That grows to seed; things rank, and gross in nature, Possess it merely. Shakspeare.

ССССХХІ.

Who frowns at others' feasts, had better bide away.— Sir P. Sidney.

CCCCXXII.

Many an honest man before as harmless as a tame rabbit, when loaded with a single election dinner, has become more dangerous than a charged culverin.Goldsmith.

CCCCXXIII.

Friendship is power and riches all to me;
Friendship's another element of life:
Water and fire not of more general use,
To the support and comfort of the world,
Than friendship to the being of my joy;
I would do every thing to serve a friend.
Southern.

CCCCXXIV.

Corrupt influence is itself the perennial spring of all prodigality, and of all disorder; which loads us, more than millions of debt; which takes away vigour from our arms, wisdom from our councils, and every shadow of authority and credit from the most venerable parts of our constitution.-Burke.

CCCCXXV.

Man's life's a tragedy; his mother's womb,
From which he enters, is the tiring room;
This spacious earth the theatre, and the stage
That country which he lives in: Passions, Rage,
Folly, and Vice are actors: the first cry
The prologue to the ensuing tragedy.
The former act consisteth in dumb shows;
The second he to more perfection grows;
I'th third he is a man, and doth begin
To nurture vice, and act the deeds of sin:
I'th th' fourth declines: i'th' fifth diseases clog
And trouble him; then Death's his Epilogue.

Sir W. Raleigh.

CCCCXXVI.

There is a wide difference between admiration and love. The sublime which is the cause of the former, always dwells on great objects, and terrible; the latter on small ones, and pleasing; we submit to what we admire, but we love what submits to us: in one case we are forced, in the other we are flattered, into compliance.-Burke.

CCCCXXVII.

O think, what anxious moments pass between
The birth of plots, and their last fatal periods
Oh 'tis a dreadful interval of time;

Fill'd up with horror all, and big with death.

CCCCXXVIII.

Addison

What real good does an addition to a fortune already sufficient, procure? Not any. Could the great man, by having his fortune increased, increase also his appetites, then precedence might be attended with real amusement.-Goldsmith.

CCCCXXIX.

Get not your friends by bare compliments, but by giving them sensible tokens of your love; it is well worth while to learn how to win the heart of a man the right way. Force is of no use to make or preserve a friend, who is an animal that is never caught nor tamed but by kindness and pleasure. Excite them by your civilities, and show them that you desire nothing more than their satisfaction; oblige with all your soul, that friend who has made you a present of his own.-Socrates.

CCCCXXX.

Shame sticks ever close to the ribs of honour,
Great men are never found after it:

It leaves some ach or other in their names still,
Which their posterity feels at ev'ry weather.

CCCCXXXI.

Middleton.

Men in a party have liberty only for their motto; in

reality they are greater slaves than any body else would care to make them.-Saville.

CCCCXXXII.

Of all sciences, I speak of human, and according to the human conceit, is our poet the monarch. For he doth not only show the way, but giveth so sweet a prospect into the way, as will entice any man to enter into it: nay, he doth, as if your journey should be through a fair vineyard, at the very first, give you a cluster of grapes, that, full of that taste, you may long to pass further. He beginneth not with obscure definitions, which must blur the margins with interpretations; and load the memory with doubtfulness; but he cometh to you with words set in delightful proportion, either accompanied with, or prepared for, the well-enchanting skill of music, and with a tale, forsooth, he cometh unto you with a tale, which holdeth children from play, and old men from the chimney corner; and, pretending no more, doth intend the winning of the mind from. wickedness to virtue; even as the child is most often brought to take most wholesome things by hiding them in such other as have a pleasant taste.-Sir P. Sidney's Defence of Poesy.

CCCCXXXIII.

Frenzy does not become a slighter distemper on account of the number of those who may be infected with. it-Burke.

CCCCXXXIV.

I do not understand those for poor, which are vagabonds and beggars, but those that labour to live, such as are old and cannot travel, such poor widows and fatherless children as are ordered to be relieved, and the poor tenants that travail to pay their rents and are driven to poverty by mischance, and not by riot or careless expenses; on such have thou compassion, and God will bless thee for it-Sir W. Raleigh-to his Son

CCCCXXXV.

There's such divinity doth hedge a king,

That treason can but peep to what it would.
Acts little of his will.

CCCCXXXVI.

Shakspeare.

As long as the world lasts, and honour and virtue and industry have reputation in the world, there will be ambition and emulation and appetite in the best and most accomplished men who live in it; if there should not be, more barbarity and vice and wickedness would cover every nation of the world, than it yet suffers under. Clarendon.

CCCCXXXVII.

In forming a judgment, lay your hearts void of foretaken opinions; else whatsoever is done or said, will be measured by a wrong rule: like them who have the jaundice, to whom every thing appeareth yellow.-Sir P. Sidney.

Thoughts! what are they?

They are my constant friends;

Who when harsh fate its dull brow bends,
Uncloud me with a smiling ray,

And in the depth of midnight force a day.

CCCCXXXVIII.

Flatman.

A man who has taken his ideas of mankind from study alone, generally comes into the world with a heart melting at every fictitious distress. Thus he is induced by misplaced liberality, to put himself into the indigent circumstances of the person he relieves.-Goldsmith.

CCCCXXXIX.

He travels safe and not unpleasantly, who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.-Sir P. Sidney.

CCCCXL.

After Ariosto, Tasso, and Spenser, I know none of the moderns that have made any achievements in heroic

poetry worth recording. The wits of the age soon left off such bold adventures, and turned to other veins; as if, not worthy to sit down at the feast, they contented themselves with the scraps; with songs and sonnets, with odes and elegies, with satires and panegyrics, and what we call copies of verses upon any subjects or occásions-wanting either genius or application for nobler or more labourious productions; as painters, that cannot succeed in great pieces, turn to miniature.

But the modern poets, to value this small coin, and make it pass, though of so much a baser metal than the old, gave it a new mixture from two veins which were little known, or little esteemed among the ancients There were, indeed, certain fairies in the old regions of poetry, called epigrams, which seldom, reached above the stature of two, or four, or six lines, and which, being so short, were all turned upon conceit, or some sharp hits of fancy or wit.-Sir W. Temple.

CCCCXLI.

The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquests;
The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorsely ss,
The last corruption of degenerate man. † P.

CCCCXLII.

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Sir Philip Sidney had an equal tempera and Mercury, valour and learning, to as stemper on 'as nature and art could frame, and fortune, ifa Ovo1 Him; so dexterous, that he seemed horn for every thing he went about. His representations of virtue and vice, were not more lively in his books than in his life; his fancy was not above his virtue; his humours, councils, and actions, were renowned in the romancer, and heroic in the statesman; his soul was as large as his parents, the modesty of the mother allaying the activity of the father: a man so sweetly grave; so familiarly stayed, so prettily serious, he was above his years; wisdom gained by travel, experience gained from observations, solid and useful learning drawn from knowing Languet, his three years' companions, and choicest books, accomplished him