still'd. - [Murder] Words of affection, howsoe'er express'd, The latest spoken still are deem'd the best. - Address to Miss Agnes Baillie on her Birthday (l. 126) [Words] Some men are born to feast, and not to fight; Whose sluggish minds, e'en in fair honor's field, Still on their dinner turn-- Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home, And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword. - Basil (act I, sc. 1) [Eating] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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