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
29. Large is your bounty, and your soul sincere;
Heaven does a recompense as largely send:
You give to misery all you have--a tear;
You gain from heaven, 'tis all you ask--a friend.
GRAY.
30. You worship God with inward zeal, and serve him in each deed;
Yet will not blame another's faith, nor have one martyr bleed.
ELIZA COOK.
31. Silent when glad, affectionate though shy;
And now your look is most demurely sad;
And now you laugh aloud, yet none know why,--
Some deem you wondrous wise, and some believe you mad.
BEATTIE--_Minstrel_.
32. You act upon the prudent plan,
"Say little, and hear all you can:"
Safe policy, but hateful.
COWPER.
33. You are a gentleman of excellent breeding, admirable discourse,
generally allowed for your many warlike, courtlike, and learned
preparations.
_Merry Wives of Windsor._
34. So gentle, yet so brisk, so wondrous sweet,
Just fit to prattle at a lady's feet.
CHURCHILL.
35. Lord of yourself, though not of lands,
You, having nothing, yet have all.
SIR HENRY WOTTON.
36. No change comes o'er thy noble brow,
Though ruin is around thee;
Thine eye-beam burns as proudly now
As when the laurel crown'd thee.
MRS. CHILD.
37. Some have too much, yet still they crave;
You little have, yet seek no more;
They are but poor, though much they have,
And you are rich with little store.
They poor, you rich; they beg, you give;
They lack, you lend; they pine, you live.
LORD VAUX.
38. With every shifting gale your course you ply,
Forever sunk too low or borne too high.
POPE.
39. You will not bow unto the common things
Men make their idols. You will stand apart
From common men; your sensual appetite
Shall be subservient to your loftier soul.
MARY HOWITT.
40. Sloth, the nurse of vices,
And rust of action, is a stranger to you.
MASSINGER.
41. The worth of the three kingdoms I defy
To lower you to the standard of a lie.
COWPER.
42. I have some comfort in this fellow;
He hath no drowning mark upon him; his complexion
Is perfect gallows.
_Tempest._
43. You lacke no witte,
You speke whatte bee the trouthe,
And whatte all see is ryghte.
ROWLEY--(_Chatterton._)
44. A man resolved and steady to his trust,
Inflexible to ill, and obstinately just.
DR. WATTS.
45. I know thy generous temper well;
Fling but the appearance of dishonor on it,
It straight takes fire, and mounts into a blaze.
ADDISON--_Cato._
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