The cup goes round: And who so artful as to put it by! 'Tis long since Death had the majority. The Grave. Part ii. Line 449. The good he scorn'd Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.1 Line 586. Come, gentle Spring! ethereal Mildness! come. The Seasons. Spring. Line 1, Base Envy withers at another's joy, But who can paint Like Nature? Can imagination boast, Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Delightful task! to rear the tender thought, An elegant sufficiency, content, Falsely luxurious, will not man awake? Line 283. Line 465. Line 996. Line 1149. Line 1158. Summer. Line 47. But yonder comes the powerful king of day, 1 See Norris, page 281. Line 67. Line 81 Ships dim-discover'd dropping from the clouds. The Seasons. Summer. Line 946 And Mecca saddens at the long delay. Line 979. For many a day, and many a dreadful night, Line 1003. Sigh'd and look'd unutterable things. Line 1188. A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate Line 1285. So stands the statue that enchants the world, Line 1346.. Line 1516. Autumn. Line 2. Needs not the foreign aid of ornament, Cruel as death, and hungry as the grave. There studious let me sit, Line 204. Line 229. Line 233. Winter. Line 1. Line 393. And hold high converse with the mighty dead. The kiss, snatch'd hasty from the sidelong maid. 1 See Milton, page 234. Line 431. Line 625. Nam ut mulieres esse dicuntur nonnullæ inornatæ, quas id ipsum diceat, sic hæc subtilis oratio etiam incompta delectat (For as lack of adornment is said to become some women; so this subtle oration, though without embellishment, gives delight). — CICERO: Orator, 23, 78. 2 O Winter, ruler of the inverted year. - CowPER: The Task, book in Winter Evening, line 34. These as they change, Almighty Father! these Shade, unperceiv'd, so softening into shade. From seeming evil still educing good. Hymn. Line 1. Line 25. Line 114. Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. Line 118. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, Of dreams that wave before the half-shut eye; The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6. O fair undress, best dress! it checks no vein, Plac'd far amid the melancholy main. Scoundrel maxim. A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. A little round, fat, oily man of God. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny : Stanza 26. Stanza 30. Ibid. Stanza 68. Stanza 69. Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; Canto ii. Stanza 3 Health is the vital principle of bliss, The Castle of Indolence. Canto ii. Stanza 55, Forever, Fortune, wilt thou prove Whoe'er amidst the sons Song. When Britain first, at Heaven's command, Arose from out the azure main, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Alfred. Act ii. Sc. & Trembling all precipitate down dash'd, Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon. Line 102. The Ruins of Rome. Line 40. 1 The line was altered after the second edition to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." Live while you live, the epicure would say, Epigram on his Family Arms.1 Awake, my soul! stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on; And an immortal crown. Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race. JOHN WESLEY. 1703-1791. That execrable sum of all villanies commonly called a Slave Trade. Certainly this is a duty, not a sin. indeed next to godliness. Journal. Feb. 12, 1772. "Cleanliness is Sermon xciii. On Dress. I am always in haste, but never in a hurry.3 BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790. They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.5 Historical Review of Pennsylvania. 1 Dum vivimus vivamus (Let us live while we live). — ORTON: Life of Doddridge. 2 See Bacon, page 170. - a line attributed to Turgot, Given as a saying of Wesley, in the "Saturday Review," Nov. 28, 1874. Eripuit cœlo fulmen sceptrumque tyrannis (He snatched the lightning from heaven, and the sceptre from tyrants), and inscribed on Houdon's bust of Franklin. Frederick von der Trenck asserted on his trial, 1794, that he was the author of this line. 5 This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary period. It occurs |