322 HERMIT-SOLITUDE, &c. 3. Retiring from the populous noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease. 4. Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife, They kept the noiseless tenor of their way. 5. How happy is the lonely vestal's lot, MILTON. GRAY'S Elegy. POPE'S Eloisa. 6. Far in a wild, unknown to public view, 7. O sacred solitude! divine retreat! Choice of the prudent! envy of the great! 8. For solitude, however some may rave, 9. Oh solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? PARNELL. YOUNG. COWPER'S Retirement. Than reign'in this horrible place! I must finish my journey alone; I start at the sound of my own. Cowper. 10. Oh, for a lodge in some vast wilderness- Where rumour of oppression and deceit 11. Unhappy he, who from the first of joys, Society, cut off, is left alone Amid this world of death. COWPER 12. THOMSON'S Seasons. To view, alone, The fairest scenes of land and deep, With none to listen, and reply To thoughts with which my heart beat high, BYRON's Bride of Abydos. 13. The lonely spider's thin gray pall Waves slowly, widening o'er the wall. BYRON'S Giaour. 14. There is a pleasure in the pathless woods; By the deep sea, and music in its roar. To mingle with the universe, and feel What I can ne'er express, yet cannot all conceal. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 15. To fly from, need not be to hate, mankind. In solitude BYRON'S Childe Harold. Small power the nipt affections have to grow. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 324 HISTORIAN-HISTORY. 17. If from society we learn to live, "T is solitude should teach us how to die. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 18. A populous solitude of bees and birds. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 19. Oh, that the desert were my dwelling-place, BYRON'S Childe Harold. 20. They dwelt in calm and silent solitude, Where meaner spirits never dare intrude. CARLOS WILCOX. 21. There have been holy men who hid themselves ... And there have been holy men, Who deem'd it were not well to pass life thus. W. C. BRYANT. HISTORIAN - HISTORY. 1. 'Tis a great fault in a chronologer To turn parasite; an absolute historian Should be in fear of none; neither should he 2. Some write a narrative of wars, and feats And paint his person, character, and views, As they had known him from his mother's womb. Lingua. COWPER'S Task. 3. And Rome shall owe, For her memorial, to your learned pen, Built with the riches of the spoiled world. 2. His words are bonds, his oaths are oracles; SHAKSPEARE. 3. Upon his brow shame is asham❜d to sit, SHAKSPEARE. 4. To be honest, as this world goes, Is to be one pick'd out of ten thousand. SHAKSPEARE. 5. Lands mortgag'd may return, and more esteem'd; But honesty, once pawn'd, is ne'er redeem'd. MIDDLETON. 6. Honour's a sacred tie-the law of kings, ADDISON'S Cato. 7. Honour and shame from no condition rise; POPE'S Essay on Man. 8. A wit's a feather, and a chief's a rod; POPE'S Essay on Man. 9. I've scann'd the actions of his daily life 10. With all the industrious malice of a foe; HANNAH MORE. Dishonour'd!-he dishonour'd! I tell thee, Doge, 't is Venice is dishonour'd; BYRON'S Two Foscari. 11. Honour and glory were given to cherish; Cherish them, then, though all else should decay; Landmarks be these, that are never to perish, Stars that will shine on the duskiest day. From the German. HONOUR. — (See HONESTY.) |