Hall.-Kotzebue.- Brydges. 431 ROBERT HALL. 1764-1831. His imperial fancy has laid all nature under tribute, and has collected riches from every scene of the creation and every walk of art. (Of Burke.) Apology for the Freedom of the Press. He might be a very clever man by nature, for aught I know, but he laid so many books upon his head that his brains could not move. (Of Kippis.) From Gregory's Life of Hall. Call things by their right names. . . . . Glass of brandy and water! That is the current, but not the appropriate name; ask for a glass of liquid fire and distilled damnation.1 Ibid. There is another and a better world. The Stranger. Act i. Sc. 1. Trans. by A. Schink, SIR SAMUEL EGERTON BRYDGES. 1762-1837. The glory dies not, and the grief is past. Sonnet on the Death of Sir Walter Scott. 1 He calls drunkenness an expression identical with ruin. Diog. Laertius, Pythagoras, vi.; and compare Cyril Tourneur, ante, p. 153. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. 1767-1848. This hand, to tyrants ever sworn the foe, For freedom only deals the deadly blow; Then sheathes in calm repose the vengeful blade, For gentle peace in freedom's hallowed shade.1 Written in an Album, 1842. ANDREW JACKSON. 1767-1845. Our Federal Union: It must be preserved. Toast given on the Jefferson Birthday Celebration in 1830. Benton's Thirty Years' View. i. 148. JOSIAH QUINCY. 1772-1864. If this bill (for the admission of Orleans territory as a State) passes, it is my deliberate opinion. that it is virtually a dissolution of the Union; that it will free the States from their moral obligation, and, as it will be the right of all, so it will be the duty of some, definitely to prepare for a separation, amicably if they can, violently if they must.2 Vol. iv. p. 327. Abridged Cong. Debates, Jan. 14, 1811. 2 The gentleman (Mr. Quincy) cannot have forgotten his own sentiment, uttered even on the floor of this House, "Peaceably if we can, forcibly if we must."Henry Clay, Speech, Jan. 8, 1813. Frere. Wellington.-Canning. 433 J. HOOKHAM FRERE. 1769 – 1846. And don't confound the language of the nation With long-tailed words in osity and ation. The Monks and the Giants. Canto. i. 6. A sudden thought strikes me, - let us swear an eternal friendship.1 The Rovers. Act i. Sc. I. DUKE OF WELLINGTON. 1769-1852. Nothing except a battle lost can be half so melancholy as a battle won. Despatch, 1815. GEORGE CANNING. 1770-1827. Story! God bless you! I have none to tell, sir. The Friend of Humanity and the Knife-Grinder. I give thee sixpence! I will see thee d―d first. Ibid. So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides The Derby dilly, carrying Three INSIDES. The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178. 1 Let us embrace, and from this very moment vow an eternal misery together. Otway, The Orphan, Act iv. Sc. 11. And finds, with keen, discriminating sight, Black's not so black ; nor white so very white. New Morality. Give me the avow'd, the erect, the manly foe, Bold I can meet,- perhaps may turn his blow; But of all plagues, good Heaven, thy wrath can send, Save, save, oh! save me from the Candid Friend! Ibid. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the old. The King's Message. (Dec. 12, 1826.) No, here's to the pilot that weathered the storm. The Pilot that weathered the Storm. SAMUEL ROGERS. 1763-1855 A guardian angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing. Human Life. Fireside happiness, to hours of ease Blest with that charm, the certainty to please. The soul of music slumbers in the shell, Ibid. Till waked and kindled by the master's spell; And feeling hearts, touch them but rightly, pour A thousand melodies unheard before! Ibid. Then, never less alone than when alone.1 Human Life. Those that he loved so long and sees no more, Loved and still loves, not dead, but gone before,2 He gathers round him. That very law which moulds a tear She was good as she was fair. Ibid. To a Tear. To know her was to love her. Jacqueline. St. 1. The good are better made by ill, As odours crushed are sweeter still.* Ibid. St. 3. 1 Numquam se minus otiosum esse, quam quum otiosus, nec minus solum, quam quum solus esset.— Cicero, De Officiis, L. iii. c. 1.; compare Gibbon, ante, p. 389. 2 In a collection of Epitaphs published by Lackington & Co. (Vol. ii. p. 143), an epitaph is given "On Mary Angell at Stepney, who died 1693," in which this line appears, "Not lost, but gone before." - Notes and Queries, 3d Ser. x. p. 404. This is literally from Seneca, Epist. 63. 16. 8 To see her is to love her. Burns, Bonny Lesley. None knew thee but to love thee. Halleck, On the Death of Drake. 4 Compare Bacon, Of Adversity; Goldsmith, The Captivity; Wordsworth's Prelude, Book ix. |