DCCCX.

To give pain is the tyranny, to make happy, the true empire, of beauty.-Steele.

DCCCXI.

It is generally known, that he who expects much will be often disappointed; yet disappointment seldom cures us of expectation, or has any other effect than that of producing a moral sentence, or peevish exclamation.— Johnson.

DCCCXII.

All live by seeming.

The beggar begs with it, the gay courtier
Gains land and title, rank and rule, by seeming:
The clergy scorn it not, and the bold soldier
Will eke with it his service.-All admit it,
All practise it; and he who is content

With showing what he is, shall have small credit
In church, or camp, or state.-So wags the world.
Old Play.

DCCCXIII.

A man that only translates, shall never be a poet; nor a painter that only copies; nor a swimmer that swims always with bladders; so people that trust wholly to others' charity, and without industry of their own, will always be poor.-Sir W. Temple.

DCCCIV.

As our stage heroes are generally lovers, their swelling and blustering upon the stage very much recommends them to the fair part of their audience. The ladies are wonderfully pleased to see a man insulting kings, or affronting the gods, in one scene, and throwing himself at the feet of his mistress in another. Let him behave himself insolently towards the men, and abjectly towards the fair one, and it is ten to one but he proves a favourite with the boxes. Dryden and Lee, in several of their tragedies, have practised this secret with good success. -Addison.

DCCCXV.

I pray thee, love, love me no more,
Call home the heart you gave me,
I but in vain that saint adore,

That can, but will not save me.
These poor half kisses kill me quite:
Was ever man thus served?

Amidst an ocean of delight,

For pleasure to be starved.

Drayton-to his Coy Love.

DCCCXVI.

When I consider what kind of men are made knights in England, it appears strange, that they have never conferred this honour upon women. They make cheese mongers and pastry-cooks knights; then why not their wives? they have called up tallow-chandlers to maintain the hardy profession of chivalry and arms; then why not their wives? Certain I am, their wives understand fighting and feats of mellay and battle better than they; and as for nightly horse and harnish, it is probable, both know nothing more than the harness of a one-horse chaise.-Goldsmith.

DCCCXVII.

Inquisitive people are the funnels of conversation; they do not take in any thing for their own use, but merely to pass it to another.-Steele.

DCCCXVIII.

Learning is an addition beyond

Nobility of birth: honour of blood,

Without the ornament of knowledge, is
A glorious ignorance.

DCCCXIX.

J. Shirley.

Authors in France seldom speak ill of each other, but when they have a personal pique; authors in England seldom speak well of each other, but when they have a personal friendship.-Pope.

DCCCXX.

Costly followers are not to be liked; lest while a man maketh his train longer, he make his wings shorter.Lord Bacon.

DCCCXXI.

How blind is pride! what eagles are we still
In matters that belong to other men!
What beetles in our own.

DCCCXXII.

Chapman.

There are some that profess idleness in its full dignity, who call themselves the Idle, as Busiris in the play calls himself the Proud, who boast that they do nothing, and thank their stars that they have nothing to do; who sleep every night till they can sleep no longer, and rise only that exercise may enable them to sleep again; who prolong the reign of darkness by double curtains; and never see the sun but to tell him how they hate his beams; whose whole labour is to vary the posture of indulgence, and whose day differs from their night but as a couch or chair differs from a bed.-Johnson.

DCCCXXIII.

"Tis not safe for priests or courtiers to drink deep, for fear of throwing their hearts out at their mouths.— Erasmus.

DCCCXXIV.

O, how I hate the monstrousness of time,
Where every servile imitating spirit,
Plagued with an itching leprosy of wit,
In a mere halting fury, strives to fling
His ulcerous body in the Thespian spring,
And straight leaps forth a poet! but as lame
As Vulcan, or the founder of Cripplegate.

DCCCXXV.

Ben Jonson.

He that will divide a minute into a thousand parts, and break but a part of the thousandth part of a minute in the affairs of love, it may be said of him, that

Cupid hath clapp'd him o' the shoulder, but I warrant him heart-whole.-Shakspeare.

DCCCXXVI.

The understanding has something more to do than simply to judge us by our outward action; must penetrate the very soul, and there discover by what springs the motion is guided: but that being a high and hazardous undertaking, I could wish that fewer would attempt it.-Montaigne.

DCCCXXVII.

He does mainly vary from my sense,
Who thinks the empire gain'd by violence
More absolute and durable than that

Which gentleness and friendship do create.

DCCCXXVIII.

Terence.

Passion is the great mover and spring of the soul: when men's passions are strongest, they may have great and noble effects; but they are then also apt to fall into the greatest miscarriages.-Sprat.

DCCCXXIX.

It is a good thing to laugh at any rate; and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness. Beasts can weep when they suffer, but they cannot laugh. -Dryden.

DCCCXXX.

Why will mankind be fools, and be deceiv'd?
And why are friends' and lovers' oaths believ'd;
When each, who searches strictly his own mind,
May so much fraud and power of baseness find?
Congreve.

DCCCXXXI.

"The folly of fools," that is, the most egregious piece of folly that any man can be guilty of, is to play the knave. The vulgar translation renders this clause a little otherwise, the fool turns aside to tricks; to make use of them is a sign that the man wants understanding to see the direct way to his end.-Tillotson.

DCCCXXXII.

A woman may properly be said to choose her husband by her eyes, who minds nothing but his person and bare outside; as she may be said to choose him by her ears, who carefully observes what reputation he has in the world, and what people say of him.-Erasmus.

DCCCXXXIII.
Women are frail,

Ay, as the glasses where they view themselves;
Which are as easy broke as they make forms.
Women!-Help heaven! Men their creation mar
In profiting by them. Nay, call us ten times frail;
For we are soft as our complexions are,
And credulous to false prints.

DCCCXXXIV.

Shakspeare.

A man that loves his own fireside, and can govern his house without falling by the ears with his neighbours, or engaging in suits at law, is as free as a Duke of Venice.-Montaigne.

DCCCXXXV.

Now, gentlemen, I go
To turn an actor, and a humourist,
Where, ere I do resume my present person,
We hope to make the circles of your eyes
Flow with distilled laughter: if we fail,
We must impute it to this only chance,
Art hath an enemy call'd Ignorance!

Prologue to Every Man out of his Humour-Ben Jonson.

DCCCXXXVI.

All false practices and affectations of knowledge are more odious to God, and deserve to be so to men, than any want or defect of knowledge can be.-Sprat.

DCCCXXXVII.

I know not by what fate it comes to pass, that historians, who give immortality to others, are so ill requited by posterity, that their actions and their fortunes are VOL. II.

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