SATIRE-continued. SATIRE-SCANDAL. When scandal has new-minted an old lie, Some whisper'd softly, and some twang'd aloud, 539 Suggests it safe or dangerous to be plain. Cowper, Charity,513. At princes let but satire raise his gun, The more their feathers fly, the more the fun! E'en the whole world, blockheads and men of letters, Enjoy a cannonade upon their betters. Peter Pindar. Prepare for rhyme-I'll publish, right or wrong; Fools are my theme, let satire be my song. Byron, Eng. Bards. In general satire, every man perceives A slight attack, yet neither fears nor grieves. Crabbe, Squire and Priest. You must not think that a satiric style SAVIOUR, (OUR). Of all creation first, Begotten Son, divine Similitude, In whose conspicuous count'nance, without cloud, SCANDAL- -see Slander, Society. You know Roscommon. Milton, P. L. III. 384. That I do fawn on men, and hug them hard, He rams his quill with scandal and with scoff, Sh. Jul. C. 1. 2. But 'tis so very foul, it won't go off. Young, Ep. to Pope, 1.197. What is a scandal of the first renown, But letter'd knaves and atheists in a gown? Flavia, most tender of her own good name, But if she touch a character it dies. Ib. 11. 63. Cowper, Charity, 453. 540 SCANDAL continued. SCANDAL-SCEPTICISM. No scandal about Queen Elizabeth I hope. Sheridan, Critic,II.1. The elder ladies' wrinkles curled much crisper Smiled as she talked the matter o'er: but tears Of rivalship rose in each clouded eye Of all the standing army who stood by. Byron, D. J. 1x. 78. The circle smil'd, then whisper'd, and then sneer'd : The misses bridled, and the matrons frown'd: Some hoped things might not turn out as they fear'd: Poor Lord Augustus Fitz-Plantagenet. Byron, D. J. xiv. 44. Of loudly publishing his neighhour's shame; On eagles' wings immortal scandals fly, While virtuous actions are but born and die. Eleanora Hervey. SCARS. He jests at scars that never felt a wound. How often have I paused on every charm, The never-failing brook, the busy mill, Sh. Rom. II. 2. The decent church, that topp'd the neighbouring hill ; For talking age and whispering lovers made. Goldsmith, Deserted Village, 9. SCEPTICISM-sec Learning, Infidelity. Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce His works unwise, of which the smallest part Exceeds the narrow visions of our mind. Thomson, Sum. 318 Heaven is all love; all joy in giving joy, It never had created but to bliss, And shall it, then, strike off the list of life A being bless'd, or worthy so to be ? Heaven starts at an annihilating God. Young, N. T. vii. 475. SCEPTICISM-SCHOOL, SCHOOL-BOY, ETC. SCEPTICISM-continued. This a sacred rule we find Among the nicest of mankind, (Which never might exception brook From Hobbes even down to Bolingbroke,) To doubt of facts, however true, 541 Unless they know the causes too. Churchill, Ghost, II. 354. Oh! lives there, heaven! beneath thy dread expanse, One hopeless, dark idolater of chance, Content to feed with pleasures unrefin'd, The lukewarm passions of a lowly mind; Who mouldering earthward, 'reft of every trust, In joyless union wedded to the dust, Could all his parting energy dismiss, And call this barren world sufficient bliss ? Campbell, Pl. Hope. SCHISMATICS. Our schismatics so vastly differ, The hotter they're they grow the stiffer; For zeal's a dreadful termagant, That teaches saints to tear and rant. Butler, Hud. 3, 11. 673. SCHOLAR, SCHOLARSHIP—see Authors, Character. I'll talk a word with this same learned Theban. Sh. Lear,111.4. Webster, The White Devil, 1. 1. SCHOOL, SCHOOL-BOY, SCHOOL-DAYS, SCHOOLMASTER-see Boy hood, Education, Flogging. Tell arts they have no soundness, But vary by esteeming ; Tell schools they lack profoundness, And stand too much on seeming. Sir W. Raleigh. Who, therefore, finds the artificial'st fools, Have not been chang'd i' th' cradle, but the schools. Where error, pedantry, and affectation, Run them behind-hand with their education; And all alike are taught poetic rage, When hardly one's fit for it in an age. Alas, regardless of their doom, Butler, Sat. 1. No sense have they of ills to come. Gray, Ode on Eton College. 542 SCHOOL, SCHOOL-BOY, ETC.-SCIENCE. SCHOOL, SCHOOL-BOY, &c.-continued Ah, happy hills! ah, pleasing shade! Where once my careless childhood stray'd, I feel the gales that from ye blow, A momentary bliss bestow, As waving fresh their gladsome wing, Gray, Ode on Eton College. Beside yon straggling fence that skirts the way, I knew him well, and every truant knew ; Well had the boding tremblers learn'd to trace, The day's disasters in his morning face. Goldsmith, D. Vil. 193. The school was done, the bus'ness o'er, SCIENCE-see Genius, Knowledge. Crabbe, Schools, 24. Combe, Dr. Syntax, 1. 1. We that acquaint ourselves with every zone, And pass both tropics, and behold both poles; When we come home are to ourselves unknown, And unacquainted still with our own souls. Sir John Davies. Trace science then, with modesty thy guide; First strip off all her equipage of pride · Deduct what is but vanity or dress, Or learning's luxury, or idleness; SCIENCE-continued. SCIENCE SCORN. Or tricks to show the stretch of human brain, Then see how little the remaining sum Which serv'd the past, and must the times to come. 543 Pope, E. M. II. 47. What cannot art and industry perform, Beattie, Minstrel, 11. 54. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, 325. Blessings on Science! When the earth seem'd old, When Faith grew doting, and our Reason cold, 'Twas she discover'd that the world was young, And taught a language to its lisping tongue. 'Twas she disclosed a future to its view, And made old knowledge pale before the new. Blessings on Science, and her handmaid Steam! They make Utopia only half a dream; And show the fervent, of capacious souls, Who watch the ball of progress as it rolls, That all as yet completed, or begun, Is but the dawning that precedes the sun. SCORN-see Kissing. Charles Mackay, Railways. Scorn at first, makes after-love the more. Alas! to make me A fixed figure, for the time of scorn Sh. Two G. III. 1. Sh. Jul. C. IV. 3. Oh! what a thing, ye gods, is scorn or pity! Let me be horrid to all apprehension, Sh. Oth. IV. 2. And the world shun me, so I 'scape but scorn. Lee, Theodosius. Know ye not then, saith Satan, fill'd with scorn, Know ye not me? ye knew me once no mate For you, there sitting where ye durst not soar : Not to know me argues yourself unknown. Milton, P.L.IV.827. |