'T is elder Scripture, writ by God's own hand,—
Scripture authentic! uncorrupt by man.
Night Thoughts. Night x. Line 644

An undevout astronomer is mad.
The course of Nature is the art of God.1
The love of praise, howe'er conceal'd by art,
Reigns more or less, and glows in ev'ry heart.

Line 771.

Line 1267.

Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 51.

Some for renown, on scraps of learning dote,
And think they grow immortal as they quote.
Titles are marks of honest men, and wise;
The fool or knave that wears a title lies.
They that on glorious ancestors enlarge,
Produce their debt instead of their discharge.
None think the great unhappy but the great.2
Unlearned men of books assume the care,
As eunuchs are the guardians of the fair.
The booby father craves a booby son,

Line 89.

Line 145.

Line 147.

Line 238.

Satire ii. Line 83.

And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd,
And men talk only to conceal the mind.3

1 See Sir Thomas Browne, page 218.

Line 165.

Line 207.

2 See Nicholas Rowe, page 301.

3 Speech was made to open man to man, and not to hide him to promote commerce, and not betray it. LLOYD: State Worthies (1665; edited by Whitworth), vol. i. p. 503.

Speech was given to the ordinary sort of men whereby to communicate their mind; but to wise men, whereby to conceal it. - ROBERT SOUTH: Sermon, April 30, 1676.

The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal · GOLDSMITH: The Bee, No. 3. (Oct. 20, 1759.)

them.

Ils ne se servent de la pensée que pour autoriser leurs injustices, et emploient les paroles que pour déguiser leurs pensées (Men use thought only to justify their wrong doings, and employ speech only to conceal their thoughts). VOLTAIRE: Dialogue xiv. Le Chapon et la Poularde (1766).

When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated name, on the chance of reclaiming it if it took. Thus he assigned to Talleyrand, in the "Nain Jaune," the phrase, “Speech was given to man to disguise his thoughts."— FOURNIER L'Esprit dans l'Histoire.

Be wise with speed;

A fool at forty is a fool indeed.

Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282.

And waste their music on the savage race.1

Satire v. Line 228.

For her own breakfast she 'll project a scheme,
Nor take her tea without a stratagem.

Satire vi. Line 190.

Think naught a trifle, though it small appear;
Small sands the mountain, moments make the year,
And trifles life.

One to destroy is murder by the law,
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe ;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
War's glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

Line 208.

Satire vii. Line 55.

How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

The man

that makes a character makes foes.

Line 97.

To Mr. Pope. Epistle i. Line 28.

Their feet through faithless leather met the dirt,
And oftener chang'd their principles than shirt.
Accept a miracle instead of wit,
See two dull lines with Stanhope's pencil writ.

Line 277.

Lines written with the Diamond Pencil of Lord Chesterfield,

Time elaborately thrown away.

The Last Day. Book i.

There buds the promise of celestial worth.
In records that defy the tooth of time.

Book ini.

The Statesman's Creed.

Great let me call him, for he conquered me.

The Revenge. Act i. Sc. 1.

Souls made of fire, and children of the sun,
With whom revenge is virtue.

Act v. Sc. 2

1 And waste their sweetness on the desert air. - GRAY: Elegy, stanza 14. CHURCHILL: Gotham, book ii, line 20.

The blood will follow where the knife is driven,
The flesh will quiver where the pincers tear.
The Revenge. Act v. Sc. 2

And friend received with thumps upon the back.1

Universal Passion

BISHOP BERKELEY. 1684-1753.

Westward the course of empire takes its way;'
The four first acts already past,

A fifth shall close the drama with the day:
Time's noblest offspring is the last.

2

On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America.

Our youth we can have but to-day,

We may always find time to grow old.

Can Love be controlled by Advice!8

[Tar water] is of a nature so mild and benign and proportioned to the human constitution, as to warm without heating, to cheer but not inebriate.*

Siris. Par. 217.

JANE BRERETON. 1685-1740.

The picture placed the busts between
Adds to the thought much strength;
Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly 's at full length.

On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of
Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.5

The man that hails you Tom or Jack,

And proves, by thumping on your back.

2 See Daniel, page 39.

COWPER: On Friendship.

Westward the star of empire takes its way. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS,

Oration at Plymouth, 1802.

8 AIKEN: Vocal Poetry (London, 1810).

4 Cups

That cheer but not inebriate.

COWPER: The Task, book it.

5 DYCE: Specimens of British Poetesses. (This epigram is generally ascribed to Chesterfield. See Campbell, "English Poets," note, p. 521.)

AARON HILL. 1685-1750.

First, then, a woman will or won't, depend on 't;
If she will do 't, she will; and there's an end on 't.
But if she won't, since safe and sound your trust is,
Fear is affront, and jealousy injustice. Zara. Epilogue
Tender-handed stroke a nettle,

And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.

'Tis the same with common natures:
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;
But be rough as nutmeg-graters,

And the rogues obey you well.

Verses written on a window in Scotland.

Just

THOMAS TICKELL. 1686-1740.

men, by whom impartial laws were given; And saints who taught and led the way to heaven.

On the Death of Mr. Addison. Line 41.

Nor e'er was to the bowers of bliss conveyed
A fairer spirit or more welcome shade.

There taught us how to live; and (oh, too high
The price for knowledge !) taught us how to die.

Line 45.

Line 81.

1 The following lines are copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury:

Where is the man who has the power and skill

To stem the torrent of a woman's will?

For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't;

And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't.

The Examiner, May 31, 1829.

2 He who should teach men to die, would at the same time teach them to live.-MONTAIGNE: Essays, book i. chap. ix.

I have taught you, my dear flock, for above thirty years how to live

The sweetest garland to the sweetest maid.

To a Lady with a Present of Flowers

I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay;

I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.

Colin and Lucy.

SAMUEL MADDEN. 1687-1765.

Some write their wrongs in marble: he more just,
Stoop'd down serene and wrote them in the dust, -
Trod under foot, the sport of every wind,
Swept from the earth and blotted from his mind.
There, secret in the grave, he bade them lie,
And grieved they could not 'scape the Almighty eye.

Boulter's Monument.

Words are men's daughters, but God's sons are things.1

ALEXANDER POPE.

1688-1744.

Ibid.

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan."

Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 1.

and I will show you in a very short time how to die. -SANDYS: Anglorum Speculum, p. 903.

Teach him how to live,

And, oh still harder lesson! how to die.

PORTEUS: Death, line 316.

He taught them how to live and how to die. - SOMERVILLE: In Memory

of the Rev. Mr. Moore.

1 See Herbert, page 206.

2 See Milton, page 223.

There is no theme more plentiful to scan
Than is the glorious goodly frame of man.

DU BARTAS: Days and Weeks, third day.