JOMMENTATORS - COMPENSATION. How commentators each dark passage shun, 719 COMPARISONS. 79 Young: Love of Fame. Satire vii. Line 97 Comparisons are odorous. 720 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 5. When the moon shone, we did not see the candle; Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc 1 In virtues nothing earthly could surpass her, 722 COMPASSION - see Pity. Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St 17. Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. Shaks.: Titus And. Act iv. Sc. 1. Press not a falling man too far; 'tis virtue. Too little care of this! Take physic, pomp; 725 COMPENSATION. Shaks.: King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. Under the storm and the cloud to-day, To-morrow the stone shall be rolled away, I know that the sunshine shall follow the rain. Joaquin Miller: For Princess Maud The fiercest agonies have shortest reign; 727 William Cullen Bryant: Mutation There is a day of sunny rest For every dark and troubled night; And grief may hide an evening guest, But joy shall come with early light. 728 William C. Bryant: Blessed are They that Mourn Oh, deem not they are blest alone A blessing for the eyes that weep. 729 William C. Bryant: Blessed are They that Mourn Here is the longing, the vision, The hopes that so swiftly remove; The feast, and the fulness of love. Alice Cary: Here and Thera One launched a ship, but she was wrecked at sea; Jean Ingelow: Compensation. As love inspires with strength th' enraptur'd thrusn. 733 O yet we trust that somehow good Ebenezer Elliott: Corn Law Hymns. And joy with grief; Divinest compensations come, Through thorns of judgment mercies bloom 737 COMPLEXION. Whittier: Anniversary Poem, St. 15. 'Tis beauty truly blent, whose red and white Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on. 738 Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act 1. Sc. 5 COMPLIMENTS. The lustre in your eye, heaven in your cheek, 739 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iv. Sc. 4 CONCEALMENT - -see Love. He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen, Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. 740 CONCLUSION. Shaks.: Othello Act iii. Sc. 3. O, most lame and impotent conclusion? 741 CONDUCT. Shaks.: Othello. Act ii. Sc. I. Have more than thou showest, Shaks.: King Lear. Act i. Sc. 4. The man who consecrates his hours By vig'rous effort and an honest aim, At once he draws the sting of life and death; He walks with nature, and her paths are peace. 743 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 187 To whom do lions cast their gentle looks? 744 CONFESSION. Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act ii. Sc. 2 Come, now again thy woes impart, CONFIDENCE. Crabbe: Hall of Justice. Pt. i I will believe Thou wilt not utter what thou dost not know; And so far will I trust thee. 746 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Actii. Sc. 3 Confidence is conqueror of men; victorious both over them and in them; The iron will of one stout heart shall make a thousand quail : A feeble dwarf, dauntlessly resolved, will turn the tide of battle, And rally to a nobler strife the giants that had fled : The tenderest child, unconscious of a fear, will shame the man to danger, And when he dared it, danger died, and faith had vanquished fear. 747 CONSCIENCE. Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Faith. Leave her to heaven, And to those thorns that in her bosom lodge, 748 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. Thus conscience does make cowards of us all; Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1. 749 Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 750 Thrice is he arm'd, that hath his quarrel just; And he but naked, though lock'd up in steel, Whose conscience with injustice is corrupted. 751 Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 6 Shaks.: 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 2. I feel within me A peace above all earthly dignities, 752 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. Unnatural deeds Do breed unnatural troubles: Infected minds Shaks.: Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1. Shaks.: King John. Act iv. Sc. 2 Conscience is harder than our enemies, 755 George Eliot: Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i He that has light within his own clear breast, 756 Milton: Comus. Line 381. O conscience, into what abyss of fears Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. x. Line 842 Have equal power to adjourn, 758 Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto ii. Line 317. One self-approving hour whole years outweighs 759 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 255. Some scruple rose, but thus he eas'd his thought, I'll now give sixpence where I gave a groat; Where once I went to church, I'll now go twice, And am so clear too of all other vice. 760 But, at sixteen, the conscience rarely gnaws So much, as when we call our old debts in At sixty years, and draw the accounts of evil, And find a deuced balance with the devil. 761 Pope: Moral Essays. Epis. iii. Line 265. Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 167 A quiet conscience makes one so serene! Byron: Don Juan. Canto i. St. 83 Though thy slumber may be deep, There are shades that will not vanish, There are thoughts thou canst not banish. 763 Byron: Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1 There is no future pang Byron: Manfred. Act iii. Sc. 1 Can deal that justice on the self-condemn'd 764 Yet still there whispers the small voice within, Heard through gain's silence, and o'er glory's din: Man's conscience is the oracle of God! 765 Byron: Island. Canto i. St. 6 |