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
A. C. COXE.
27. Friendship shall still thy evening feasts adorn,
And blooming peace shall ever bless thy morn
Succeeding years their happy race still run,
And age unheeded by delight come on.
PRIOR.
28. GENTLEMAN.--She's fair and fause that caused your smart,
You will lo'e her mickle and lang;
She will break her vow, she will break your heart,
And ye may e'en go hang.
BURNS.
28. LADY.--Gay hope is yours by fancy led,
Less pleasing when possess'd,
The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.
GRAY.
29. Single as a stray glove.
FANNY KEMBLE.
30. GENTLEMAN.--You will not waste your spring of youth
In idle dalliance. You will plant rich seeds
To blossom in your manhood, and bear fruit
When you are old.
HILLHOUSE.
30. LADY.--To shrine within your heart's core one dear image,
To think of it all day, to dream all night.
MARY HOWITT.
31. The duties of a wedded life
Hath heaven ordain'd for thee.
SOUTHEY.
32. To love,
Love fondly, truly, fervently, and pine
When you have told your love, and sue in vain.
WORDSWORTH.
33. Hope, and health, and "learned leisure,"
Friends, books, thy thoughts.
BARRY CORNWALL.
34. Toiling, rejoicing, sorrowing;
Each morn will see some task begun,
Each evening see it close;
Something attempted, something done,
Will earn a night's repose.
LONGFELLOW.
35. You will go east, you will go west,
To seek for what you will not find,--
A heart at peace with its own thoughts,
A quiet and contented mind.
You will seek high, you will seek low,
But your search will be in vain.
LANDON.
36. A course of days composing happy months,
And they as happy years; the present still
So like the past, and both so firm a pledge
Or a congenial future, that the wheels
Of pleasure move without the aid of hope.
WORDSWORTH.
37. You will tread the path of fame,
And barter peace to win a name.
S. G. GOODRICH.
38. Each hour, each minute of your life
Shall be a golden holiday; and if a cloud
O'ercast thee, 'twill be light as gossamer.
G. COLEMAN.
39. A little, and content;
The faithful friend, and cheerful night,
The social scene of dear delight,
The conscience pure, the temper gay,
The musing eve and busy day.
THOMAS WARTON.
40. Live where your father lived, die where he dies;
Live happy, die happy.
POLLOK.
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