Truly, sir, and pleasure will be paid, one time [or another. TWELFTH NIGHT ii. 4. PLEASURE seizes the whole man who addicts himself to it, and will not give him leisure for any good office in life which contradicts the gaiety of the present hour. You may indeed observe in people of pleasure a certain complacency and absence of all severity, which the habit of a loose and unconcerned life gives them; but tell the man of pleasure your secret wants, cares, or sorrows, and you will find that he has given up the delicacy of his passions to the craving of his appetites. WHO is the honest man? STEELE. He that doth still, and strongly, good pursue; To God, his neighbour, and himself most true. Whom neither force nor fawning can Unpin, or wrench from giving all their due. Who never melts or thaws At close temptations. His goodness sets not, And is their virtue. When the day is done The sun to others writeth laws Virtue is his sun. GEORGE HERBERT. I I say, there is no darkness but ignorance. TWELFTH NIGHT iv. 2. KNOW no disease of the soul but ignorance; not of the arts and sciences, but of itself: yet relating to those it is a pernicious evil, the darkener of man's life, the disturber of his reason, and the common confounder of truth; with which a man goes groping in the dark, no otherwise than if he were blind. Great understandings are most racked and troubled with it; nay, sometimes they will rather choose to die than not to know the things they study for. BEN JONSON. O SUCH a life as he resolved to live, When he had learned it, When he had gathered all books had to give! BROWNING. Whose youth and freshness Wrinkles Apollo's, and makes stale the morning. TROIL. AND CRESS. ii. 2. THE very beautiful rarely love at all. Those precious images are placed above the reach of the Passions. Time alone is permitted to efface them; Time, the father of the Gods, and even their consumer. LANDOR. Was this the face that launched a thousand ships, And burnt the topless towers of Ilium? Sweet Helen, make me immortal with a kiss. Her lips suck forth my soul! see where it flies; Come, Helen, come, give me my soul again! MARLOWE. Τ The front of heaven was full of fiery shapes, I KING HENRY IV. iii. I. IT had been wild weather when I left Rome, and all across the Campagna the clouds were sweeping in sulphurous blue, with a clap of thunder or two, and breaking gleams of sun along the Claudian aqueduct, lighting up the infinity of its arches like the bridge of Chaos. But as I climbed the long slope of the Alban Mount, the storm swept finally to the north, and the noble outline of the domes of Albano, and graceful darkness of its ilexgrove, rose against pure streaks of alternate blue and amber the upper sky gradually flushing through the last fragments of rain-cloud in deep, palpitating azure, half æther and half dew. RUSKIN. As the dissolving warmth of dawn may fold A half unfrozen dew-globe, green, and gold, And crystalline, till it becomes a wingèd mist, And wanders up the vault of the blue day, Outlives the noon, and on the sun's last ray Hangs o'er the sea, a fleece of fire and amethyst. SHELLEY. The heavens themselves, the planets and this centre, Observe degree, priority, and place, Insisture, course, proportion, season, form, TROIL. AND CRESS. i. 3. HE reason why first we do admire those things THE which are greatest, and second those things which are ancientest, is because the one are least distant from the infinite substance, the other from the infinite continuance, of God. HOOKER. STERN lawgiver! yet thou dost wear As is the smile upon thy face: Flowers laugh before thee on their beds, Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong; And the most ancient Heavens, through thee, are fresh and strong. WORDSWORTH. |