LIFE IS AT BEST-Life's best BALM.

145

"Life is at best but a froward child, which must be coaxed and played with until the end comes.

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SIR WILLIAM TEMPLE. Essay on Poetry.

"Life at the greatest and best is but a froward child, that
must be humoured and coaxed a little till it falls
asleep, and then all the care is over."

GOLDSMITH. The Good-Natured Man (Croaker),
Act I., Sc. I.

Life is not dated merely by years. Events are sometimes the best
LORD BEACONSFIELD. Venetia, Bk. II., Ch. I.

calendars."

Life is not so short but that there is always time for courtesy."

"Life is real! Life is earnest!

And the grave is not its goal; Dust thou art, to dust returnest, Was not spoken of the soul."

EMERSON.

Social Aims.

LONGFELLOW. A Psalm of Life.

"Life is too short for any distant aim;
And cold the dull reward of future fame."
LADY M. WORTLEY MONTAGU.

"Life is too short for mean anxieties."

Epistle to the Earl of Burlington.

C. KINGSLEY. The Saint's Tragedy (Elizabeth),
Act II., Sc. IX.

"Life is war;

Eternal war with woe: who bears it best,
Deserves it least."
"Life makes the soul dependent on the dust;
Death gives her wings to mount above the spheres."

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night II.,

line 9.

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night III., line 458.

“Life may change, but it may fly not ;
Hope may vanish, but can die not;
Truth be veiled, but still it burneth;
Love repulsed,—but it returneth!

"Life of Life! thy lips enkindle

SHELLEY. Hellas (Semichorus), I.

With their love the breath between them;

And thy smiles before they dwindle

Make the cold air fire."

SHELLEY. Prometheus Unbound (Voice), Act II., Sc. V.

"Life's a jest, and all things show it;

I thought so once, and now I know it."

GAY. Epitaph on Himself.

"Life's a long tragedy; this globe the stage."

"Life's best balm-forgetfulness!"

WATTS. Epistle to Mitis, Pt. I., 1.

F. HEMANS. The Caravan in the Desert.
ΤΟ

146 LIFE'S BUT A WALKING SHADOW-LIKE ECHO.

"Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: it is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing."

SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act V.,

Sc. V.

"Life's little stage is a small eminence, Inch-high the grave above."

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night II., line 360.

"Life treads on life, and heart on heart, We press too close in church and mart To keep a dream or grave apart."

E. B. BROWNING. A Vision of Poets, Conclusion.

"Life! what art thou without love?"

E. MOORE.

"Life without love is load; and time stands still: What we refuse to him, to death we give; And then, then only, when we love, we live."

Fable XIV.

CONGREVE. The Mourning Bride (Manuel), Act II., Sc. X.

"Lift not the festal mask!-enough to know,
No scene of mortal life but teems with mortal woe."

"Light fantastic toe."

"Light gain makes a heavy purse."

I.

SIR W. SCOTT. Lord of the Isles, Can. II.,
MILTON. L'Allegro.

OLD PROVERB.

"The proverb is true, that light gains make heavy purses; for light gains come often, great gains now and then." BACON.

"Lightly was her slender nose

Tip-tilted like the petal of a flower."

TENNYSON. Gareth and Lynette.

"Like a late moon, of use to nobody."

R. BROWNING. Luria (Luria), Act I.

"Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality's too weak to bear them long.'

REV. J. NORRIS OF BEMERTON. The Parting, St. 4. "Visits

Like those of angels, short and far between."

BLAIR. The Grave, line 588.

"Like angels' visits, few and far between."
CAMPBELL. The Pleasures of Hope, II.

"Like another Helen, fir'd another Troy."

DRYDEN. Alexander's Feast, VI.

"Like Dian's kiss, unasked, unsought,
Love gives itself, but is not bought."
"Like Echo, lost and languishing,
In love with her own wondrous song."

LONGFELLOW. Endymion.

T. MOORE. Lalla Rookh, IX.

"Such master, such man, and such mistress, such maid,

Such husband and huswife, such houses arraid." TUSSER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry, April's Husbandry, 22.

"Such mistress, such Nan,

Such master, such man."

IBID. April's Abstract, 22.

"Like moonlight on a troubled sea,

Brightening the storm it cannot calm."

T. MOORE. The Loves of the Angels, 2nd Angel's Story.

"Like Patience on a monument, smiling at grief."

SHAKESPEARE. Twelfth Night (Viola), Act II., Sc. IV.

"Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Ophelia), Act III., Sc. I

"Like truths of science waiting to be caught."

"Like will to like."

TENNYSON. The Golden Year.
J. HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. IV.

"Is it not a byword, lyke will to lyke?" LYLY. Euphues.
"Like will to like; each creature loves his kind,
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind."
HERRICK. Hesperides, 293.

"Like will to like."

SIR W. SCOTT. Peveril of the Peak, Ch. XIV.
MILTON. L'Allegro.

"Linked sweetness long drawn out."
"Linked with one virtue, and a thousand crimes."

BYRON. The Corsair, Can. III., XXIV.

TENNYSON. Gareth and Lynette.

"Lion and stoat have isled together, knave,
In time of flood."
"Literature is a very bad crutch, but a very good walking-stick."

C. LAMB. Letter to Bernard Barton.

"Little children are still the symbol of the eternal marriage between love and duty." GEORGE ELIOT. Romola, Proem.

"Little minds are tamed and subdued by misfortune; but great minds rise above it."

"Live with a thrifty, not a needy fate;

Small shots paid often waste a vast estate."

"Lives of great men all remind us

We can make our own sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sands of time."

WASHINGTON IRVING.

HERRICK. Hesperides, 28.

LONGFELLOW. A Psalm of Life.

148

LIVES THE MAN-LOOK ERE.

"Lives the man that can figure a naked Duke of Windlestraw addressing a naked House of Lords?"

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CARLYLE. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. IX.

"Lives there who loves his pain?

Who would not, finding way, break loose from hell,
Though thither doom'd?"

MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 888.

'Live while you live, the epicure would say,

And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my view let both united be;

I live in pleasure when I live to Thee."

P. DODDERIDGE. Epigram on his Family Motto." "Dum vivimus vivamus."

"Loathsome canker lies in sweetest bud."

SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet, XXXV.

"Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.'

HUXLEY. Science and Culture. Animal Automatism. "(You are now

In) London, that great sea, whose ebb and flow At once is deaf and loud, and on the shore -Vomits its wrecks, and still howls on for more.'

"Look ere you leape, see ere you go,

It may be for thy profit so."

TUSSER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry,·
Ch. LVII.

"For he that leaps, before he look, good son,

May leap in the mire, and miss what he hath done." UNKNOWN. The Marriage of True Wit and Science (Wit), Act IV., Sc. I.

"Look before you ere you leap;

For as you sow y' are like to reap."

BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. II., Can. III., line 503.

LOOK, HOW the floor-Love betters.

"Look, how the floor of heaven

Is thick inlay'd with patines of bright gold;

There's not the smallest orb, which thou behold'st,
But in his motion like an angel sings,

Still quiring to the young-ey'd cherubims.

Such harmony is in immortal souls;

But, while this muddy vesture of decay

Doth grossly close it in, we cannot hear it."

SHAKESPEARE. The Merchant of Venice (Lorenzo),

"Look how we can, or sad, or merrily,

Interpretation will misquote our looks."

Act V., Sc. I.

SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Worcester),
Act V., Sc. II.

"Lookers on, many times, see more than the gamesters."

BACON. Essay XLVIII. Of Followers and Friends.
"There is a true saying, that the spectator oft-times sees
more than the gamester."

HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. II., Letter
XV. To Capt. B.

“Lord of himself;-that heritage of woe, That fearful empire which the human breast But holds to rob the heart within of rest!"

"Lord of himself, though not of lands, And having nothing, yet hath all." SIR HENRY WOTTON.

"Love all, trust a few,

BYRON. Lara, Can. I., II.

The Character of a Happy Life.

Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy
Rather in power, than use; and keep thy friend
Under thy own life's key: be check'd for silence,
But never tax'd for speech."

SHAKESPEARE. All's Well that Ends Well (Countess),

Act I., Sc. I.

"Love always makes those eloquent that have it."

MARLOWE. Hero and Leander, Sestiad II.

"Love and a red nose can't be hid."

TH. HOLCROFT. Duplicity (Squire Turnbull), Act II.,

"Love and high rule allow no rivals."

Sc. I.

FLETCHER. Monsieur Thomas (Alice), Act I., Sc. I.

"Love and scandal are the best sweeteners of tea."

FIELDING. Love in Several Masques, Act IV., Sc. II. "Her tea she sweetens, as she sips, with scandal."

ROGERS. Written to be spoken by Mrs. Siddons. "Love betters what is best

Even here below, but more in heaven above."

WORDSWORTH. Sonnets, Pt. I., XXV.