1. What peremptory, eagle-sighted eye Dares look upon the heaven of her brow, That is not blinded by her majesty? 2. To splendour only do we live? Must pomp alone our thoughts employ? Is dearly bought with love and joy. SHAKSPEARE. CARTWRIGHT. 3. Can wealth give happiness? look round and see, What gay distress! what splendid misery! I envy none their pageantry and show, I envy none the gilding of their woe. YOUNG. STATESMAN. 1. A statesman, that can side with every faction, 2. Forbear, you things That stand upon the pinnacles of state, To boast your slippery height; when you do fall, SHIRLEY. BEN JONSON. 3. Thus the court wheel goes round, like fortune's ball; One statesman rising on another's fall. 4. With grave Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd A pillar of state: deep on his front engraven R. BROME. 1. Had I miscarried, I had been a villain; HIGGONS. 2. 'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius- we 'll deserve it. 3. It is success that colours all in life; 4. Success makes fools admir'd, makes villains honest. Applause Waits on success; the fickle multitude, Like the light straw that floats along the stream, THOMSON. FRANKLIN. 5. But who shall tax successful villany, Or call the rising traitor to account? 1. SUICIDE. The dread of something after death, That undiscover'd country, from whose bourn Than fly to others, that we know not of. HAVARD. SHAKSPEARE. 2. Oh! that this too, too solid flesh would melt, 3. Thaw, and dissolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not set His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! To run away SHAKSPEARE. From this world's ills, that, at the very worst, BLAIR's Grave. 4. Fear, guilt, despair, and moon-struck frenzy, rush When the fierce storms of fortune round 'em roar, 5. To cut his throat a brave man scorns; FENTON. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. He with delirious laugh the dagger hurl'd, 7. CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. I mean not That poor-soul'd piece of heroism, self-slaughter; There's many a better thing to do than die! G. DARLEY. 2. Shame on those breasts of stone, that cannot melt In soft adoption of another's sorrow! AARON HILL. 3. Oh! ask not, hope thou not too much Of sympathy below: Few are the hearts whence one same touch Bids the sweet fountain flow. MRS. HEMANS. 4. There's nought in this bad world like sympathy; 'Tis so becoming to the soul and face Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. BYRON'S Don Juan. 5. I know thee not-and yet our spirits seem MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. 6. I know thee not—I never heard thy voice; Yet, could I choose a friend from all mankind, |