Omnia vincit amor, et nos cedamus amori. 21 Act III. Sc. 1. Love conquers all things; let us yield to love. Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway VERGIL-Ecloga. X. 69. For mightier far Of magic potent over sun and star, Is love, though oft to agony distrest, And though his favourite be feeble woman's breast. WORDSWORTH-Laodamia. St. 15. Some people are so fond of ill-luck that they run half-way to meet it. DOUGLAS JERROLD-Jerrold's Wit. Meeting O Luxury! thou curst by Heaven's decree. Trouble Half-Way. GOLDSMITH-Deserted Village. L. 385. That a lie which is all a lie may be met and I give him joy that's awkward at a lie. est of lies; fought with outright YOUNG-Night Thoughts. Night VIII. L. 361. Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded. The riches of Heaven's pavement, trodden gold, MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. I. L. 678. 12 MARIA BROOKs-Written on Seeing Phara- Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, mond. 11 Sees but a backward steward for the poor. POPE-Moral Essays. Ep. III. L. 171. Non è un si bello in tante altre persone, There never was such beauty in another man. Nature made him, and then broke the mould. ARIOSTO-Orlando Furioso. Canto X. St. 84. L'on peut dire sars hyperbole, que la nature, que la après l'avoir fait en cassa la moule. ANGELO CONSTANTINI -La Vie de Scara 17 mouche. L. 107. (Ed. 1690) (See also BYRON, MONTGOMERY) Ye children of man! whose life is a span Protracted with sorrow from day to day, Naked and featherless, feeble and querulous, Sickly, calamitous creatures of clay. ARISTOPHANES - Birds. Trans. by JOHN HOOKHAM FRERE. 18 Let each man think himself an act of God. His mind a thought, his life a breath of God. BAILEY-Festus. Proem. L. 162. Mammon led them onMammon, the least erected Spirit that fell From Heaven: for even in Heaven his looks and Man is the nobler growth our realms supply 19 And souls are ripened in our northern sky. ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD-The Invitation. |