So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar.1 Commentaries. Job iii. To their own second thoughts.2 He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel. Our creature comforts. None so deaf as those that will not hear. They that die by famine die by inches. vi. Psalm xxxvi. xxxvii. lviii. lix. lx. To fish in troubled waters. Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life.* Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves. civ. Ecclesiastes vii. It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare." Blushing is the colour of virtue." Isaiah xxx. Jeremiah iii. It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church." None so blind as those that will not see." vii. xx. Matthew ii. 1 Nature says best; and she says, Roar!- EDGEWORTH; Ormond, chap. v. (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.) 2 I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law. FISHER AMES: On Biennial Elections, 1788. 3 See Heywood, page 19. 4 Bread is the staff of life. - SWIFT: Tale of a Tub. Corne, which is the staffe of life. England, p. 47. (London, 1624.) WINSLOW: Good Newes from New The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread. - Isaiah iii. 1. 5 Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue." — DIOGENES LAERTIUS: Diogenes, vi. See Heywood, page 12. 7 There is none so blind as they that won't see. versation, dialogue iii. 8 Literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16. - SWIFT: Polite Con Not dead, but gone before. - ROGERS: Human Life. Those that are above business. Commentaries. Matthew xx. Better late than never.1 Saying and doing are two things. Judas had given them the slip. After a storm comes a calm. Men of polite learning and a liberal education. It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; not too good to be true. xxi. Ibid. xxii. Acts ix. 2. and yet Timothy i. It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.2 iii. RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662-1742. It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself. Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90. "Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.3 Declaration of Rights. Review of Sir Robert Peel's Ad dress. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835). In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms, - a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell. Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54. HENRY CAREY. 1663–1743. God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king! Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos? God save the King. Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1. His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation. Ibid. Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; Ibid. Sc. 3. But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!" Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free. Act ii. Sc. 4. The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2. What a monstrous tail our cat has got! The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1. Of all the girls that are so smart, Of all the days that's in the week And that's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday. 1 Of all the girls that e'er was seen, There's none so fine as Nelly. Sally in our Alley. Ibid. SWIFT: Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet. DANIEL DEFOE. 1663–1731. Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1. Great families of yesterday we show, Ibid. TOM BROWN. 1663-1704. I do not love thee, Doctor Fell, To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. Laconics. In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to 1 See Burton, page 192. 2 A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death: Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare; Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te (I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee).- MARTIAL: Epigram i. 33. Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas; Je n'en saurois dire la cause, Je sais seulement une chose; 8 Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt. 1670). (1618-1693.) SORBIENNE (1610 GOLDSMITH: The Haunch of Venison. your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here." 1 Laconics. MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721. All jargon of the schools.2 Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim Is from afar to view the flight.3 I am that I am. An Ode. To the Hon. Charles Montague. From ignorance our comfort flows. Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song? Be to her virtues very kind; Be to her faults a little blind. That if weak women went astray, Ibid. A Better Answer. An English Padlock. And thought the nation ne'er would thrive Hans Carvel. Ibid. Paulo Purganti. Upon a passage in the Scaligerana. That air and harmony of shape express, Henry and Emma. 1 Who never mentions hell to ears polite. - POPE: Moral Essays, epistle iv. line 149. 2 Noisy jargon of the schools. - POMFRET: Reason. The sounding jargon of the schools. - COWPER: Truth, line 367. 8 But all the pleasure of the game Is afar off to view the flight. 4 See Davenant, page 217. Variations in a copy dated 1692. 5 See Jonson, page 180. Also Dryden, page 268. 6 Fine by defect, and delicately weak. - POPE: Moral Essays, epistle ii. line 43. |