e. MILTON-Samson Agonistes. L. 80. O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! f. MILTON-Sonnet XXII. L. 1. Bliss in possession will not last; Condition, circumstance, is not the thing; POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 57. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. POPE-Essay on Man. Ep. IV. L. 21. u. The way to bliss lies not on beds of down, And he that had no cross deserves no crown. QUARLES-Esther. υ. I know I am-that simplest bliss I know the fortune to be born, w. Health is the vital principle of bliss, And exercise of health. THOMSON-The Castle of Indolence. Canto II. St. 55. Has clothed a lovely maid with blushes; A smile within his eyelids plays And into words his longing gushes. e. WM. R. ALGER-Oriental Poetry. Love Sowing and Reaping Roses. Girls blush, sometimes, because they are alive, Half wishing they were dead to save the shame. The sudden blush devours them, neck and brow; They have drawn too near the fire of life, like gnats, And flare up bodily, wings and all. f. E. B. BROWNING-Aurora Leigh. Bk. II. L. 732. Blushed like the waves of hell. St. 12. And bid the cheek be ready with a blush Modest as morning when she coldly eyes The youthful Phoebus. t. Troilus and Cressida. Act I. Sc. 3. By noting of the lady I have mark'd A thousand blushing apparitions To start into her face, a thousand innocent shames. In angel whiteness beat away those blushes. u. And as for me, though than I konne but lyte, It is saying less than the truth to affirm that an excellent book (and the remark holds almost equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well-chosen and well-tended fruit tree. Its fruits are not of one season only. With the due and natural intervals, we may recur to it year after year, and it will supply the same nourishment and the same gratification, if only we ourselves return to it with the same healthful appetite. d. COLERIDGE-Literary Remains. Prospectus of Lectures. We prize books, and they prize them most who are themselves wise. 0. EMERSON-Letters and Social Aims. Quotation and Originality. Learning hath gained most by those books by which the Printers have lost. p. FULLER-The Holy and the Profane Some Books are onely cursorily to be tasted Bk. II. Canto V. of. q. FULLER-The Holy and the Profane State. Of Books. (Ed. 1891). Ch. XXII. |