From harmony, from heavenly harmony, From harmony to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, A Song for St. Cecilia's Day. Line 11. Happy the man, and happy he alone, Not heaven itself upon the past has power; I can enjoy her while she 's kind; Arms and the man I sing, who, forced by fate Virgil. Eneid, 1. Ill habits gather by unseen degrees, Ovid. Metamorphoses. Book xv. Line 155. She knows her man, and when you rant and swear, Persius. Satire v. Line 246. 1 Cf. Pope, The Rape of the Lock, Canto ii. Line 27. Look round the habitable world, how few Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue ! Juvenal. Satire x. Thespis, the first professor of our art, At country wakes sung ballads from a cart. Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba. Errors like straws upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls must dive below. All for Love. Prologue. Men are but children of a larger growth. Ibid. Activ. Sc. 1. your devotion Your ignorance is the mother of to me. The Maiden Queen. Act i. Sc. 2. But Shakespeare's magic could not copied be; Within that circle none durst walk but he. The Tempest. Prologue. I am as free as nature first made man, The Conquest of Granada. Part i. Act i. Sc. I. Forgiveness to the injured does belong; Ibid. Part ii. Act i. Sc. 2. What precious drops are those, Which silently each other's track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their infant dew? Ibid. Part ii. Act iii. Sc. 1. 1 Quos læserunt et oderunt. cap. xxxiii. Seneca, De Ira, Lib. ii. Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris. Tacitus, Agricola, 42, 4. The offender never pardons. — Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. When I consider life, 't is all a cheat. Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit ; Lies worse; and while it says, "We shall be blest Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain ; Aureng-zebe. Act iv. Sc. 1. All delays are dangerous in war.1 Tyrannic Love. Acti. Sc. 1. Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. As in a green Ibid. Activ. Sc. 1. His hair just grizzled old age. Edipus. Act iii. Sc. I. Of no distemper, of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long; Ibid. Activ. Sc. I. 1 Delays have dangerous ends. - Shakespeare, King Henry VI. Part i. Act iii. Sc. 2. [Dryden continued. She, though in full-blown flower of glorious beauty, Grows cold, even in the summer of her age. Edipus. Activ. Sc. 1. There is a pleasure sure In being mad which none but madmen know.1 The Spanish Friar. Act ii. Sc. I. This is the porcelain clay of humankind.2 Don Sebastian. Acti. Sc. I. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, A knock-down argument: t'is but a word and a blow. The true Amphitryon. Ibid. Act iv. Sc. 1. The spectacles of books. Essay on Dramatic Poetry. STEPHEN HARVEY. And there's a lust in man no charm can tame 1 Cf. Cowper, p. 361. Juvenal. Satire ix.1 2 Cf. Byron, Don Juan, Canto iv. St. 11. 8 Cf. Gray, p. 331. 4 From Anderson's British Poets, Vol. xii. p. 697. JOHN BUNYAN. 1628-1688. And so I penned It down, until at last it came to be, For length and breadth, the bigness which you Apology for His Book. see. Some said, "John, print it," others said, "Not so," Some said, "It might do good," others said, "No." The name of the slough was Despond. Pilgrim's Progress. Ibid. Part i. It beareth the name of Vanity Fair, because the town where 't is kept is lighter than vanity. Ibid. Part I. Some things are of that nature as to make He that is down needs fear no fall.1 Ibid. Part ii. RICHARD BAXTER. 1615 – 1691. I preached as never sure to preach again, Love breathing Thanks and Praise. 1 He that is down can fall no lower. Butler, Hudibras, Part i. Canto iii. Line 877. |