454 POETRY-POLITENESS - POLITICS. Whose song gush'd from his heart As showers from the clouds of summer, Or tears from the eyelids start. A politician, Proteus-like, must alter Of the same colour that the vessel is That doth contain it, varying his form, With the chameleon, at each object's change. Dull rogues affect the politician's part, Your politicians Have evermore a taint of vanity; As hasty still to show and boast a plot, MASON. CONGREVE. SIR W. DAVENANT. All would be deem'd, e'en from the cradle, fit CHURCHILI POPULARITY - PORTRAIT, &c. Who's in or out, who moves the grand machine, Secrets of state no more I wish to know, 455 CHURCHILL. How far the little candle throws his beams! Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE Each must, in virtue, strive for to excel; The man lives twice, who lives the first life well. HERRICK. 450 PRAYER-RELIGION - VIRTUE Shall ignorance of good and ill To Providence resign the rest. His pure thoughts were borne GAY's Fables. Like fumes of sacred incense o'er the clouds, For blessings ever wait on virtuous deeds, CONGREVE. CONGREVE'S Mourning Bride Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt; MILTON'S Comus. Then to be good is to be happy; angels He patient show'd us the wise course to steer, ROWE. TICKELL, on the Death of Addison. Of the good man is peace! - how calm his exit! BLAIR'S Grave. What nothing earthly gives or can destroy, POPE'S Essay on Man. PRAYER-RELIGION - VIRTUE. Know then this truth, (enough for man to know,, 457 POPE'S Essay on Man. She points the arduous height where glory lies, Beside the bed where parting life was laid, POPE. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. Virtue on herself relying, Loses every pain of dying In the hope of being blest. Virtue in itself commands its happiness, GOLDSMITH. Virtue Stands like the sun, and all which rolls around And let not this seem strange; the devotee Around him days and worlds are heedless driven, While he lives, FRANCIS BYRON, BYRON'S Island. To know no bliss but that which virtue gives; MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 458 PREFERMENT-PRESS-PRESUMPTION. Count life by virtues - these will last MRS. S. J. HALF PREFERMENT. For places in the court are but like beds 'Tis the curse of service; Preferment goes by letter and affection, Not by the old gradation, when each second WEBSTER. SHAKSPEARE. If on the sudden he begins to rise, No man that lives can count his enemies. MIDDLETON. All preferment, 'T'hat springs from sin and lust, shoots quickly up, PRESS. (See Books.) PRESUMPTION. I was indeed delirious in my heart, MIDDLETON. BYRON |