Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
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Oracles from the Poets: A Fanciful Diversion for the Drawing Room
Amusements; Fortune-telling; Quotations, English
39. In that fair stand, his forehead, Love still bends
His double bow, and round his arrows sends;
In that tall grove, his hair, those globy rings
He flying curls, and crispeth with his wings.
BEN JONSON.
40. He's fat, and scant o' breath.
_Hamlet._
41. Lordly look'd and lordly limb'd is he,--
A frame of iron, a right arm long and stark,
A rough, loud voice, a visage somedale dark,
A heart which soars as dangers soar, and ne'er
Sinks save in peace.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
42. Tall is his frame, his forehead high,
Still and mysterious is his eye;
His look is like a wintry day
When storms and winds have sunk away.
HOGG--_Queen's Wake_.
43. He chats like popinjay,
And struts with phiz tremendously erect.
TENNENT--_Anster Fair_.
44. His large fair front, and eye sublime, declare
Absolute rule, and hyacinthine locks,
Round from his parted forelock, manly hang
Clustering.
MILTON--_Paradise Lost_.
45. A sweet-faced man; a proper man as one shall see in a summer's
day; a most lovely, gentleman-like man.
_Midsummer Night's Dream._
46. Dark deep eyes, and lips
Whose motions gift the air they breathe with love.
SHELLEY.
47. Full long are both his spindle-shanks, and lean
Just like a walking-stick--no calf is seen.
CHAUCER.
48. Faster than his tongue
Doth make offence, his eye doth heal it up.
_As You Like It._
49. His eyes are like the eagle's, yet sometimes
Liker the dove's; and at his will he wins
All hearts with softness, or with spirit awes.
HOME--_Douglass_.
50. There's a cold bearing,
And grave, severe aspect about the man,
That makes our spirits pay him such respect,
As though he dwelt 'neath age's silvery pent-house,
Despite his unripe years.
FANNY KEMBLE.
51. Young and fair,
Yet a man;--with crisped hair,
Cast in thousand snares and rings
For Love's fingers, and his wings:
Chesnut color, or more slack
Gold, upon a ground of black.
BEN JONSON.
52. A brow half martial, and half diplomatic,
An eye upsoaring like an eagle's wings.
HALLECK.
53. He capers, he dances, he has eyes of youth;
He writes verses, he speaks holiday,
He smells April and May.
_Merry Wives of Windsor._
54. 'Tis not his talent to conceal his thoughts,
And carry smiles and sunshine in his face,
When discontent sits heavy at his heart.
ADDISON--_Cato_.
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