To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets;
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.1
I am as sober as a judge.2

Sc. 6.

1 Thus when a barber and a collier fight,
The barber beats the luckless collier - white;
The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,
And big with vengeance beats the barber-black.
In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread,
And beats the collier and the barber- red:

Black, red, and white in various clouds are tost,

And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost.

CHRISTOPHER SMART: The Trip to Cambridge (on

Campbell's Specimens of the British Poets," vol. vi. p. 185).

2 Sober as a judge. - CHARLES LAMB: Letter to Mr. and Mrs. Moxon.

8 See Addison, page 300.

4 See Heywood, page 20.

5 Socrates said, Bad men live that they may eat and drink, whereas good men eat and drink that they may live.

ought to hear Poems.

- PLUTARCH: How a Young Man

6 A penny saved is twopence dear;

A pin a day's a groat a year.

FRANKLIN: Hints to those that would be Rich (1736).

Can any man have a higher notion of the rule of right and the eternal fitness of things?

WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM.
1708-1778.

Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.
Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.

A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the throne greater than the King himself.4

Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770.

Where law ends, tyranny begins.

Case of Wilkes. Speech, Jan. 9, 1770.

Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.5

Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country I never would lay down my arms, - never! never! never!

Speech, Nov. 18, 1777.

1 Amiable weaknesses of human nature. - GIBBON: Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, chap. xiv.

2 See Bolingbroke, page 304.

8 Illustrious predecessor.- BURKE: The Present Discontents.

I shall tread in the footsteps of my illustrious predecessor. - MARTIN

VAN BUREN: Inaugural Address, March 4, 1837.

4 Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the throne itself."- History of England, vol. v. p. 258.

5 "Indemnity for the past and security for the future.". RUSSELL: Memoir of Fox, vol. iii. p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland.

The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter; all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement! Speech on the Excise Bill.

We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy. Prior's Life of Burke (1790).

SAMUEL JOHNSON. 1709-1784.

Let observation with extensive view

Survey mankind, from China to Peru.1

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Line 159.

He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Line 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.

Line 257.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.
Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Line 293.

Line 308.

Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!

From Marlb'rough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires, a driv'ler and a show.

Line 316.

1 All human race, from China to Peru,

Pleasure, howe'er disguised by art, pursue.

THOMAS WARTON: Universal Love of Pleasure.

De Quincey (Works, vol. x. p. 72) quotes the criticism of some writer, who contends with some reason that this high-sounding couplet of Dr. Johnson amounts in effect to this: Let observation with extensive observation observe mankind extensively.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 345.

Line 362.

London. Line 166.

For patience, sov'reign o'er transmuted ill.
Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.1
This mournful truth is ev'rywhere confess'd, -
Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.2
Studious to please, yet not ashamed to fail.

Line 176.

Prologue to the Tragedy of Irene.

Each change of many-colour'd life he drew,
Exhausted worlds, and then imagin'd new.

Prologue on the Opening of Drury Lane Theatre.

And panting Time toil'd after him in vain.
For we that live to please must please to live.
Catch, then, oh catch the transient hour;
Improve each moment as it flies!
Life's a short summer, man a flower;
He dies alas! how soon he dies!

Officious, innocent, sincere,

Of every friendless name the friend.

Ibid.

Ibid.

Winter. An Ode.

Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza 2.

In misery's darkest cavern known,
His useful care was ever nigh3

Where hopeless anguish pour'd his groan,

And lonely want retir'd to die.

Stanza 5.

And sure th' Eternal Master found
His single talent well employ'd.

1 Nothing in poverty so ill is borne

As its exposing men to grinning scorn.

Stanza 7.

OLDHAM (1653-1683): Third Satire of Juvenal.

2 Three years later Johnson wrote, "Mere unassisted merit advances slowly, if what is not very common-it advances at all."

8 Var. His ready help was always nigh.

Then with no throbs of fiery pain,1
No cold gradations of decay,
Death broke at once the vital chain,
And freed his soul the nearest way.

Verses on the Death of Mr. Robert Levet. Stanza 9.

That saw the manners in the face.

Lines on the Death of Hogarth. Philips, whose touch harmonious could remove The pangs of guilty power and hapless love! Rest here, distress'd by poverty no more; Here find that calm thou gav'st so oft before; Sleep undisturb'd within this peaceful shrine, Till angels wake thee with a note like thine!

Epitaph on Claudius Philips, the Musician.

A Poet, Naturalist, and Historian,
Who left scarcely any style of writing untouched,
And touched nothing that he did not adorn.2

Epitaph on Goldsmith.

How small of all that human hearts endure,
That part which laws or kings can cause or cure!
Still to ourselves in every place consigned,
Our own felicity we make or find.

With secret course, which no loud storms annoy,
Glides the smooth current of domestic joy.

Lines added to Goldsmith's Traveller.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay.

Line added to Goldsmith's Deserted Village.

From thee, great God, we spring, to thee we tend, -
Path, motive, guide, original, and end.

Motto to the Rambler. No. 7.

Ye who listen with credulity to the whispers of fancy, and pursue with eagerness the phantoms of hope; who

1 Var. Then with no fiery throbbing pain.

2 Qui nullum fere scribendi genus

Non tetigit,

Nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.

See Chesterfield, page 353.

3 A translation of Boethius's "De Consolatione Philosophiæ," iii. 9, 27.