Brightens the joyless aspect, and supplies
Pure heavenly lustre to the languid eyes:

But when youth's living bloom reflects thy beams,
Resistless on the view the glory streams,
Love, wonder, joy, alternately alarm,
And beauty dazzles with angelic charm.

VIRTUE.

The path of

Virtue.-JAMES BEATTIE.

The path of virtue, indeed, is devious, dark, and dreary; but though it leads the traveller over hills of difficulties, it at length brings him into the delightful and extensive plains of permanent happiness and secure Solitude, Cap. II.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN.

repose.

VIRTUE. Test of true

Swerving Virtue

Endureth not rebuke-while that, that's steadfast,
With smiling patience suns the doubt away,

Wherewith mistrust would cloud it!

VIRTUE.

The Wife, Act III. Scene IV.-J. S. KNOWLES.

Endurance of

Only a sweet and virtuous soul,

Like season'd timber never gives;

But, though the whole world turn to coal,

Then chiefly lives.

Virtue.-GEORGE HERBERT.

VIRTUE. Immortality of

Virtue sole survives,

Immortal, never-failing friend of man,

His guide to happiness on high.

VISITORS.

The Seasons-Winter.-JAMES THOMSON.

Unwelcome

Of all the vexations of life, there are none so insupportable as those insipid visits, those annoying partialities, which occupy the time of frivolous and fashionable characters.

Solitude, Cap. IV.-J. G. ZIMMERMAN.

Wants Bew.

Man's

Men little crave

In this short journey to the silent grave;

And the poor peasant, bless'd with peace and health, I envy more than Croesus with his wealth.

WAR an Infirmity.

Childhood, Part II.-H. K. WHITE.

We read, Luke xiii. 11, of a woman who had a spirit of infirmity eighteen years, and was bowed together, and could in nowise lift up herself. This woman may pass for the lively emblem of the English nation, from the year of our Lord 1642 (when our first wars began) unto this present 1660, are eighteen years in my arithmetic ; all which time our land hath been bowed together, past possibility of standing upright.

Mixt Contemplations on these Times, 11.

THOMAS FULLER.

WATCHFULNESS.

Give me to set a sturdy porter before

my soul, who may not equally open to every comer. I cannot concieve how he can be a friend to any who is a friend to all, and the worst foe to himself.

Mixt Contemplations, XIII.-THOMAS Fuller.

Alas! how often erring mortals keep

The strongest watch against the foes who sleep;
While the more wakeful, bold, and artful foe
Is suffer'd guardless and unmasked to go.

The Borough, Letter XIX.-G. CRABBE.

WEALTH in the early ages.

In the age of acorns, antecedent to Ceres and the royal ploughman Triptolemus, a single barley-corn had been of more value to mankind than all the diamonds that glowed in the mines of India.

The Fool of Quality, Chap. II.-H. Brooke.

WEALTH in a Country.

An equal diffusion of riches through any country ever constitutes its happiness. Great wealth in the possession of one stagnates, and extreme poverty with another keeps him in unambitious indigence; but the moderately rich are generally active: not too far removed from poverty to fear its calamities, nor too near extreme wealth to slacken the nerve of labour, they remain still between both, in a state of continual fluctua

tion.

How impolitic, therefore, are the laws which promote the accumulation of wealth among the rich; more impolitic still, in attempting to increase the deCitizen of the World, Letter LXXII. OLIVER GOLDSMITH.

pression on poverty.

WIFE. A Faithful

Heaven witness,

I have been to you a true and humble wife,
At all times to your will conformable :
Ever in fear to kindle your dislike,

Yea, subject to your countenance; glad, or sorry,
As I saw it inclin'd. When was the hour,

I ever contradicted your desire,

Or made it not mine too?

WILL.

King Henry VIII. Act II. Scene IV.-SHAKSPere.

Value of Man's

The question is not, whether a man be a free agent, that is to say, whether he can write or forbear, speak or be silent, according to his will; but whether the will to write, and the will to forbear, come upon him according to his will, or according to anything else in his own power. I acknowledge this liberty, that I can do if I will; but to say I can will if I will, I take to be an absurd speech. The Necessity of the Will. THOMAS HOBBES.

WIND likened to Destiny.

The rude winds bear me onward

As suiteth them, not me,

WINE.

O'er dale, o'er hill,
Through good, through ill,
As destiny bears thee.

The Autumn Leaf.-W. M. MILNES.

Wine is like anger; for it makes us strong,
Blind, and impatient, and it leads us wrong.
Edward Shore, Tale XI.-G. CRABBE.

WISDOM.

Wisdom for a man's self is, in many branches thereof, a depraved thing; it is the wisdom of rats, that will be sure to leave a house somewhat before it fall: it is the wisdom of the fox, that thrusts out the badger who digged and made room for him: it is the wisdom of crocodiles, that shed tears when they would devour. Essay on Wisdom for a Man's Self.- LORD BACON.

Man's chief wisdom consists in knowing his follies.

Maxims, CCCCLXXXIV.-ROCHEFOUCAULT.

WISDOM. Characteristic of

Wisdom never fastens constantly,

But upon merit.

The Nice Valour, Act. 1.

WISDOM'S Highest Teaching.

JOHN FLETCHER.

Yet let that wisdom, urged by her example,
Teach us to estimate what all must suffer,