Methinks her patient sons before me stand, ITALY. Italia! O Italia! thou who hast O. GOLDSMITH. The fatal gift of beauty, which became A funeral dower of present woes and past, On thy sweet brow is sorrow ploughed by shame, And annals graved in characters of flame. Childe Harold, Canto IV. Italy, my Italy! LORD BYRON. Queen Mary's saying serves for me Lost her Calais): Open my heart, and you will see De Gustibus. COURAGE. R. BROWNING. Courage, the highest gift, that scorns to bend To mean devices for a sordid end. Courage-an independent spark from Heaven's bright throne, By which the soul stands raised, triumphant, high, alone. Great in itself, not praises of the crowd, Above all vice, it stoops not to be proud. Courage, the mighty attribute of powers above, By which those great in war, are great in love. The spring of all brave acts is seated here, As falsehoods draw their sordid birth from fear. G. FARQUHAR. Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety. King Henry IV., Pt. I. Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Write on your doors the saying wise and old, "Be bold! be bold!" and everywhere-"Be bold; Be not too bold!" Yet better the excess Than the defect; better the more than less; Better like Hector in the field to die, Than like a perfumed Paris turn and fly. Morituri Salutamus. H. W. LONGFELLOW. MACBETH. If we should fail, LADY MACBETH. We fail! But screw your courage to the sticking place, And we 'll not fail. Macbeth, Act i. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE. What man dare, I dare. Macbeth, Act iii. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE. "Brave boys," he said, "be not dismayed, For God will be our king this day, From the Battle of the Boyne. Old Ballad. By how much unexpected, by so much King John, Act ii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. Blow, wind! come, wrack! Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE. Danger knows full well That Cæsar is more dangerous than he. Julius Cæsar, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. No common object to your sight displays, What bosom beats not in his country's cause? A. POPE. Dar'st thou, Cassius, now Leap in with me into this angry flood, And bade him follow. Julius Cæsar, Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. "You fool! I tell you no one means you harm.” "So much the better," Juan said, "for them." Don Juan. The intent and not the deed LORD BYRON. Is in our power; and therefore who dares greatly J. BROWN. False Wizard, avaunt! I have marshalled my clan, COURTESY. T. CAMPBELL. How sweet and gracious, even in common speech, J. T. FIELDS. In thy discourse, if thou desire to please; All such is courteous, useful, new, or wittie : Usefulness comes by labor, wit by ease; Courtesie grows in court; news in the citie. The Church Porch. I am the very pink of courtesy. Romeo and Juliet, Act ii. Sc. 4. G. HERBERT. SHAKESPEARE. The kindest man, The best-conditioned and unwearied spirit Merchant of Venice, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. Would you both please and be instructed too, B. STILLINGFLEET. What is danger COWARDICE. More than the weakness of our apprehensions? BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Alike reserved to blame, or to commend, Cowards are cruel, but the brave Fables, Pt. I. Fable Ï. When desp'rate ills demand a speedy cure, Distrust is cowardice, and prudence folly. Irene, Act iv. Sc. 1. A. POPE. J. GAY. DR. S. JOHNSON. He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it, Maid of Honor, Act iv. Sc. 1. Thou slave, thou wretch, thou coward! P. MASSINGER. Thou ever strong upon the stronger side! Thou Fortune's champion, that dost never fight To teach thee safety! King John, Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE. For he who fights and runs away The Art of Poetry on a New Plan. O. GOLDSMITH. Cowards die many times before their deaths; But Faith, fanatic Faith, once wedded fast For fools are stubborn in their way, You can and you can't, Chain (Definition of Calvinism). S. BUTLER. L. DOW. may call They believed-faith, I 'm puzzled-I think I A Fable for Critics. J. R. LOWELL. We are our own fates. Our own deeds Are our doomsmen. Man's life was made But men's actions. Lucile, Pt. II. Canto V. LORD LYTTON (Owen Meredith). Go put your creed into your deed, Nor speak with double tongue. Ode: Concord, July 4, 1857. CRIME. R. W. EMERSON. There is a method in man's wickedness, It grows up by degrees. A King and no King, Act v. Sc. 4. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Foul deeds will rise, SHAKESPEARE. Though all the earth o'erwhelm them, to men's eyes. Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 2. Tremble, thou wretch, That has within thee undivulged crimes, King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE. But many a crime deemed innocent on earth Is registered in Heaven; and these no doubt Have each their record, with a curse annexed. The Task, Bk. VI. W. COWPER. |