That does both act and know. e. MARVELL Upon Cromwell's return from Ireland. Awake, arise, or be for ever fall'n. f. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. I. Line 830. All may do what has by man been done. ADMIRATION. No nobler feeling than this, of admiration for one higher than himself dwells in the breast of inan. It is to this hour, and at all hours, the vivifying influence in man's life. CARLYLE-Heroes and Hero Worship. Lecture I. υ. Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! None knew thee but to love thee, 20. Few men are admired by their servants. What you do When you speak, Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 3. The sapless habit daily to bedew, h. JOHN ARMSTRONG-Art of Preserving Men of age object too much, consult too long, adventure too little, repent too soon, and seldom drive business home to the full period, but content themselves with a mediocrity of success. i. BACON ESSAY XLII. Of Youth and Age. Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime. j. BEATTIE--The Minstrel. Bk. I. St. 25. To resist with success, the frigidity of old No chronic tortures racked his aged limb, him. 1. BRYANT The Old Man's Funeral. Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray BYRON Childe Harold. Canto II. St. 88. Just as old age is creeping on apace, My days are in the yellow leaf; St. 59. 0. BYRON-On my Thirty-sixth Year. Dark and despairing, my sight I may seal, But man cannot cover what God would reveal: 'Tis the sunset of life gives me mystical lore, p. As I approve of a youth that has something of the old man in him, so I am no less pleased with an old man that has something of the youth. q. Life's shadows are meeting Eternity's day. JAMES G. CLARKE-Leona. 7'. CICERO. The spring, like youth, fresh blossoms doth But autumn makes them ripe and fit for use: S. Sir JOHN DENHAM-Cato Major. Pt. IV. Boys must not have th' ambitious care of men, 1. Horace. Of the Art of Poetry. Line 212. We do not count a man's years, until he has nothing else to count. น. EMERSON-Society and Solitude. Old Age. Henry VIII. Act IV. Sc. 2. O, heavens, If you do love old men, if your sweet sway Allow obedience, if you yourselves are old, Make it your cause. h. King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man, Fourscore and upward; and, to deal plainly, I fear I am not in my perfect mind. i. King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 7. Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. J. King Henry IV. Pt. II. Act I. Sc. 2. Superfluity comes sooner by white hairs, but competency lives longer. k. Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. The wrinkles which thy glass will truly show, Of mouthed graves will give thee memory, Thou by thy dial's shady stealth maiest know, Time's thievish progress to eternity. 1. Sonnet LXXII. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty; in. As You Like It. Act II. Sc. 3 WORDSWORTH-To a Young Lady. Mourns less for what age takes away x. WORDSWORTH-The Fountain. St. 9. Shall we shall aged men, like aged trees, Strike deeper their vile root, and closer cling, Still more enamour'd of their wretched soil? y. YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night IV. AGONY. Line 111. |