A life spent worthily should be measured by a nobler line, by deeds, not years.1 Pizarro. Act iv. Sc. 1. The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.2 Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Sheridaniana. You write with ease to show your breeding, Clio's Protest. Life of Sheridan (Moore). Vol. i. p. 155. PHILIP FRENEAU. 1752-1832. The Indian Burying-Ground. The hunter and the deer a shade. To the Memory of the Americans who fell at Eutaw. Oh, rather give me commentators plain, The Parish Register. Parti. Introduction. 1 He who grown aged in this world of woe, BYRON Childe Harold, canto iii. stanza 5. We live in deeds, not years; in thoughts, not breaths. - BAILEY: Festus. A Country Town. Who well lives, long lives: for this age of ours 2 On peut dire que son esprit brille aux dépens de say that his wit shines by the help of his memory). livre iii. chap. xi. -- Fourth Day. Book ii. sa mémoire (One may LE SAGE: Gil Blas, 8 This line was appropriated by Campbell in "O'Connor's Child." 4 When Prussia hurried to the field, And snatched the spear, but left the shield. SCOTT: Marmion, Introduction to canto iii. 5 See Young, page 311. Her air, her manners, all who saw admir'd; The Parish Register. Part ii. Marriages. In this fool's paradise he drank delight.' The Borough. Letter xii. Players. Books cannot always please, however good; Letter xxiv. Schools. In idle wishes fools supinely stay; The Birth of Flattery. Cut and come again. Tales. Tale vii. The Widow's Tale. Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.2 Tale xiv. The Struggles of Conscience. But 't was a maxim he had often tried, That right was right, and there he would abide.3 Tale xv. The Squire and the Priest. 'T was good advice, and meant, my son, Be good. He tried the luxury of doing good.* Tale xxi. The Learned Boy. Tales of the Hall. Book iii. Boys at School. To sigh, yet not recede; to grieve, yet not repent.5 Ibid. And took for truth the test of ridicule." 1 See Appendix, page 858. Book viii. The Sisters. 2 T is better to have loved and lost, TENNYSON: In Memoriam, xxvii. 8 For right is right, since God is God. - FABER: The Right must win. 4 See Goldsmith, page 394. 5 To sigh, yet feel no pain. - MOORE: The Blue Stocking. 6 See Appendix, page 394. Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face.1 Tales of the Hall. Book xvii. The Widow. GEORGE BARRINGTON. 1755-. True patriots all; for be it understood Prologue written for the Opening of the Play-house at HENRY LEE. 1756-1816. To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen. Memoirs of Lee. Eulogy on Washington, Dec. 26, 1799,3 J. P. KEMBLE. 1757-1823. Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love, But why did you kick me down stairs? * The Panel. Act i. Sc. 1. 1 Touch us gently, Time. - B. W. PROCTER: Touch us gently, Time. Time has laid his hand Upon my heart, gently. 2 See Farquhar, page 305. LONGFELLOW: The Golden Legend, iv. 8 To the memory of the Man, first in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his fellow-citizens. Resolutions presented to the United States' House of Representatives, on the Death of Washington, December, 1799. The eulogy was delivered a week later. Marshall, in his "Life of Washington," vol. v. p. 767, says in a note that these resolutions were prepared by Colonel Henry Lee, who was then not in his place to read them. General Robert E. Lee, in the Life of his father (1869), prefixed to the Report of his father's "Memoirs of the War of the Revolution," gives (p. 5) the expression "fellow-citizens;" but on p. 52 he says: "But there is a line, a single line, in the Works of Lee which would hand him over to immortality, though he had never written another: First in war, first in peace, and first in the hearts of his countrymen' will last while language lasts." 4 Altered from Bickerstaff's "Tis Well 't is no Worse." The lines are also found in Debrett's " Asylum for Fugitive Pieces," vol. i. p. 15. HORATIO NELSON. 1758-1805. In the battle off Cape St. Vincent, Nelson gave orders for boarding the "San Josef," exclaiming "Westminster Abbey, or victory!" Life of Nelson (Southey). Vol. i. p. 93. England expects every man to do his duty.1 Vol. ii. p. 131. ROBERT BURNS. 1759-1796. Auld Nature swears the lovely dears Some books are lies frae end to end. Green grow the Rashes. Death and Dr. Hornbook. Some wee short hours ayont the twal. And leave us naught but grief and pain When chill November's surly blast Man's inhumanity to man Makes countless thousands mourn. To a Mouse. Man was made to Mourn. Ibid. 1 This famous sentence is thus first reported: "Say to the fleet, England confides that every man will do his duty." Captain Pasco, Nelson's flaglieutenant, suggested to substitute "expects" for "confides," which was adopted. Captain Blackwood, who commanded the "Euryalis," says that the correction suggested was from "Nelson expects to "England expects." 2 Man was made when Nature was But an apprentice, but woman when she Was a skilful mistress of her art. Cupid's Whirligig (1607). Gars auld claes look amaist as weel's the new. The Cotter's Saturday Night. Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale. He wales a portion with judicious care; And "Let us worship God," he says with solemn air. Ibid. Ibid. Perhaps Dundee's wild-warbling measures rise, Ibid. From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs, Ibid. For a' that, and a' that, And twice as muckle 's a' that. O Life! how pleasant is thy morning, Like schoolboys at th' expected warning, Misled by fancy's meteor ray, By passion driven; But yet the light that led astray And like a passing thought, she fled. In light away. The Jolly Beggars. Epistle to James Smith. Affliction's sons are brothers in distress; A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss! His locked, lettered, braw brass collar 1 See Fletcher, page 183. The Vision. Ibid. A Winter Night. The Twa Dogs. |