ATTENTION-AUTHORITY. ATTENTION. As I listen'd to thee, The happy hours pass'd by us unperceived; And much more honest, to be hired, and stand AUDIT. He took my father grossly, full of bread, I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, AUTHENTICITY. Nor does it follow, 'cause a herald Can make a gentleman scarce a year old, Of ancient kings in a small space, Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 29 Denkam. Rowe. Dryden. Sh. Ham. III. 3. Sh. Coriol, 1. 1. Butler, 11. 3. 679. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven As make the angels weep! Sh. M. for M. 11. 2. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. A man in authority is but as A candle in the wind, sooner wasted Or blown out, than under a bushel. Not from grey hairs authority doth flow, Sh. Lear, iv. 6. Beau. & F. Four P. Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; Denham. 30 AUTHORITY-AUTHORS. AUTHORITY-continued. Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; Butler, Misc. Th. How many great ones may remember'd be, Spenser, Ruins of Time. Let authors write for glory or reward, No author ever spared a brother; Wits are gamecocks to one another. Bp.Corbet. Butler, Hudibras. Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules, Gay, Fable 10. The great ones are thought mad, the small ones fools; Pope. Pope, Apol. 27. For fools are only laughed at-wits are hated. Young. Young, Ep. to Pope, c. 1. AUTHORS-continued. AUTHORS-AUTHORSHIP. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, 31 To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Johnson, V. H. W. 159. We that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson, Prologue. Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Cowper, Task, III. 139. None but an author knows an author's cares, Cowper, Prog. of E. 516. Byron, Don Juan. Without, or with, offence to friends or foes, AUTHORSHIP-see Poems. He that writes, Byron, Eng. B. 51. Or makes a feast, more certainly invites Howard, Surpr. Prologue. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, E. P. Let authors write for glory or reward, Truth is well paid, when she is sung and heard. Bp. Corbet. This I hold A secret worth its weight in gold To those who write as I write now; Not to mind where they go, or how, Through ditch, through bog, o'er hedge and stile ; Make it but worth the reader's while, And keep a passage fair and plain, Always to bring him back again. Churchill 32 AUTHORSHIP-AUTUMN. AUTHORSHIP-continued. One hates an author that's all author, fellows These unquench'd snuffings of the midnight taper. Beppo, 75. His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise; Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport. Byron, D. J. V. 52. Our doctor thus, with stuff'd sufficiency Of all omnigenous omnisciency, Began (as who would not begin, Folios, quartos, large and small sorts. Some steal a thought, And clip it round the edge, and challenge him AUTUMN. Moore. Bailey, Festus. Donne: Not Spring or Summer's beauty hath such grace Thrice happy time, Best portion of the various year, in which 'Tis past! no more the Summer blooms! Behold, congenial Autumn comes, What time thy holy whispers breathe, Phillips, Cider, b. 2. And wears the verdure of decay, O, let me wander through the sounding woods! Logan Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; Keats. AVARICE-see Covetousness. AVARICE. When all sins are old in us, And go upon crutches, covetousness Does but then lie in her cradle. 33 Dekker, Honest Wh. p. 2. The rule, get money, still get money, boy, No matter by what means. Ben Jonson, Every Man, 11. 3. To gain poor seeming goods which, being got, Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper; And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. That cos'ning vice, although it seems to keep Quarles. May, Old Couple. But the base miser starves amidst his store, Dryden. Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Pope, E.M.11.131. Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Pope,M.E.11.169. Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd, As poison heals, in just proportion us'd; In heaps, like ambergris, a stink it lies, But well dispers'd, is incense to the skies. Pope, M.E.111.234. 'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy; Is it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? Pope, M.E.iv.3. Some, o'er-enamour'd of their bags, run mad, Groan under gold, yet weep for want of bread. Oh cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; Young, N.T. First starv'd in this, then damn'd in that to come. Blair, Grave. The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest: Dr. Johnson, Irene. The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! Peter Pindar. D |