7. But she led him to the palace gate, And call'd the sylphs who hover'd there, 8. As ever ye saw a bubble rise, DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. And shine with a thousand changing dyes, 9. He put his acorn-helmet on; DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. It was plum'd of the silk of the thistle-down; Was once the wild bees' golden vest; His cloak, of a thousand mingled dyes, His shield was the shell of a lady-bug queen, Studs of gold on a ground of green; And the quivering lance which he brandish'd bright, 10. Swift he bestrode his fiery steed; DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. He bared his blade of the bent grass blue; And away, like a glance of thought, he flew, The fiery tail of the rocket-star. DRAKE'S Culprit Fay. 1. True faith and reason are the soul's two eyes; And sometimes both are clos'd, and neither see. 2. Faith lights us through the dark to deity; QUARLES. Whilst, without sight, we witness that she shows More God than in his works our eyes can see, Though none, but by those works, the Godhead knows. SIR W. DAVENANT. 3. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; He can't be wrong, whose life is in the right. POPE'S Essay on Man. 4. Faith builds a bridge across the gulf of death, To break the shock blind Nature cannot shun, And lands thought smoothly on the farther shore. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. Death's terror is the mountain faith removes, That mountain-barrier between man and peace: "T is faith disarms destruction, and absolves From every clamorous charge the guiltless tomb. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. Fond as we are, and justly fond of faith, Reason, we grant, demands our first regard; YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 8. Vital principle, which keeps my heart Firm, 'mid the pressure of a thousand ills, Mingling with bliss the bitter cup it fills. MRS. S. MOWBRAY. FALSEHOOD-TRUTH - SINCERITY 1. He is a freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 2. I cannot hide what I am: I must be Cowper. Sad when I have a cause, and smile at no man's 3. This, above all, to thine own self be true; And it must follow, as the night the day, Thou canst not then be false to any man. 4. In many looks the false heart's history SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. Is writ, in moods, and frowns, and wrinkles strange. 5. Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, SHAKSPEARE. 258 FALSEHOOD-TRUTH, &c. 6. I think good thoughts, while others write good words, 7. The man of pure and simple heart 8. What he says SHAKSPEARE. GAY'S Fubles. You may believe, and pawn your soul upon it. SHIRLEY. 9. "Twixt truth and error there's this diff'rence known, Error is fruitful, truth is only one. HERRICK. 10. Dishonour waits on perfidy. The villain C. JOHNSON. 11. Let falsehood be a stranger to thy lips. Shame on the policy that first began To tamper with the heart, to hide its thoughts! 12. When fiction rises, pleasing to the eye, Men will believe, because they love the lie; 13. The sages say, dame Truth delights to dwell,— HAVARD. CHURCHILL. DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. 14. 15. Of Painting or of Sculpture to express CUMBERLAND'S Philemon. Beyond all contradiction, The most sincere that ever dealt in fiction. BYRON'S Don Juan. BYRON'S Don Juan. 16. My smiles must be sincere, or not at all. 17. "T is strange, but true; for truth is always strange, How much would novels gain by the exchange! BYRON'S Don Juan. 18. I know the action was extremely wrong; I own it, I deplore it, I condemn it; But I detest all fiction, even in song, And so must tell the truth, howe'er you blame it. BYRON'S Don Juan. 19. I mean to show things as they really are, Not as they ought to be; for I avow That till we see what's what in fact, we're far BYRON'S Don Juan. 20. First, I would have thee cherish truth, As leading-star in virtue's train; Folly may pass, nor tarnish youth, But falsehood leaves a poison-stain. MISS ELIZA COOK. 21. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again,- W. C. BRYANT. |