90 CONTEMPT- -CONTENTMENT. CONTEMPT-continued. From no one vice exempt, And most contemptible to shun contempt. Think not there is no smile I can bestow upon thee. There is a smile, Shall it not be scorn to me Pope. Joanna Baillie, De Montford. To harp on such a moulder'd string? CONTENTION. Sons and brothers at a strife! Where two raging fires meet together, Tennyson. Sh. Hen. VI. 3. 1. 2. They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Sh. Tam. S. II. 1. CONTENTMENT. He that commends me to mine own content, Sh. Com. E. 1. 2. My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Much will always wanting be Sh. Oth. III. 3. Sh. Hen. VIII. II. 3. To him who much desires. Thrice happy he If the mind thirst and hunger still: The poor rich man's emphatically poor. Cowley. Cowley. CONTENTMENT. CONTENTMENT-continued. Let's live with that small pittance which we have ; 91 Who covets more, is evermore a slave. Herrick, Aph. 122. Who with a little cannot be content, Endures an everlasting punishment. Herrick, Aph. 112. I meddle with no man's business but my own; I rise in the morning early, study moderately, Otway. Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, 3. Since all great souls still make their own content, Dryden. Dryden. Content is wealth, the riches of the mind; And happy he who can that treasure find. Dryden. Content thyself to be obscurely good: When vice prevails, and impious men bear sway, Addison, Cato, IV. Nor found they lagg'd too slow, nor flew too fast; Some place the bliss on action, some on ease; Prior. Pope. Collins. John Phillips, Splendid Shilling. Man's rich with little, were his judgment true; Nature is frugal, and her wants are few: Those few wants answer'd, bring sincere delights; Young. 92 CONTENTMENT-CONTROVERSY. CONTENTMENT-continued. O, grant me, Heav'n, a middle state, Man wants but little here below, Mallet. Goldsmith, V. of Wakefield, 8. Happy the life, that in a peaceful stream, Obscure, unnoticed through the vale has flow'd; The heart that ne'er was charm'd by fortune's gleam This is the charm, by sages often told, Content can soothe, where'er by fortune placed, He, fairly looking into life's account, Than he who, in his cot at rest, Of treasure in the skies ? Percival Kirke White. Crabbe. Mrs. Sigourney. What tho' we quit all glitt'ring pomp and greatness, We shall enjoy content: in that alone Is greatness, power, wealth, honour, all summ'd up. CONTROVERSY. Powell. King of Naples. Soon their crude notions with each other fought; When subtle doctors scripture made their prize, He could raise scruples dark and nice, And after solve 'em in a trice; As if divinity had catch'd Prior. Denham. The itch on purpose to be scratch'd. Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 163. CONTROVERSY-CONVERSATION. 93 CONTROVERSY-continuea. When civil dudgeon first grew high, And made them fight, like mad or drunk, Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 1. Wild controversy then, which long had slept, Into the press from ruined cloisters leapt. The good old man, too eager in dispute, Dryden. Damn'd all for heretics who durst oppose. Dryden, Re. 237. Destroy his fib, or sophistry, in vain; The creature's at his dirty work again. Pope. Great contest follows, and much learned dust Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, CONVERSATION. Cowper, Task, III. 161. Formed by thy converse, happily to steer From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope, E. M. Iv. 379. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; But 'tis a task indeed to learn to hear: In that the skill of conversation lies; That shows or makes you both polite and wise. Young, L. F. 5. But conversation, choose what theme we may, And chiefly when religion leads the way, Should flow, like waters after summer show'rs, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. Cowper, Conv. 703. Discourse may want an animated no, To brush the surface, and to make it flow; But still remember, if you mean to please, To press your point with modesty and ease. Cowper, Con. 101. His talk is like a stream which runs Praed, The Vicar. 94 CONVERTS. CONVERTS-COQUETTE. More proselytes and converts use t' accrue To false persuasions than the right and true; For error and mistakes are infinite, While truth has but one way to be i' the right. Butler, M. T. COOKS. Herbs, and other country messes, Which the neat-handed Phyllis dresses. Milton. L'Alleg. 85. Heaven sends us good meat; but the devil sends cooks. Garrick, Epigr. on Goldsmith's Retal. COPYING-COPYIST. To copy beauties forfeits all pretence To fame; to copy faults is want of sense. Churchill, Ros. 457. A barren-spirited fellow: one that feeds On objects, arts, and imitations; Which, out of use, and staled by other men, COQUETTE. The maid, whom now you court in vain, I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find And since thou canst with more than one, The vain coquette each suit disdains, Sh. Jul. C. IV. 1. Horace (Francis). Perhaps this cruel nymph well knows to feign Herrick. Gay, Fables. Gay, Dione. Gay, Fables. The pleasure miss'd her, and the scandal hit. Pope, M. E. 2. |