200 DISEASE-HEALTH-PHYSICIAN. 13. That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower. 14. Fever and pain, and pale, consumptive care. GOLDSMITH. GOLDSMITH. 15. The power of words, and soothing sounds, appease The raging pain, and lessen the disease. 16. And then the sigh, he would suppress, Of fainting nature's feebleness, 17. More slowly drawn, grew less and less. FRANCIS' Horace. BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. A cheek, whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb, BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. BYRON. 18. Sickness sits cavern'd in his hollow eye. 19. Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, BYRON'S Childe Harold. 20. This is the way physicians mend or end us, BYRON'S Don Juan. 21. Hers was a beauty that made sad the eye, Bright, but fast fading, like a twilight sky: The shape so finely, delicately frail, As form'd for climes unruffled by a gale; The lustrous eye, through which look'd forth the soul, The New Timon. 22. Along her cheek the deep'ning red Told where the fev'rish hectic fed; And yet each token gave To the mild beauty of her face, J. G. WHITTIER. DISHONESTY - ROGUES - THIEVES. 1. Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, Is to be one pick'd out of ten thousand. 2. Thieves for their robbery have authority, When judges steal themselves. 3. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. I'll example you with thievery : SHAKSPEARE. 4. Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that; SHAKSPEARE. 5. Lands, mortgag'd, may return, and more esteem'd ; But honesty once pawn'd is ne'er redeem'd. 6. The man who pauses in his honesty Wants little of the villain. MIDDLETON. MARTYN. 7. Rogues as they were, themselves they would not robVice in the heart some virtue always leaves And, though they'd thank the public for a job, They, 'mongst themselves, were honourable thieves! DISPLEASURE. 1. If she do frown, 't is not in hate of youBut rather to beget more love in you. If she do chide, 't is not to have you gone. SHAKSPEARE. 2. O! why rebuke you him, who loves you so? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Go, speak not to me; even now begone! SHAKSPEARE. 4. No cloud 5. Of anger shall remain, but peace assur'd, Do not blast my springing hopes, 6. "T is then the mind, from bondage free, And all its former weakness o'er, Asserts its native dignity, And scorns what folly priz'd before. 7. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. MILTON. ROWE. CARTWRIGHT. COLERIDGE'S Christabel. 8. O, where are the bright-beaming glances I miss! DISPOSITION - DISSENSION- DISTANCE. 9. Farewell! the tie is broken-thou, With all thou wert to me, hast parted! 10. Cast my heart's gold into the furnace flame, 203 N. P. WILLIS. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. DISPOSITION.-(See CHARACTER.) DISSENSION. 1. Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension, between hearts that love! MOORE. 2. A something light as air-a look- Oh! love, that tempest never shook, A breath, a touch like this, hath shaken. Though light cause may move 3. Dissensions between hearts that love, Is it not true, a cause as light May sever'd hearts again unite, MOORE. DISTANCE. 1. "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And clothes the mountain in its azure hue. CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. 204 DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. 2. If earth's whole orb, by some due distanc'd eye, Were seen at once, her tow'ring Alps would sink, And levell'd Atlas leave an even sphere. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 1. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. Home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, THOMSON'S Seasons. 2. Domestic happiness! thou only bliss COWPER'S Task. 3. His warm but simple home, where he enjoys, With her who shares his pleasure and his heart, Sweet converse. 4. Man, through all ages of revolving time, COWPER'S Task: Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 5. Around, in sympathetic mirth, Its tricks the kitten tries, J. MONTGOMERY. GOLDSMITH. |