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
58. You call the time misspent that is bestow'd
On loud-tongued orators, whose art it is
To launch their hearers upon passion's tide,
And drive them on by gusts of windy words.
CUMBERLAND--_Calvary_.
59. You do despise a _liar_ as you do despise one that is false, or
as you despise one that is not true.
_Merry Wives of Windsor._
60. _Songs and unbaked poetry_,
Such as the dabblers of our time contrive,
That has no weight, nor wheel to move the mind,
Nor indeed nothing but an empty sound.
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER--_The Elder Brother_.
WHERE OR WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESIDENCE?
The World was all before her, where to choose
Her place of rest, and Providence her guide.
MILTON.
The _mind_ is its own place, and of itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.
MILTON.
WHERE OR WHAT WILL BE YOUR RESIDENCE?
1. Near some fair town you'll have a _private seat_,
Built uniform, not little, nor too great;
It shall within no other things contain,
But what are useful, necessary, plain;
A little garden grateful to the eye,
While a cool rivulet runs murmuring by.
_Pomfret's Choice._
2. Amongst the vines,
See'st thou not where thy _villa_ stands? The moonbeam
Strikes on the granite column, and mountains
Rise sheltering round it.
LADY FLORA HASTINGS.
3. Child of the _town_ and _bustling street_,
What woes and snares await thy feet!
Thy paths are paved for many miles,
Thy groves and hills are peaks and tiles.
ALLAN CUNNINGHAM.
4. _A warm but simple home_, where thou'lt enjoy
With one, who shares thy pleasures and thy heart,
Sweet converse, sipping calm the fragrant lymph
Which neatly is prepared.
COWPER.
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