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MCCCXVI.

Nat Lee's thoughts are wonderfully suited for tragedy, out frequently lost in such a crowd of words, that it is hard to see the beauty of them. There is infinite fire in nis works, but so involved in smoke, that it does not appear in half its lustre.-Addison.

MCCCXVII.

He cannot be a perfect man,

Not being tried, and tutor'd in the world.
Experience is by industry atchieved,

And perfected by the swift course of time.

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It is dangerous for mortal beauty, or terrestrial virtue, to be examined by too strong a light. The torch of truth shews much that we cannot, and all that we would not see. In a face dimpled with smiles, it has often discovered malevolence and envy, and detected under jewels and brocade the frightful forms of poverty and distress. A fine hand of cards have changed before it into a thousand spectres of sickness, misery, and vexation; and immense sums of money, while the winner counted them with transport, have at the first glimpse of this unwelcome lustre vanished from before him.—Mulso.

MCCCXIX.

He strikes no coin, 'tis true, but coins new phrases, And vends them forth as knaves vend gilded counters, Which wise men scorn, and fools accept in payment. Old Play.

MCCCXX.

O you gods! what a number

Of men eat Timon, and he sees them not!
It grieves me, to see so many dip their meat
In one man's blood; and all the madness is,
He cheers them up, too.

wonder, men dare trust themselves with men :

Methinks they should invite them without knives;
Good for their meat, and safer for their lives.
There's much example for't; the fellow, that
Sits next him now, parts bread with him, and pledges
The breath of him in undivided draught,

Is the readiest man to kill him: It has been proved.
If I

Were a huge man, I should fear to drink at meals;
Lest they should spy my windpipe's dangerous notes :
Great men should drink with harness on their throats.
Timon of Athens-Shakspeare.
MCCCXXI.

The study of truth is perpetually joined with the love of virtue; for there's no virtue which derives not its original from truth; as, on the contrary, there is no vice which has not its beginning from a lie. Truth is the foundation of all knowledge, and the cement of all societies. Casaubon.

Our cider and perry

MCCCXXII.

May make a man mad, but not merry;
It makes people windmill-pated,
And with crackers sophisticated;
And your hops, yeast and malt,
When they're mingled together,
Makes our fancies to halt

Or reel any whither.

It stuffs up our brains with froth and with yeast,

That if one would write but a verse for a bellman, He must study till Christmas for an eight shilling jest, These liquors won't raise, but drown and o'erwhelm On Canary-Brome.

man.

MCLCXXIII.

Fear guides more to their duty than gratitude : for one

man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation which he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehensions of punishment.-Goldsmith.

MCCCXXIV.

Well the learn'd and the judicious know,
That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low,
As any one abstracted fop to show.

For, as when painters form a matchless face,

They from each fair one catch some diff'rent grace;
And shining features in one portrait blend,

To which no single beauty must pretend⚫
So poets oft do in one piece expose

Whole belles assemblees of coquets and beaux.

Epilogue to the Way of the World.- Congreve.
MCCCXXV.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! m form, and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust?-Shakspeare.

MCCCXXVI.

Give me a look, give me a face,

That makes simplicity a grace;

Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;

They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart.

Ben Jonson,

INDEX.

Activity, 3, 125, 319, 338
Actors, 330, 365, 571, 587, 663,
752, 949, 1078, 1259, 1205
Admiration, 1147

Adversity, 347, 414, 421, 1106
Advice, 76, 633, 648, 865, 970,
991

Advocate, the, 248

Adulteration, 1265
Affection, 741
Affliction, 113, 1173

Age and Youth, 402, 1101,
1198, 1262
Ambition, 41, 221, 345, 378,
401, 411, 594, 861, 873, 1242
Ancestry, 406

Anger, 10, 66, 105, 118, 171,
302, 1031

Antiquarians, 531, 677, 808

Appetite, 152

Applause, 482

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Bankrupt, 174
Bashfulness, 681
Barbers, 189

Bath, efficacy of, 359
Bear, the term, 137
Beauty, 183, 197, 241, 396, 610
611, 641, 723, 758, 810, 874,
913
Benefits, 278, 297, 301, 313
317, 382, 469, 497, 501, 558,
604

Birth-day Ode, 562
Blessings of Man, 361
Books, 32. 349, 709, 725, 755,
945, 976, 1057, 1109, 1218,
1221, 1256

Borrowing, 336, 965
Bounty, 21, 1232

Brevity, 117

Bribery, 56, 618, 675, 957

Business, 308

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Colonies, 1300

Company, 160, 165, 194, 256,

447, 630, 679, 748, 1201

Complaisance, 422

Compliments, 597

Composition, 343

Conceit, 658, 971

Confidence, 225

Conscience, 880, 1114
Constancy, 931

Content, 257, 334, 721, 780,
1122, 1126, 1204, 1239
Controversy, 305, 762, 909
Conversation, 42, 149, 404, 560,
583, 652, 664, 679, 938, 1111
Convert, 491

Conviviality, 793, 1113, 1238
Conquest, 575
Contempt, 612
Corruption, 1118

Country life, 169, 1009, 1056
Countryman, 64
Courage, 210, 375, 920
Courts, 665, 764
Courtier, the, 719

Courtship, 208, 214, 216, 289,
415, 902

Court-virtues, 201, 434, 442,
1183

Cowardice, 264, 555, 803
Cowley, the Poet, 500
Credit, 727, 749
Credibility, 483, 505

Critics, 33, 35, 62, 239, 438, 460,

607, 722, 751, 910, 967, 1007,
1129, 1151, 1174
Cruelty to Animals, 966, 1257
Cunning, 315, 1005

Curiosity, 369, 817, 878, 1659
Custom, 95, 215, 1189
Cyphers, four great, 736

Deafness, remedy for, 420

Death, 576, 1161, 1170, 1185
Debt. 367, 619

Deceit, 151, 529

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