7. Rogues as they were, themselves they would not rob— They, 'mongst themselves, were honourable thieves! DISPLEASURE. 1. If she do frown, 't is not in hate of youBut rather to beget more love in you. If she do chide, 't is not to have you gone. SHAKSPEARE. 2. O! why rebuke you him, who loves you so? Lay breath so bitter on your bitter foe. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Go, speak not to me; even now begone! SHAKSPEARE. 4. No cloud Of anger 5. shall remain, but peace assur'd, And reconcilement. Do not blast my springing hopes, 6. "Tis then the mind, from bondage free, And all its former weakness o'er, Asserts its native dignity, And scorns what folly priz'd before. 7. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. MILTON. RowE. CARTWRIGHT. COLERIDGE's Christabel, 8. O, where are the bright-beaming glances I miss! DISPOSITION - DISSENSION – DISTANCE. 203 9. Farewell! the tie is broken-thou, With all thou wert to me, hast parted! 10. Cast my heart's gold into the furnace flame, N. P. WILLIS. MRS. L. H. SIGOURNEY. DISPOSITION.-(See CHARACTER.) DISSENSION. 1. Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension, between hearts that love! MOORE. 2. A something light as air-a look— A word unkind, or wrongly taken Oh! love, that tempest never shook, A breath, a touch like this, hath shaken. 1. "Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, And clothes the mountain in its azure hue. 204 DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. 2. If earth's whole orb, by some due distanc'd eye, Were seen at once, her tow'ring Alps would sink, And levell'd Atlas leave an even sphere. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 1. DOMESTIC AFFAIRS-HOME. Home is the resort Of love, of joy, of peace, and plenty, where, THOMSON'S Seasons. 2. Domestic happiness! thou only bliss COWPER'S Task. 3. His warm but simple home, where he enjoys, With her who shares his pleasure and his heart, Sweet converse. 4. Man, through all ages of revolving time, COWPER'S Task. Unchanging man, in every varying clime, 5. Around, in sympathetic mirth, Its tricks the kitten tries, J. MONTGOMERY. GOLDSMITH. 6. With secret course which no loud storms annoy, Glides the smooth current of domestic joy. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 7. Thou spot of earth, where from my bosom WALKER-From the Danish. 8. 'Tis sweet to hear the watch-dog's honest bark BYRON'S Don Juan. 9. He enter'd in his house-his home no more, Without a welcome. BYRON'S Don Juan. 10. The parted bosom clings to wonted home, If aught, that's kindred, cheer the welcome hearth. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 11. I've wander'd on thro' many a clime where flowers of beauty grew, Where all was blissful to the heart and lovely to the view- morn, But none appear'd so sweet to me as the spot where I was born. 12. 'Mid pleasures and palaces tho' we may roam, J. H. PAYNE. 206 DOUBT - DRAMA – DREAMS - SLEEP. childhood, 13. How dear to this heart are the scenes of my 14. A neat little cottage in front of a grove, Where in youth they first gave their young hearts up 15. And oh, the atmosphere of home! how bright to love, PARK BENJAMIN. 16. Who, that in distant lands has chanc'd to roam, Ne'er thrill'd with pleasure at the name of home? DOUBT. (See CREDULITY.) J. T. WATSON. DRAMA. (See ACTORS.) DREAMS-SLEEP. 1. If I may trust the flatt'ring eye of sleep, SHAKSPEARE. 2. Dreams are but children of an idle brain, Begot of nothing but vain fantasy. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Thus have I had thee, as a dream will flatter, In sleep a king, but, waking, no such matter. SHAKSPEARE. |