444 PASSIONS-FEELING. 20. There are some feelings time cannot benumb. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 21. An empire thou couldst crush, command, rebuild, But govern not thy pettiest passion. 23. My passions were all living serpents, and Twin'd, like the gorgons, round me. BYRON'S Werner. 24. It was not strange; for in the human breast Two master passions cannot co-exist. 25. The wildest ills that darken life CAMPBELL. J. W. EASTBURNE. 26. And underneath that face, like summer's ocean's, Slumbers a whirlwind of the heart's emotions, 27. But, all in vain, to thought's tumultuous flow In broken music o'er my heart's loose chords, As thro' its silent depths their wild, swift currents roll. 28. 'Tis chainless as the mountain tide, That its resistless way doth force, J. T. WATSON. SHAKSPEARE. PEACE. 1. Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York; 2. In peace, there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility. 3. The trenchant blade, Toledo trusty, For want of fighting was grown rusty, And ate into itself, for lack Of somebody to hew and hack. SHAKSPEARE. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 4. Oh, peace! thou source and soul of social life; 5. Beneath whose calm, inspiring influence And swelling Commerce opens all her ports; Now no more the drum Provokes to arms, or trumpet's clangour shrill Uninterrupted. THOMSON. PHILIPS' Cider. 446 PEASANT-PEDIGREE - PERFECTION. 6. Oh! there were hours when thrilling joy repaid The waste, the woes, the bloodshed, and the tears, SCOTT's Lord of the Isles. 7. Peace is the bounteous goddess who bestows CUMBERLAND's Philemon. PEASANT.-(See BLACKSMITH.) PEDIGREE.-(See ANCESTRY.) PERFECTION. 1. To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, 2. Nature in her productions, slow, aspires SHAKSPEARE. SOMERVILE'S Chase. The growth of what is excellent; so hard COWPER'S Task. 4. Oh! she was perfect past all parallel. BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. I have been often dazzled by the blaze 1. I pray thee, peace; I will be flesh and blood; SHAKSPEARE. 2. There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy. 3. How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, SHAKSPEARE. MILTON'S Comus. 448 4. PHRENOLOGY. Philosophy consists not In airy schemes, or idle speculations : 5. Alas! had reason ever yet the power 6. Divine philosophy! by whose pure light THOMSON. WHITEHEAD. GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 7. Oh, who, that has ever had rapture complete, Would ask how we feel it, or why it is sweet? How rays are confus'd, or how particles fly 8. Through the medium refin'd of a glance or a sigh? Is there one, who but once would not rather have known it, Sublime Philosophy! Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven, MOORE. BULWER'S Richelieu. PHRENOLOGY. 1. For of the soul the body form doth take; For soul is form, and doth the body make. SPENSER. |