CONTEMPT-CONTENTMENT. 90 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, And yet, perhaps, thou wilt not thank me for it. 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! What is your quarrel? how began it first? -No quarrel, but a sweet contention. Where two raging fires meet together, Tennyson. Sh. Hen. VI. 3. 1. 2. They do consume the thing that feeds their fury: Though little fire grows great with little wind, Yet extreme gusts will blow out fire and all. Sh. Tam. S. 11. 1. CONTENTMENT. He that commends me to mine own content, Commends me to the thing I cannot get. My crown is in my heart, not on my head; Sh. Com. E. 1. 2. A crown it is, that seldom kings enjoy. Sh. Hen. VI. 3. III. 1. Poor and content is rich, and rich enough; But riches fineless is as poor as winter To him that ever fears he shall be poor. Sh. Oth. 111. 3. To whom the wise indulgency of heaven, With sparing hand, but just enough has given. Cowley. Cellars and granaries in vain we fill With all the bounteous summer's store, If the mind thirst and hunger still: The poor rich man's emphatically poor. Cowley. CONTENTMENT. 91 CONTENTMENT-continued. Let's live with that small pittance which we have; Who with a little cannot be content, Endures an everlasting punishment. Herrick, Aph. 112. I meddle with no man's business but my own; Eat and drink cheerfully, live soberly, Take my innocent pleasures freely. Since every man who lives is born to die, Otway. our care. The world's an inn, and death the journey's end. Dryden, Palamon and Arcite, 3. Since all great souls still make their own content, We to ourselves may all our wishes grant; For nothing coveting, we nothing want. Dryden. They cannot want who wish not to have more : Who ever said an anchoret was poor? 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, The post of honour is a private station. Addison, Cato, Iv. The remnant of his days he safely past, Nor found they lagg'd too slow, nor flew too fast; He made his wish with his estate comply, Joyful to live, yet not afraid to die. Prior. Some place the bliss on action, some on ease; Pope. Thrice happy they, the wise, contented poor, Collins. A good old shilling. Happy the man who, void of cares and strife, Man's rich with little, were his judgment true; Those few wants answer'd, bring sincere delights; But fools create themselves new appetites. John Phillips, Splendid Shilling. Young. 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 Is ever sweet contentment's blest abode. This is the charm, by sages often told, Can rear a garden in a desert waste. He, fairly looking into life's account, Saw frowns and favours were of like amount; Than he who, in his cot at rest, Of treasure in the skies? Percival Kirke White. What tho' we quit all glitt'ring pomp and greatness, Is greatness, power, wealth, honour, all summ'd up. Crabbe. Mrs. Sigourney. The busy, noisy flattery of courts, We shall enjoy content: in that alone Powell. King of Naples. CONTROVERSY. Soon their crude notions with each other fought; Prior. When subtle doctors scripture made their prize, Denham. As if divinity had catch'd He could raise scruples dark and nice, The itch on purpose to be scratch'd. Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 163. CONTROVERSY-CONVERSATION. CONTROVERSY-continuca. When civil dudgeon first grew high, 93 Butler, Hud. 1, 1. 1. Dryden. Wild controversy then, which long had slept, The good old man, too eager in dispute, Flew high; and as his christian fury rose, 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. Great contest follows, and much learned dust Pope. Cowper, Task, III. 161. Involves the combatants; each claiming truth, And truth disclaiming both. CONVERSATION. 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, Not as if raised by mere mechanic powers. Cowper, Conv. 703. Discourse may want an animated no, ease. Cowper, Con. 101. surface, and to make it flow; that keep The in their radiant courses, Praed, The Vicar. More proselytes and converts use t' accrue 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. COPYING-COPYIST. Garrick, Epigr. on Goldsmith's Retal. 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, Begin his fashion. Sh. Jul. C. IV. 1. COQUETTE. The maid, whom now you court in vain, Will quickly run in quest of man. Horace (Francis). I do confess thou'rt sweet, but find The vain coquette each suit disdains, Who hath not heard coquettes complain Herrick. Gay, Fables. Gay, Dione. Gay, Fables. The pleasure miss'd her, and the scandal hit. Pope, M. 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