The most delicate, the most sensible of all pleasures, consists in promoting the pleasures of others. La Bruyere. ROSES OF.

The roses of pleasure seldom last long enough to adorn the brow of him who plucks them, and they are the only roses which do not retain their sweetness after they have lost their beauty. Blair. SATIETY OF.

stream

Enjoy your present pleasures so as not to The youth who bathes in pleasure's limpid injure those that are to follow. Seneca. EPOCHS OF.

At well-judged intervals, feels all his soul Nerved with recruited strength; but if too oft

He swims in sportive mazes through the
flood,

It chills his languid virtue.
NOT SATISFYING.

Mason.

He that spends all his life in sport is like one who wears nothing but fringes and eats nothing but sauces. Fuller. SLAVE OF.

The slave of pleasure soon sinks into a\ kind of voluptuous dotage; intoxicated with present delights, and careless of Dryden. everything else, his days and his nights glide away in luxury or vice, and he has

Johnson.

MAN OF. The man of pleasure should more prop-no care but to keep thought away; for erly be termed the man of pain; like thought is troublesome to him who lives Diogenes, he purchases repentance at the without his own approbation. highest price, and sells the richest rever-TRANSITORINESS OF. sion for the poorest reality. MODERATION IN.

Colton.

Though a taste of pleasure may quicken the relish of life, an unrestrained indulgence leads to inevitable destruction.

Dodsley. Pleasure must first have the warrant that it is without sin; then, the measure, that it is without excess. H. G. Adams. He who can, at all times, sacrifice pleasure to duty, approaches sublimity.

Richter.

Pleasure soon exhausts us and itself also; but endeavor never does. UNDERSTANDing of.

Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. Pope. UNLOOKED for.

Pleasure that comes unlooked for is thrice welcome. Rogers. VAIN. Why, all delights are vain; but that most vain,

Which, with pain purchas'd, doth inherit pain. Shakespeare.

MODERATION IN.

POETRY. Put only the restriction on your pleasures CHARACTERISTICS OF. -be cautious that they hurt no creature Zimmerman. that has life. Pleasures waste the spirits more than pains; therefore the latter can be endured longer, and in greater degree, than the Ibid. Venture not to the utmost bounds of even

Poetry is in itself strength and joy, whether it be crowned by all mankind, or left alone in its own magic hermitage.

former.

DEFINITIONS OF.

Sterling.

It is the natural language of excited feeling; and a work of imagination wrought lawful pleasure; the limits of good and evil into form by art. Frederick W. Robertson. Poetry is the eloquence of truth.

join.

PAUCITY.

Fuller.

It is sad

PLOTTERS.

EMOTIONS of.

Campbell.

There are so many tender and holy emotions flying about in our inward world, which, like angels, can never assume the body of an outward act; so many rich and lovely flowers spring up which bear no seed, that it is a happiness poetry was invented, which receives into its limbus all these in

Those who plot the destruction of others, corporeal spirits, and the perfume of all very often fall themselves the victims.

FATE OF A.

POEM.

Phaedrus.

A poem's life and death dependeth still
Not on the poet's wits, but reader's will.
Alexander Brome.

these flowers.

FROM GOD.

Jean Paul.

Poetry is itself a thing of God;
He made his prophets poets, and the mor●
We feel of poesie do we become
Like God in love and power.

Bailey

MIGHT OF.

OBJECTS OF.

POESY.

A drainless shower

Of light is poesy, 'tis the supreme of power Poesy serveth and conferreth to magna-Tis might half slumbering on its own right nimity, morality and to declaration.

Brings colours dipp'd in heaven, that refined as to satisfy the judgment; it should never die ;

There is no policy like politeness; ana a good manner is the best thing in the world, either to get one a good name or to supply

the want of it. SOURCE OF.

Bulwer Lytton.

RULING SPIRIT OF.

Who's in or out, who moves the grand
machine,

Nor stirs my curiosity, or spleen;
Secrets of state no more I wish to know
Than secret movements of a puppet-show;
Let but the puppets move, I've my desire,
Unseen the hand which guides the master
wire.
Churchill.

POPULARITY.
CHANGEABLENESS OF.

O breath of public praise, Short-liv'd and vain! oft gain'd without desert,

As often lost, unmerited; composed
But of extremes: Thou first beginn'st with
love

Enthusiastic, madness of affection; then
(Bounding o'er moderation and o'er reason)
Thou turn'st to hate, as causeless and as
fierce.
Havard.

I have no taste

of popular applause: The noisy praise
of giddy crowds as changeable as winds;

Still vehement, and still without a cause:
Of swoln success; but veering with the ebb,
Servants to chance, and blowing in the tide
It leaves the channel dry.
Dryden.
COURTING OF.

He who can listen pleas'd to such applause,
Buys at a dearer rate than I dare purchase,
And pays for idle air with sense and virtue.
Mallett
SEDUCTIVE Influence of.

Oh, popular applause, what heart of man
The wisest and the best feel urgent need
Is proof against thy sweet seducing charms?
Of all their caution in thy gentlest gales;
But swelled into a dust-who then, alas!
With all his canvas set, and inexpert,
And therefore heedless, can withstand thy
power.
Cowper.

Please not thyself the flattering crowd to Wealth whets the wit, 'tis true; but wit not hear;

'Tis fulsome stuff, to please thy itching With fortune's aid makes beggars at the best;

Survey thy soul, not what thou dost ap-Wit is hot fed, but sharpened with applause; For wealth is solid food, but wit is hungry pear, Dryden.

To wish their vile remembrance may re-into despair. main,

And stand recorded at their own request,