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For friendship, of itself a holy tie, Is made more sacred by adversity. - The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 47) [Friendship] For your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me. - The Maiden Queen (act I, sc. 2) [Ignorance] I am resolved to grow fat and look young till forty, and then slip out of the world with the first wrinkle and the reputation of five and twenty. - The Maiden Queen (act III, sc. 1) [Women] And plenty makes us poor. - The Medal (l. 126) [Poverty] A very merry, dancing, drinking, Laughing, quaffing, and unthinking time. - The Secular Masque (l. 40) [Merriment] Joy rul'd the day, and Love the night. - The Secular Masque (l. 82) [Joy] Bless the hand that gave the blow. - The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1) [Hand] Like a led victim, to my death I'll go, And dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. - The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 1, l. 64) [Death] He's a sure card. - The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 2) [Cards] Second thoughts, they say, are best. - The Spanish Friar (act II, sc. 2) [Thought] Nor can his blessed soul look down from heaven, Or break the eternal sabbath of his rest. - The Spanish Friar (act V, sc. 2) [Heaven] The glorious lamp of heaven, the radiant sun, Is Nature's eye. - The Story of Acis, Polyphemus, and Galatea (l. 165), from Ovid "Metamorphoses", bk. xiii [Sun] But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. - The Tempest--Prologue [Shakespeare] Long stood the noble youth oppress'd with awe, And stupid at the wondrous things he saw, Surpassing common faith, transgressing nature's law. - Theodore and Honoria (l. 217) [Wonder] The clouds dispell'd, the sky resum'd her light, And Nature stood recover'd of her fright. But fear, the last of ills, remain'd behind, And horrow heavy sat on every mind. - Theodore and Honoria (l. 336) [Fear] And that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind. - Theodore and Honoria (l. 427) [Women] Content with poverty, my soul I arm; And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. - Third Book of Horace (ode 29) [Poverty] Thou spring'st a leak already in thy crown, A flaw is in thy ill-bak'd vessel found; 'Tis hollow, and returns a jarring sound, Yet thy moist clay is pliant to command, Unwrought, and easy to the potter's hand: Now take the mould; now bend thy mind to feel The first sharp motions of the forming wheel. - Third Satire of Persius (l. 35) [Pottery] Out of the solar walk and Heaven's highway. - Threnodia Augustalis [Sun] Ill news is wing'd with fate, and flies apace. - Threnodia Augustalis (l. 49) [News] As when the dove returning bore the mark Of earth restored to the long labouring ark; The relics of mankind, secure at rest, Open every window to receive the guest, And the fair bearer of the message bless'd. - To Her Grace of Ormond (l. 70) [Doves] So liv'd our sires, ere doctors learn'd to kill, And multiplied with theirs the weekly bill. - To John Dryden, Esq. (l. 71) [Medicine] Maintain your post: That's all the fame you need; For 'tis impossible you should proceed. - To Mr. Congreve, on his Comedy "The Double Dealer" [Duty] Hard features every bungler can command: To draw true beauty shows a master's hand. - To Mr. Lee, on his Alexander (l. 53) [Painting] Wit will shine Through the harsh cadence of a rugged line. - To the Memory of Mr. Oldham [Wit] Displaying page 20 of 21 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 [20] 21
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