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MCCCXVIII.

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of truth shows much that we can not, and all that we would not see. In a face dimpled with smiles, it has often discovered malevolence and envy, and detected under jewels and brocade, the frightful forms of poverty and distress. A fine hand of cards have changed before it into a thousand spectres of sickness, misery, and vexation; and immense sums of money, while the winner counted them with transport, have, at the first glimpse of this unwelcome lustre, vanished from before him.Mulso.

MCCCXIX.

He strikes no coin, 'tis true, but coins new phrases, And vends them forth as knaves vend gilded counters, Which wise men scorn, and fools accept in payment. old Play.

MCCCXX.

O you gods! what a number

Of men eat Timon, and he sees them not!
It grieves me, to see so many dip their meat
In one man's blood; and all the madness is,
He cheers them up too.

I wonder, men dare trust themselves with men!
Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for 't: the fellow, that
Sits next him now, parts bread with him, and pledges
The breath of him in undivided draught,

Is the readiest man to kill him: It has been proved.
If I

Were a huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes:
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
Timon of Athens-Shakspeare.

MCCCXXI.

The study of truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue; for there's no virtue which derives not

its original from truth; as, on the contrary, there is no vice which has not its beginning from a lie. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies.-Casaubon.

MCCCXXII.

Our cider and Perry

Make a man mad, but not merry;
It makes people windmill-pated,
And with crackers sophisticated;
And your hops, yeast and malt,
When they're mingled together,
Makes our fancies to halt

Or reel any whither.

It stuffs up our brains with froth and with yeast,

That if one would write but a verse for a bellman, He must study till Christmas for an eight shilling jest, These liquors won't raise, but drown and o'erwhelm On Canary-Brome.

man.

MCCCXXIII.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude: for one man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation which he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehensions of punishment.—Goldsmith.

MCCCXXIV.

Well the learned and the judicious know,
That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low,
As any one abstracted fop to show.

For, as when painters form a matchless face,

They from each fair one catch some different grace;
And shining features in one portrait blend,

To which no single beauty must pretend:

So poets oft do in one piece expose

Whole belles assemblees of coquets and beaux.

Epilogue to the Way of the World.—Congreve.

MCCCXXV.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, in moving, how exVOL. II.

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press and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?-Shakspeare.

MCCCXXVI.

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglects more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;

They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart.

Ben Jonson

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Ambition, 41, 221, 345, 378, 401,

411, 594, 861, 873, 1242

Ancestry, 406

Benefits, 278, 297, 301, 313, 317,
382, 469, 497, 501, 558, 604
Birth-day Ode, 562
Blessings of Man, 361

Books, 32, 349, 709, 725, 755, 945,
976, 1057, 1109, 1218, 1221, 1256
Borrowing, 336, 965
Bounty, 21, 1232
Brevity, 117

Bribery, 56, 618, 675,957
Business, 308

Canary, 1322

Candour, 233

Anger, 10, 66, 105, 118, 171, 302, Caprice, 615, 984

Antiquarians, 531, 677, 808

1031

Appetite, 152

Applause, 482

Artifice, 997

Argument, 128, 218

Astrology, 771

Atheism, 876

Avarice, 37, 70, 108, 119, 167, 293,
458, 485, 516, 544, 862, 1175
Authority, 360, 504, 624, 1305
Authors, 298, 318, 424, 435, 526,
538,578,667, 683,819, 986, 1004,
1074

Bankrupt, 174

Cards, 168, 269

Caution, 988, 1025

Ceremony, 1216, 1268, 1274

Charity, 1297

Cheerfulness, 441, 481

Chess, game of, 566

Chronology, 183

Colonies, 1300

Church, the, 638, 1251

Company, 160, 165, 194, 256, 447,
630, 679, 748, 1201
Complaisance, 422
Compliments, 597
Composition, 343
Conceit, 658,971

Confidence, 225

Conscience, 880, 1114

Bashfulness, 681

Barbers, 189

Bath, efficacy of, 359
Bear, the term, 137

Beauty, 183, 197, 241, 396, 610,
611,641, 723, 758, 810, 874, 913

Constancy,931

Content, 257, 334, 721, 780, 1122,
1126, 1204, 1239
Controversy, 305, 762, 909
Conversation, 42, 149, 404, 560,
583,652, 664, 679, 938,1111

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Deafness, remedy for, 420
Death, 576, 1161, 1170, 1185
Debt, 367, 619

Deceit, 151, 529

Deference, 67

Election, day of, 787
Eloquence, 98, 636,1131
Employment, 304, 1073
Emptiness, 699

English, Social Character of, 906
English Character, 1251
English Virtues, 656
Enthusiasm, 370, 854, 868
Envy, 109, 393, 523, 601, 690, 939,
1030, 1142, 1186
Epicureans, the, 1155
Epicurism, 286
Epigrammatist, 273
Equanimity, 403, 834
Equivocation, 27
Esquires, 282, 456
Example, 177, 1052, 1120
Excellence, varieties of, 1266
Excess, 480, 1087
Excuse, 647

Exile, remedy for, 1152
Expectation, 892
Expense, 952

Experience, 321, 333, 400, 573,
1032, 1317

Eye, the, 651,779, 885, 1260
Extremes, 537, 960

Fame, 15, 299, 363, 459, 718, 728,
753, 794, 918, 1237

Dependents, 486, 515, 605, 1203, Fan, uses of, 30

1224

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Dreams, 551, 933

Dress,457, 617, 687, 1172

Fancy, 1205

Fashion, 5, 380, 1123

Favourite, 895, 922

Fear, 204, 390, 732, 757, 1323

Fiddle-playing, 144

Filial Obedience, 1192

Finery, 448, 1240

Firmament, the, 994

Flattery, 258, 322, 487, 559, 707,
806, 1309

Fools, 72, 143, 181, 288, 311, 584,
644, 831, 1090

Foppery, 1288

Foreign Novelty, 1038

Drunkenness, 89, 90, 91, 508, 572, Forgiveness, 59, 60, 750

703, 823, 856, 866, 1220

Dulness, 11, 593, 1217

Earth, destruction of, 905
Echo Song, 898
Economy, 368, 645
Egotism, 332, 465

Fortune,9,634, 775, 783, 983, 1235,
1301

French, habits of the, 510
Friend, on the death of, 1014
Friend in need, 1264, 1290
Friendship, 57, 172, 327, 484, 654,
662, 672, 802, 827, 985, 1061,
1081, 1137, 1219

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