Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, Sh. A. Y. 11. 1. Sh. H. VIII. 11. 1. Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, Sh. H. VIII. III. 2. I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; I haste now to my setting. I shall fall By adversity are wrought Sh. H. VIII. III. 2. The greatest works of admiration, And all the fair examples of renown, Out of distress and misery are grown. Daniel, E. of South. Love is maintained by wealth; when all is spent, Adversity then breeds the discontent. Herrick, Aph. 144. Adversity, sage useful guest, Severe instructor, but the best, Justly to value things below. I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down, can fall no lower. Who has not known ill fortune, never knew Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue; Somerville. Butler, Hud. Mallet, Alfred. Mal. Alfr. ADVERSITY-ADVICE. ADVERSITY-continued. The gods in bounty work up storms about us, Addison, Cato. Their hidden strength, and throw out into practice Even o'er an enemy oppressed, and heap In this wild world the fondest and the best, Are the most tried, most troubled, and distress'd. I have not quailed to danger's brow When high and happy-need I now? Frowde, Sa. Smollett, Reg. Crabbe. Byron, Giacur Of all the horrid, hideous notes of woe, Byron, Don J. And fellow countrymen have stood aloof In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof! Byron, Ch. H. The good are better made by ill, Rogers, Jacqueline As odours crush'd are better still. ADVICE. Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, Give thy thoughts no tongue, Sh. Hen. VIII. 111. 2. Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Sh. Ham. 1. 3. 8 ADVICE-continued. ADVICE. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep Sh. Ham. 1. 3, Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity Ib. 1. 3. Sh. All's W. 1. 1. But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, Sh. Com. E. 11. 1. I pray thee, cease thy counsel Sh. Much A. v. 1. Learn to be wise, and practise how to thrive : Ben Jonson. Danger, to give the best advice to kings. Herrick, Aph. 245. Know when to speak-for many times it brings Take sound advice, proceeding from the heart When things go ill, each fool presumes to advise, And that advice seems best which comes too late. Search, and know all mankind's mysterious ways; Dryden. Sedley, Rowe, Ulysses. ADVICE-continued. ADVICE-AFFECTION. No part of conduct asks for skill more nice, The assuming wit, who deems himself so wise, Let him not dare to vent his dang'rous thought- The worst men give oft the best advice. AFFABILITY. Gentle to me, and affable hath been Thy condescension, and shall be honoured ever AFFECTATION. Maids, in modesty, say No to that Stillingfleet. Pope. Bailey, Festus. Milton P. L. VIII. 248. Which they would have the profferer construe, Ay. Fie, fie; how wayward is this foolish love, That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse, And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod ! Sh. Two G. 1. 2. Why Affectation-why this mock grimace? Go, silly thing, and hide that simpering face! Cumberland. Pope, R. L.IV.31. Cowper, Task, 11. 415. Why, she would hang on him, Affection is a coal that must be cool'd, Sh. Ham. 1. 2. Sh. Poems. Sh. Oth. 111. 3. 10 AFFECTION-AFFLICTION. AFFECTION-continued. Of all the tyrants that the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords. E. Stirling, Jul. C. What we love too much, The Heavens correcting this our zeal, more strong Than our devotion toward them, take from us. Parnell, H. Gay, Fable III. 33. Where yet was ever found a mother, Some feelings are to mortals given, With less of earth in them than heaven; From passion's dross refined and clear. Young. Francis. Scott Lady of the L. 11.22. L.E. Landon. Byron, B. Ab. 1. 2. There is in life no blessing like affection; Byron. Sh. Hum. III. 2. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. When Providence, for secret ends, Browne. |