All dark, and comfortless! Grief. Where are thofe various objects that but now, O mifery! What words can found my grief ?. Courage. A generous few, the vet'ran nardy gleanings Of many a hapless fight, with a fierce. Heroic fire infpired each other; Refolv'd on death, difdaining to survive Whole hecatombs of Danes."-As if one foul Frag, of Lear. Had mov'd them all, around there heads they flash'd Fear, How ill this taper burns! Ha! who comes here? I think it is the weakness of mine eyes, That fhapes this monftrous apparition? It comes upon me--Art thou any thing? Art thou fome god, fome angel, or fome devil? Love. Who can behold fuch beauty, and be filent? Oh! I could talk of thee forever; Forever fix and gaze on thofe dear eyes; Hear me, rafh man; on thy allegiance hear me. And kingdom. If when three days are expired, Contempt. Away!-no woman could defcend fo low. A fkipping, dancing, worthless tribe you are, Fit only for yourselves, you herd together; Diphan Trag. of Lear And when the circling glass warms your vain hearts; Pity. As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well grac'd actor leaves the Rtage, Fair Penitent Even fo, or with much more contempt, men's eyes That had not God for fome ftrong parpofe, feel'd Hatred. How like a fawning publican he looks? I hate him for he is a Christian : But more for that is low fimplicity, He lends out money gratis, and brings down Richard IT On me, my bargains, and my well won thrift, Pride. Merch. of Venice. Ak for what end the heavenly bodies fhine, Humility, I know not how to thank you, Rude I am, In fpeech and manners; never till this hour Stood Lin fuch a prefence : yet, my Lord, Effay on Maur There's fomething in my breaft which makes be bold There is a ftupid weight upon my fenfes, A difmal fullen ftillness, that fucceeds The form of rage and grief, like filent death Love was the informing active fire within Now that is quenehid, the mafs forgets to move, Douglas And longe, to mingle with its kindred earth. Fair Penitent. Commanding. -Silence, ye winds That make outrageous war upon the occan ; And thon profoundest hell whose dreadful sway Is given to me by fate and demorgorgon 多 Hear, hear my powerful voice through all thy regions : And, from thy gloomy caverna-thunder thy reply. Hope. Rinaldo and Armida. O hope! fweet flatterer, whose delufive touch Sheds on affected minds the balm of comfort, Relieves the load of poverty, fuftains My arm a nobler victory ne'er gain'd: Perplexity, Go fellow, get thee home provide fome cats, Revenge. Boadecen Lee's Alexander Richard 11. Jew If it will feed nothing elfe, it will feed my revenge. He hath difgraced me, and hindered me of half a million, laughed at my loffes, mocked at my gains, fcorned my nation, thwarted my bargains, cooled my friends, heated mine enemies. And what's his reafon? I am a Jew. Hath not a jew eyes? hath not a hands, organs, dimenfions, fenfes, affection, paffions? Is he not fed with the fame food, hurt with the fame weapons, sub. ject to the fame difeafes, healed by the fame means, warmed and cooled by the fame winter and fummer as a Chriftian.is? If your prick us, do we not bleed? If you tickle us do we not laugh? If you poison us, do we not die? and if you wrong us, fhall we not revenge? If we are like you in the reft, we will refemble you in that. If a Jew wrong a Christian, what is his humility revenge. If a Chriftian wrong a Jew, what fhould his fufference be by Chriftian example? why revenge. The villany you teach me, I will execute; and it fhall go hard but I will better by the inftruction. Remorse. Merch. of Venice. I remember a mafs of things, but nothing diftin&ly ; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O that men fhould put an enemy in their mouths, to ftcalaway there brains? that we fhould with joy, pleafance, revel, and applaufe, transform ourselves into beafts I will ask him for my place again-he fhall tell me I am a drunkard! Had I as many mouths as Hydra, such an anfwer would ftop them all. To be now a fenfible man, by and by a fool, and presently a beaft! Every inordinate cnp is unbleit and the ingredient is a devil. Trag. of Othello In the following Leffons, there are many examples of antithefis, ar oppofition in the Jenfe. For the benefit of the learner, fome of thefe examples are diftinguished by Italic letters; and the words fo marked are emphatical. SELECT SENTENCES ΤΟ TEACHING. "O be very active in laudable purfuits, is the diftinguishing There is an heroic innocence, as well as an heroic courage. There is a mean in all things. Even virtue itself has its flated limits; which not being strictly observed, it ceases to be virtue. It is wifer to prevent a quarrel beforehand, than to revenge it afterwards. No It is much better to reprove, than to be angry fecretly. is more heroic, than that which torments envy, by doing good. revenge The difcretion of a man deferreth his anger, and it is his glory to pass over a tranfgreffion. Money, like manure, does no good till it is fpread. There is no real use of riches, except in the diftribution; the reft is all conceit. A wife man will defire no more than what he can get justly, ufe foberly, diftribute cheerfully, and live upon contentedly. A contented mind, and a good confcience, will make a man happy in all conditions. He knows not how to fear who dares to die. There is but one way of fortifying the foul against all gloo. my prefages and terrors of the mind; and that is by fecuring to themfelves the friendship and protection of that Being who difpofes of events and governs futurity. B |