wince
Hence, thou suborn'd informer! a true soul,
When most impeach'd, stands least in thy control.

INGRATITUDE-see Curses.

I hate ingratitude more in a man

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice, whose strong corruption
Inhabits our frail blood.

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

Sh. Sonnet 125.

Sh. Tw. N. III. 4.

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude;
Thy tooth is not so keen,
Because thou art not seen,

Although thy breath be rude.

Sh. As Y. L. 11. 7.

Sh. H. VIII. III. 2.

Had I but serv'd my God with half the zeal
I serv'd my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies!

Time hath a wallet at his back,

Wherein he puts alms for oblivion,

A great-sized monster of ingratitude.

Those scraps are good deeds past, which are devoured

As fast as they are made, forgot as soon

I am rapt, and cannot cover

As done.

Sh. Troil. III. 3.

The monstrous bulk of this ingratitude

With any size of words !

Sh. Timon, v. 1.

The hedge-sparrow fed the cuckoo so long,

That it had its head bit off by its young.

Sh. Lear, 1. 4

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,

More hideous, when thou shew'st thee in a child

Than the sea-monster!

Sh. Lear, 1. 4.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is

To have a thankless child !

Sh. Lear, 1. 4.

Is it not as this mouth should tear this hand,
For lifting food to 't.

Filial ingratitude!

Sh. Lear, 111. 4.

Of deeper dye than all the guilty train

Of human vices, 'tis ingratitude. Brooke, Earl of Warwick.

He that doth public good for multitudes,
Finds few are truly grateful.

Marston, Sophonisba.

The wretch, whom gratitude once fails to vind,
To truth or honour let him lay no claim,
But stand confess'd the brute disguised in man;
And when we would with utmost detestation,
Single some monster from the traitor head,
'Tis but to say ingratitude's his crime.

Frowde, Philotas.

All should unite to punish the ungrateful;
Ingratitude is treason to mankind. Thomson, Coriol. 1. 4.

He that's ungrateful, has no guilt but one;

All other crimes may pass for virtues in him. Young, Busiris, 2.

So the struck eagle stretch'd upon the plain,
No more through rolling clouds to soar again,
View'd his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing'd the shaft that quivered in his heart;
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nurs'd the pinion which impelled the steel.

Byron, English Bards. (On Kirke White.)

The thorns which I have reap'd are of the tree

I planted, they have torn me, and I bleed;

I should have known what fruit would spring from such a

seed.

INHUMANITY.

A stony adversary, an inhuman wretch,

Incapable of pity, void and empty

From every drachm of mercy.

INJURY.

Byron, Ch. H. IV. 10.

Sh. M. of Ven. IV. 1.

The offender's sorrow lends but weak relief

To him who bears the strong offence's cross. Sh. Sonnet 34.

INN-see Tavern.

Whoe'er has travelled life's dull round,

Where'er his stages may have been,

May sigh to think he still has found,

The warmest welcome at an inn.

Shenstone, Lines on the window of an inn at Henley. INN-continued

INN-INNOCENCE.

Near yonder thorn, that lifts its head on high,
Where once the sign-post caught the passing eye,
Low lies that house where nut-brown draughts inspired,
Where gray beard mirth and smiling toil retired,
Where village statesmen talk'd with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.

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At a false accusation, doth the more
Confirm itself; and guilt is best discover'd
By its own fears.

Happy the innocent, whose equal thoughts
Are free from anguish as they are from faults.

Nabbes, Bride.

Waller.

I thank the gods, no secret thoughts reproach me,
No; I dare challenge Heaven to turn me outward,
And shake my soul quite empty in their sight.

Dryden.

The bloom of opening flowers' unsullied beauty,
Softness, and sweetest innocence she wears,

And looks like nature in the world's first spring.

Rowe.

There is no courage but in innocence;

No constancy, but in an honest cause. Southerne, Fate Capua.

Against the head which innocence secures,

Insidious malice aims her darts in vain;

Turn'd backwards by the powerful breath of heav'n.

Dr. Johnson, Irene. 288

INSCRUTABILITY-INSTINCT.

INSCRUTABILITY-see Providence,

Thou great mysterious Power, who hast involved

Thy wise decrees in darkness, to perplex

The pride of human wisdom, to confound
The daring scrutiny, and prove the faith
Of thy presuming creatures!

INSPIRATION.

Hannah More.

How can my muse want subject to invent,
While thou dost breathe, that pour'st into my verse
Thine own sweet argument, too excellent
For every vulgar paper to rehearse P
O, give thyself the thanks, if aught in me.
Worthy perusal, stand against thy sight:
For who's so dumb that cannot write to thee,
When thou thyself dost give invention light ?
Be thou the tenth muse, ten times more in worth
Than those old nine, which rhymers invocate;
And he that calls on thee, let him bring forth
Eternal numbers to outlive long date.

If my slight muse do please these curious days,
The pain be mine, but thine shall be the praise. Sh. Son. 38.

Beware what spirit rages in your breast,
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possest.

The muse of inspiration plays
O'er every scene; she walks the forest-maze,
And climbs the mountain; every blooming spot
Burns with her step, yet man regards it not!

INSTINCT-see Reason.

Then vainly the philosopher avers

That reason guides our deeds, and instinct theirs.
How can we justly different causes frame,
When the effects entirely are the same P

Instinct and reason how can we divide P

Roscommon.

Moore.

'Tis the fool's ignorance, and the pedant's pride. Prior Sol.

The spider's touch, how exquisitely fine!

Feels at each thread, and lives along the line:
In the nice bee what sense, so subtly true,
From poisonous herbs extracts the healing dew?
How instinct varies in the growling swine,
Compar'd, half-reasoning elephant, with thine;
'Twixt that and reason what a nice barrier!
For ever sep'rate, yet for ever near. Pope, E. M. 1. 219.
Who taught the nations of the field and wood
To shun their poison and to choose their food.

16. 111. 99.

INSTINCT-continued.

INSTINCT- INVENTION.

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Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield;

Learn from the beasts the physic of the field;

Thy art of building from the bee receive;

Learn of the mole to plough, the worm to weave. Ib. III. 173.

Oft when blind mortals think themselves secure,

In height of bliss, they touch the brink of ruin.

INSTRUCTION-see Education.

Thomson, Agamemnon.

He is a good divine that follows his
Own instructions; I can easier teach twenty
What were good to be done, than to be one
Of the twenty to follow my own teaching:
The brain may devise laws for the blood, but
A hot temper leaps o'era cold decree.

Sh. M of V. 1. 2.

INTEGRITY-see Conscience, Honour.
What stronger breastplate than a heart untainted?

Sh. Hen. VI. 2, III. 2.

Do right; though pain and anguish be thy lot,

Thy heart will cheer thee when the pain's forgot:

Do wrong for pleasure's sake, then count thy gains,-

The pleasure soon departs, the sin remains.

INTENTION.

Shuttleworth, Bp. of Chichester.

In every work regard the writer's end,

Since none can compass more than they intend.

INTEREST.

Foul cankering rust the hidden treasure frets;

Pope.

But gold that's put to use, more gold begets. Sh. Ven. & Ad.

Interest is the most prevailing cheat;

The sly seducer both of age and youth :

They study that, and think they study truth.

Where interest fortifies an argument,

Weak reason serves to gain the will's assent;

For souls already warped, receive an easy bent.

INVENTION.

Th' invention all admir'd, and each, how he

To be th' inventor miss'd; so easy it seem'd,

Dryden.

Once found, which yet unfound most would have thought

Impossible.

Milton, P. L. vI. 498.

All the inventions that the world contains,

Were not by reason first found out, nor brains;

But pass for theirs who had the luck to light

Upon them by mistake or oversight.

Butler, Hud.

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