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6. 'Tis strange there should such difference be "Twixt tweedle-dum and tweedle-dee.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

7. When civil dudgeon first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why;
When hard words, jealousies, and fears,
Set men together by the ears.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

8. Two things so averse, they never yet But in thy rambling fancy met.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.

9. For many a lad returns from school
A Latin, Greek, and Hebrew fool;
In arts and knowledge still a block,
Tho' deeply skill'd in hic, hæc, hoc.

10. Nothing exceeds in ridicule, no doubt,
A fool in fashion, but a fool that's out;
His passion for absurdity's so strong,
He cannot bear a rival in the wrong.

PATTISON.

Though wrong the mode, comply: more sense is shown
In wearing others' follies than our own.

11. "Tis not in folly not to scorn a fool,

YOUNG.

And scarce in human wisdom to do more.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

12. Men may live fools, but fools they cannot die!

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

13. Some positive, persisting fops we know,
Who, if once wrong, will needs be always so;
But you with pleasure own your errors past,
And make each day a critique on the last.

POPE.

14. For fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

POPE.

15. Who perhaps to the summit of science might soar, Content if "the table he set in a roar."

16.

GOLDSMITH's Retaliation.

Whose genius was such,

We scarcely could praise him, or blame him, too much;
Who, born for the universe, narrow'd his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation.

17. Like an ill-judging beauty, his colours he spread, And bespatter'd with rouge his own natural red.

GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation.

18. He cast off his friends as a huntsman his pack, For he knew, when he wish'd, he could whistle them back. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation.

19. And idle jests, untimely spoken,
The tend'rest ties have often broken.

20. Explaining metaphysics to the nation-
I wish he would explain his explanation.

FOOLS. (See FOLLY.)

BYRON.

FORGETFULNESS-OBLIVION.

1. I've touch'd the highest point of all my greatness ; And from the full meridian of my glory

2.

I haste now to my setting. I shall fall
Like a bright exhalation in the evening,
And no man see me more!

The swallowing gulf
Of dark oblivion and deep despair.

SHAKSPEARE.

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3.

FORGET ME NOT.

"T is far off;

And rather like a dream, than an assurance
That my remembrance warrants.

4. Thus peaceful rests, without a stone, a name, What once had beauty, titles, wealth and fame.

5. Unwept, unhonour'd, and unsung.

SHAKSPEARE.

POPE.

SCOTT.

CARLOS WILCOX.

6. 'Tis infamy to die, and not be miss'd.

7. Let not a death, unwept, unhonour'd, be
The melancholy fate allotted me!
But those who love me living, when I die,
Still fondly keep some cherish'd memory.

From SOLON.

1.

FORGET ME NOT.

Forget me not, when others gaze
Enamour'd on thee with the looks of praise;
When weary leagues between us both are cast,
And each dull hour seems heavier than the last-

Oh! then forget me not!

2. Think of him whose prayers shall bless thee; Think of him thy love had bless'd.

3. Oh! think of her who holds thee dear, And think that thou art all to her!

BYRON.

BYRON.

4.

May joy thy steps attend,

And mayst thou find in every form a friend;
With care unsullied be thy every thought,

And in thy dreams of home, forget me not!

5. Though we should meet no more, sweet maid, Forget me not.

6. Remember thee, and all thy pains,

And all thy love for me!

Yes! while a pulse, a breath remains,

Will I remember thee!

7. Each dew-drop, on its morning leaves,
Is eloquent as tears,

That whisper, when young passion grieves
For one belov'd afar, and weaves

His dream of hopes and fears,

Forget me not!

MONTGOMERY.

FITZ-GREEN HALLECK.

FORGIVENESS-MERCY-PITY, &c.

1. And but to speaken of her conscience,
She was so charitable and so piteous,
She would weep an that she but saw a mouse
Caught in a trap, if it were dead or bled.

2. The quality of mercy is not strain'd;

It droppeth as the gentle dew from heaven
Upon the place beneath. It is twice bless'd:
It blesses him that gives, and him that takes.

3. "Tis mightiest in the mighty; it becomes The throned monarch better than his crown.

CHAUCER.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

4. Though justice be thy plea, consider this-
That in the course of justice, none of us
Should see salvation: we do pray for mercy;
And that same prayer doth teach us all to render
The deeds of mercy.

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5. Great souls forgive not injuries till time
Has put their enemies into their power,
That they may show forgiveness in their own.

6. Nature has cast me in so soft a mould,

7.

That, but to hear a story, feign'd for pleasure,
Of some sad lover's death, moistens my eyes
And robs me of my manhood.

Thy narrow soul

Knows not the God-like glory of forgiving;
Nor can thy cold, thy ruthless heart conceive
How large the power, how fix'd the empire is,
Which benefits confer on generous minds.

8. The greatest attribute of heaven is mercy,
And 't is the crown of justice, and the glory,
Where it may kill with right, to save with pity.

DRYDEN.

DRYDEN.

ROWE.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.

9.

He, that is merciful

Unto the bad, is cruel to the good.

RANDOLPH.

10. Those moving tears will quite dissolve my frame; They melt the soul which threats could never shake.

11. A generous warmth opens the hero's soul,
And soft compassion flows where courage dwells.

12.

The generous heart

HIGGONS.

C. JOHNSON.

Should scorn a pleasure which gives others pain.

13. Great conquerors greater glory gain
By foes in triumph led than slain;
The laurels that adorn their brows,
Are pull'd from living, not dead, boughs.

THOMSON.

BUTLER'S Hudibras.