19. The blighted prospects of an anxious life. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 20. We have cherish'd fair hopes, we have plotted brave schemes, We have liv'd till we find them illusive as dreams; 21. Farewell! my life may wear a careless smile, My words may breathe the very soul of lightness; EPES SARGENT. 22. The best enjoyment is half disappointment BAILEY'S Festus. 23. These were our hopes, but all our hopes are fled. 24. Not every flower that blossoms Diffuses sweets around; Not every scene hope gilds with light MRS. S. J. HALE. 25. But it is past-bright, transient gleam 26. As poison will sometimes cure poison, J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. DISCONTENT.-(See Contentment.) 198 DISCRETION-DISEASE, &c. DISCRETION. (See CAUTION.) DISEASE-HEALTH-PHYSICIAN, &c. 1. There never yet was a philosopher, 2. By medicines life may be prolong'd, yet death Will seize the Doctor too. SHAKSPEARE. 3. About his shelves, SHAKSPEARE. 4. A beggarly account of empty boxes, Out, ye impostors ! SHAKSPEARE. Quack-salving, cheating mountebanks-your skill 5. They are MASSINGER. Made of all terms and shreds; no less beliers Of great men's favours, than their own vile med'cines, Selling that drug for two pence, ere they part, 6. For men are brought to worse distresses, BEN JONSON. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. Wounds by the wider wounds are heal'd, And poisons by themselves expell'd. 8. All maladies, BUTLER'S Hudibras Of ghastly spasm, or racking torture, qualms 9. Th' ingredients of health and long life are Great temperance, open air, Easy labour, little care. MILTON. SIR PHILIP SIDNEY. 10. The surest road to health, say what they will, Is never to suppose we shall be ill;— Most of those evils we poor mortals know, 11. Nor love, nor honour, wealth, nor power, 12. Next Gout appears, with limping pace, A most tenacious, stubborn guest. CHURCHILL. GAY's Fables. GAY's Fables. 200 DISEASE-HEALTH - PHYSICIAN. 13. That dire disease, whose ruthless power Withers the beauty's transient flower. 14. Fever and pain, and pale, consumptive care. GOLDSMITH. GOLDSMITH. 15. The power of words, and soothing sounds, appease The raging pain, and lessen the disease. 16. And then the sigh, he would suppress, Of fainting nature's feebleness, 17. More slowly drawn, grew less and less. FRANCIS' Horace. BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. A cheek, whose bloom Was as a mockery of the tomb, BYRON'S Prisoner of Chillon. 18. Sickness sits cavern'd in his hollow eye. BYRON. 19. Oh! there is sweetness in the mountain air, BYRON'S Childe Harold. 20. This is the way physicians mend or end us, BYRON'S Don Juan. 21. Hers was a beauty that made sad the eye, Bright, but fast fading, like a twilight sky: The shape so finely, delicately frail, As form'd for climes unruffled by a gale; The lustrous eye, through which look'd forth the soul, The New Timon. 22. Along her cheek the deep'ning red Told where the fev'rish hectic fed; And yet each token gave To the mild beauty of her face, Unwarning of the grave. J. G. WHITTIER. DISHONESTY - ROGUES-THIEVES. 1. Ay, sir; to be honest, as this world goes, Is to be one pick'd out of ten thousand. 2. Thieves for their robbery have authority, When judges steal themselves. 3. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. I'll example you with thievery : SHAKSPEARE. 4. Nay, take my life and all, pardon not that; SHAKSPEARE. 5. Lands, mortgag'd, may return, and more esteem'd; But honesty once pawn'd is ne'er redeem'd. 6. The man who pauses in his honesty Wants little of the villain. MIDDLETON. MARTYN. |