Let all my soldiers quaff That gen'rous juice, by juggling priests deny'd, Lest it should help to whet our understandings, And ripen reason, to see through their crafts. Jas. Darcy, Love and Ambition. The obstructed tubes. Armstrong, Art of P.H. 11. 460. Armstrong, Art of P. H. 11. 490. Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Sermons and soda-water the day after. Byron, D. J. 11. 178. The young, makes weariness forget his toil, When this, the present, falls. Byron, Sardanapalus, 1. 2. Blind and impatient, and it leads us wrong; The strength is quickly lost, we feel the error long. Crabbe. WINNING. This swift business I must uneasy make, lest too light winning Sh. Temp. 1. 2. Sh. Love's L. L. VIII. 2, Sung. WINTER-continued. WINTER. See, winter comes to rule the varied year, 691 Thomson, Winter, 1. Now, when the cheerless empire of the sky Thomson, Winter, 41. All nature feels the renovating force The purer rivers flow: their sullen deeps, And murmur hoarser at the fixing frost. Thomson, Winter, 704, Who, here entangled in the gathering ice, Take their last look of the descending sun, While, full of death, and fierce with tenfold frost, Thomson, Winter, 920. Dread Winter spreads his latest glooms, Thomson, Winter, 1024. To-day is snow array'd, stern winter rules No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, T. Smollett. But winter lingering chills the lap of May. Goldsmith, Tr. 171. I crown thee king of intimate delights, Fire-side enjoyments, home-born happiness, And all the comforts that the lowly roof Of undisturb'd retirement, and the hours Of long, uninterrupted evening, know. Cowper, Task, Iv. 139. Oh Winter! ruler of the inverted year, Cowper, Task, IV. 120. The meads no more their former verdure boast, With mental light the melancholy day! Campbell, Pl. of H. Winter stalks in,with frozen mantle bound. Hon. Mrs. Norton. The dead leaves strew the forest-walk, And wither'd are the pale wild flowers; Gone are the spring's green sprouting bowers, Wisdom and fortune combating together, Barnard. Sh. Ant. Cleop. 11. 11. WISDOM-continued. WISDOM. Wealth, without wisdom, may live more content Of any since Solomon that pray'd for wit. 693 John Taylor, The Hog hath lost his Pearl. All foreign wisdom doth amount to this, To take all that is given, whether wealth, A good digestion turneth all to health. G.Herbert, the Temple. 'Tis but to know how little can be known; Abdicated Prince. To see all others' faults, and feel our own. Pope, E. M. IV. 260. No sooner born than the poor planter dies. Lady M.W.Montagu. And sweeter than the sweet ambrosial hive,— Ib. VIII. 620. That unobtain'd, than folly more a fool. Young, N. T. 11. 498. Teach me my days to number, and apply Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Ib. VIII. 1247. Ib. IX. 1314. Young, L. of F. 11. 282. Wisdom and Goodness are twin born, one heart Must hold both sisters, never seen apart. Cowper, Exp 634. When did wisdom covet length of days? WISHES, WISHING. Take this in good part, whoever thou be, Hannah More. Tennyson, Princess. And wish me no worse than I wish unto thee. Tusser,500 points. Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. Sh. H. iv. 2, 1v.4. Fate wings, with every wish, the afflictive dart, Each gift of nature, and each grace of art. Johnson, Vanity of Human Wishes, 15. Wishing, of all employments, is the worst, Philosophy's reverse; and health's decay! Young, N. T. iv.71. Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. Young, N. T. v. 661. But what are wishes? Wishes will not do: One cannot eat one's cake and have it too. Bickerstaff, Thomas and Sally, a burletta. In idle wishes fools supinely stay; Be there a will,-and wisdom finds a way. WIT-see Brevity, Jests, Vacuity. G. Crabbe, The Birth of Flattery. You can't expect that they should be great wits, Sympathize together; wit is expensive, It must be dieted with delicacies, It must be suckled with the richest wines, Or else it will grow flat and dull. Look, he's winding up the watch of his wit; Leave this keen encounter of our wits, A hit, a very palpable hit. Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking A. Neville. Sh. Temp. 11. 1. Sh. Ric. 111. 1. 2. Sh. Ham. v. 2. Sometimes a friend, sometimes an engineer; Many affecting wit beyond their power, Have got to be a dear fool for an hour. G. Herbert,the Temple. All things are big with jest, nothing that's plain Ib. the Temple. |