24. Where'er thou journeyest, or whate'er thy care, My heart shall follow, and my spirit share. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. 25. The finger of love, on my innermost heart, Wrote thy name, O adored! when my feelings were young; W. H. BURLEIGH. CONTEMPLATION-REFLECTION. 1. Thus ev'ry object of creation Can furnish hints for contemplation, GAY's Fables. 2. 'Tis greatly wise to talk with our past hours, 3. A soul without reflection, like a pile Without inhabitant, to ruin runs. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 4. Thanks to the human heart, by which we live, 5. WORDSWORTH. Mount on Contemplation's wings, GIFFORD'S Perseus. CONTEMPT - SCORN. It is fine To stand upon some lofty mountain thought, Within the deep, Still chambers of the heart, a spectre dim, BAILEY'S Festus. Whose tones are like the wizard voice of Time, And holy visions that have past away, On the dead waste of life. DRYDEN. 3. So much below my scorn, I dare not kill thee! He hears On all sides, from innumerable tongues, A dismal, universal hiss, the sound 4. Derision shall strike thee forlorn, MILTON'S Paradise Lost. A mock'ry that never shall die; The curses of hate, and the hisses of scorn, 5. Thou may'st from law, but not from scorn escape; BYRON. CHARLES SPRAGUE 6. 7. Pardon is for men, And not for reptiles-we have none for Steno, Of life. The man, who dies by the adder's pang, BYRON'S Marino Faliero. And would'st thou turn, Like one contemn'd, to seek for more contempt! RUFUS DAWES. CONTENTMENT-DISCONTENT. 1. O! who can lead, then, a more happy life, 2. The remnant of his days he safely past, Nor found they lagg'd too slow, nor flew too fast; 3. Still falling out with this and this, And finding something still amiss; SPENSER. PRIOR. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 4. Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite MILTON'S Comus 144 CONTENTMENT-DISCONTENT. 5. For who did ever yet, by honour, wealth, Or pleasure of the sense, Contentment find? 6 The lion crav'd the fox's art; The fox the lion's force and heart; 7. Sour discontent, that quarrels with our fate, 8. He, fairly looking into life's account, GAY's Fables. SIR R. BLACKMORE. Saw frowns and favours were of like amount; 9. With careless eyes he views the proud, CRABBE. Gentleman's Magazine. 10. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, BURNS. CONVERSATION – LOQUACITY, &c. 145 11. And passing rich, with forty pounds a year. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 12. A country-lad is my degree, And few there are that ken me, O; I'm welcome to my Nannie, O. BURNS. 13. We heeded not the cold blast, nor the winter's icy air, For we found our climate in the heart, and it was summer there. 14. The feeling of sadness and longing, That is not akin to pain, And resembles sorrow only, As the mist resembles rain. J. R. DRAKE. H. W. LONGFellow. 15. O! dear is my cottage, unclouded by sorrow, 16. "Tis said that frail, inconstant man, Is ne'er content with what he is: Each thinks he can in others scan S. RICHARDS. J. T. WATSON. CONVERSATION-LOQUACITY, &c. 1. What cracker is this same, that deafs our ears With this abundance of superfluous breath? 2. O, he's as tedious As a tir'd horse, a railing wife; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. |