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REVERSES-REVOLUTIONISTS.

REVERSES-see Adversity, Greatness, Misfortune, Patience.
You should have feared false times, when you did feast;
Suspect still comes when an estate is least. Sh. Timon, Iv. 3.
Ebbing men, indeed,

Most often do so near the bottom run,

By their own fear and sloth.

A brave man struggling in the storms of fate,
And greatly falling with a falling state.

Sh. Temp. II. 1.

Pope, Prol. to Addison's Cato. In the worst inn's worst room, with mat half-hung, The floors of plaster and the walls of dung, On once a flock-bed, but repaired with straw, With tape-tied curtains, never meant to draw, The George and Garter dangling from that bed Where tawdry yellow strove with dirty red, Great Villiers lies-alas! how changed from him,

That life of pleasure and that soul of whim! Ib. M. E. 111. 299. Extremes of fortune are true wisdom's test,

And he's of men most wise who bears them best. Cumberland. REVOLUTION-see Despotism.

The world is grown so bad,

That wrens may prey where eagles dare not perch;
Since every Jack became a gentleman,

There's many a gentle person made a Jack. Sh. Ric. III. 1. 3.
There is great talk of revolution,
And a great chance of despotism,
German soldiers, camps, confusion,
Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion,
Gin, suicide, and methodism.

The whirlpool of the hour ingulfs

The growth of centuries!

Shelley, Hell, III.

Pause ere ye rive,

With strength of fever, things embedded long

In social being: you'll uproot no form

With which the thoughts and habits of weak mortals

Have long been twined, without the bleeding rent

Of thousand ties, which to the common heart

Of nature link it.

REVOLUTIONISTS-see Rabble.

Fickle changelings, and poor discontents,
Which gape, and rub the elbow, at the news
Of hurly burly innovation.

Moody beggars, starving for a time
Of pellmell havoc and confusion.

Talfourd.

Sh. Hen. IV. v. 1.

RHETORIC-RHYME.

RHETORIC-see Law, Oratory.

And when she spake,

Sweet words, like dropping honey, she did shed:
And 'twixt the pearls and rubies softly brake

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A silver sound that heavenly music seem'd to make. Spenser. For rhetoric, he could not ope

His mouth, but out there flew a trope. Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 81. RHINE.

The river Rhine, it is well known,

Doth wash your city of Cologne ;

But tell me, nymphs! what power divine

Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine ? Coleridge, Cologne. RHYME-see Poetry, Verse.

For rhyme the rudder is of verses,

With which, like ships, they steer their courses.

Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 463.

In praising Chloris, moons and stars and skies,
Are quickly made to match her face and eyes;
And gold and rubies, with as little care,
To fit the colour of her lips and hair;

And mixing suns and flowers and pearls and stones,
Make 'em all complexions serve at once.

Butler, Sat. 2.

Butler, Sat. 2.

May he be damn'd, who first found out that curse,
T' imprison and confine his thoughts in verse;
To hang so dull a clog upon his wit,
And make his reason to his rhyme submit.
Rash author, 'tis a vain, presumptuous crime,
To undertake the sacred art of rhyme;
If at thy birth the stars that rul'd thy sense
Shone not with a poetic influence;
In thy strait genius thou wilt still be bound,
Find Phœbus deaf, and Pegasus unsound.

Dryden, Art of Poetry, 1. 1.

Whate'er you write of pleasant or sublime,
Always let sense accompany your rhyme;
Falsely they seem each other to oppose;
Rhyme must be made with reason's laws to close.
Great are his perils in this stormy time,

Ib. 1. 27.

Who rashly ventures on a sea of rhyme;

Around vast surges roll, winds envious blow,

And jealous rocks and quicksands lurk below,

Greatly his foes he dreads, but more his friends,
He hurts me more who lavishly commends.
The rhyme obliges me to this; sometimes

Churchill.

Kings are not more imperative than rhymes. Byron, D. J.v.78.

The diff"rence 'twixt the covetous and prodigal !
The covetous man never has money,
And the prodigal will have none shortly.

Ben Jonson, Staple of News.

They're richer who diminish their desires,
Though their possessions be not amplified,
Than monarchs, who, in owning large empires,
Have minds that never will be satisfied.
For he is poor that wants what he would have;
And rich, who having nought, doth nothing crave.

Sir Thomas Urquhart, 1646.

Extol not riches then, the toil of fools,
The wise man's cumbrance, if not snare; more apt
To slacken virtue, and abate her edge,
Than prompt her to do aught may merit praise.

'Tis not your person

Milton, P. R. II. 453.

My stomach's set so sharp and fierce on;

But 'tis your better part, your riches,

That my enamour'd heart bewitches. Butler, Hud. 2, 1. 473.

Riches cannot rescue from the grave,

Which claims alike the monarch and the slave.

Why lose we life in anxious cares,

To lay in hoards for future years?
Can those, when tortur'd by disease,

Cheer our sick hearts, or purchase ease?

Can those prolong one gasp of breath,

Dryden.

Or calm the troubled hour of death? Gay, Fable xvI. part 2.

To whom can riches give repute and trust,

Content or pleasure, but the good and just?

Judges and senates have been bought for gold,

Esteem and love were never to be sold. Pope, M. E. 11. 171.

Riches, the wisest monarch sings,

Make pinions for themselves to fly;
They fly like bats on parchment wings,
And geese their silver plumes supply.
O grievous folly to heap up estate,
Losing the days you see beneath the sun,
When, sudden, comes blind unrelenting Fate,
And gives th' untasted portion you have won
With ruthless toil, and many a wretch undone,
To those who mock you, gone to Pluto's reign.

Swift.

Thomson, Castle of Indolence, 1. 19.

RICHES-continued.

RICHES.

Much learning shows how little mortals know;
Much wealth, how little worldlings can enjoy :
At best, it babies us with endless toys,
And keeps us children till we drop to dust.
As monkeys at a mirror stand amaz'd,
They fail to find what they so plainly see;
Thus men, in shining riches, see the face
Of happiness, nor know it is a shade;
But
gaze, and touch, and реер, and peep again,
And wish, and wonder it is absent still.
High-built abundance, heap on heap! for what?
To breed new wants, and beggar us the more;
Then, make a richer scramble for the throng.
Ye friends to truth, ye statesmen who survey
The rich man's joys increase, the poor's decay,
"Tis yours to judge how wide the limits stand

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Young, N. T. vi.

Ib. N. T. VI.

Between a splendid and a happy land. Goldsmith, Des. Vil.
Then let us get money, like bees lay up honey;
We'll build us new hives and store up each cell;

The sight of our treasure shall yield us great pleasure,
We'll count it, and chink it, and jingle it well.

Dr. Franklin, Drinking Song.

Cumberland, Menander.

Abundance is a blessing to the wise;
The use of riches in discretion lies;
Learn this, ye men of wealth-a heavy purse
In a fool's pocket is a heavy curse.
The rich man's son inherits cares;
The bank may break, the factory burn,
A breath may burst his bubble-shares,
And soft white hands could hardly earn
A living that would serve his turn.

RIDICULE- -see Jesting.

But touch me, and no minister so sore;
Whoe'er offends, at some unlucky time
Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme ;
Sacred to ridicule his whole life long,
And the sad burden of some merry song.

RIFLE-CORPS-see Soldiers,

J. L. Lowell, (Am.)

Pope, Imitations of Horace, 11. 76.

When he speaks not like a citizen, You find him like a soldier.

Sh. Coriol. III. 3.

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RINGLETS-ROMANCES.

RINGLETS-see Hair, Tresses.

This nymph, to the destruction of mankind,
Nourish'd two locks, which graceful hung behind
In equal curls, and well conspir'd to deck,
With shining ringlets, the smooth ivory neck.
Love in these labyrinths his slaves detains,
And mighty pearls are held in slender chains.
With hairy springes we the birds betray

Slight lines of hair surprise the finny prey. Pope, R.of L.11.20.

RIVALRY.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere.

Base rivals, who true wit and merit hate,
Caballing still against it with the great,
Maliciously aspire to gain renown,

By standing up, and pulling others down.

Love, and a crown, no rivalship can bear;

Sh. Hen. IV. 1, v. 4.

Dryden.

All precious things are still possess'd with fear. Ib. Aurengz.

RIVERS-see Rhine, Thames.

And see the rivers how they run

Through woods and meads, in shade and sun;

Sometimes swift, sometimes slow,

Wave succeeding wave, they go

A various journey to the deep,

Like human life, to endless sleep!

Dyer, Grongar Hill.

A little stream came tumbling from the height,

And struggling unto ocean as it might.

Its bounding crystal frolick'd in the ray,

And gush'd from cleft to crag with saltless spray. Byron,Island. ROBIN HOOD.

A famous man is Robin Hood,
The English ballad-singer's joy!
And Scotland has a thief as good,

An outlaw of as daring mood;

She has her brave Rob Roy. Wordsworth, Rob Roy's Grave. ROBBERY- -see Resignation.

He that is robb'd, not wanting what is stolen,

Let him not know't, and he's not robb'd at all. Sh. Oth. 111. 3. ROD.

Love is a boy by poets styl'd,

Then spare the rod, and spoil the child. Butler, Hud. 2, 1. 843. ROMANCES-see Novels, Stories, Tales.

O then, I see, queen Mab hath been with you. Sh. Rom. 1.4.