102 CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY - SLANDER, &c. 7. So a wild Tartar, when he spies A man that's valiant, handsome, wise, BUTLER'S Hudibras. 8. Envy's a sharper spur than pay, GAY's Fables. 9. Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise, For envy is a kind of praise. GAY's Fables. 10. Who praises Lesbia's eyes and features, 11. Canst thou discern another's mind? What is 't you envy? Envy's blind. GAY'S Fables. GAY's Fables. 12. Slander'd in vain, enjoy the spleen of foes; 13. Envy will merit, as its shade, pursue; AARON HILL. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 14. Base envy withers at another's joy, THOMSON'S Seasons. CALUMNY - DETRACTION - ENVY-SLANDER, &c. 15. With that malignant envy, which grows pale And sickens, even if a friend prevail, And damns the worth it cannot imitate. 16. For every thing contains within itself 103 CHURCHILL. The seeds and sources of its own corruption; But Envy, of all evil things the worst, 17. Yet even her tyranny had such a grace, 18. 19. Curse the tongue BYRON'S Don Juan. Whence slanderous rumour, like the adder's drop, The ignoble mind Loves ever to assail with secret blow 20. As a base pack of yelping hounds, HILLHOUSE. W. G. SIMMS. J. T. WATSON. 104 CANDOUR-CARE, &c. CANDOUR. (See ARTIFICE.) CARE-MELANCHOLY - GLOOM. 1. Why should a man, whose blood is warm within, Sit like his grandsire, cut in alabaster ? 2. Care that is enter'd once into the breast, Will have the whole possession, ere it rest. 3. SHAKSPEARE. BEN JONSON. That spoils the dance of youthful blood, BLAIR'S Grave. 4. The spleen with sudden vapour clouds the brain, 5. But human bodies are sic fools, For a' their colleges and schools, 6. If thou wilt think of moments gone, BLACKMORE. BURNS. From the Spanish-BowRING. 7. Go, you may call it madness-follyYou shall not chase my gloom away; There's such a charm in melancholy, I would not, if I could, be gay! ROGERS. Sits on me as a cloud along the sky, Which will not let the sunbeams through, nor yet 9. And if I laugh at any mortal thing, 'Tis that I may not weep; and if I weep, "T is that our nature cannot always bring Itself to apathy, which we must steep First in the icy depths of Lethe's spring, Ere what we least wish to behold will sleep. BYRON. BYRON'S Don Juan 10. But can the noble mind for ever brood, CAMPBELL. 11. "T was thus in Nature's bloom and solitude, 12. Come, rouse thee, dearest: 't is not well Thus darkly o'er the cares that swell As brooks and torrents, rivers, all CARLOS WILCOX. MRS. DINNIES. 106 CARE - MELANCHOLY - GLOOM. 13. Blame not, if oft, in melancholy mood, This theme too far such fancy hath pursued; And if the soul, which high with hope should beat, 14. Oh! it is hard to put the heart Alone and desolate away To curl the lip in pride, and part 15. Strange that the love-lorn heart will beat With rapture wide amid its folly ;— No grief so soft, no pain so sweet As love's delicious melancholy. ROBERT SANDS. N. P. WILLIS. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 16. O! dark is the gloom o'er my young spirit stealing! Then why should I linger when others are gay?— The smile that I wear, is but worn for concealing A heart, that is wasting in sadness away. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 17. Alas, for my weary and care-haunted bosom ! 18. How vain a task, to wake my lyre MRS. OSGOOD. 19. Pale Care now sits enthron'd upon that cheek, Where rosy Health did erst her empire hold. J. T. WATSON. |