Country Life. Thomson. THRICE happy he! who on the sunless side Amid a jarring world with vice inflam'd. Country Life. — Peter Pindar. THERE Health, so wild and gay, with bosom bare, Country Life. HERE too dwells simple Truth; plain Innocence; Unsullied Beauty; sound unbroken Youth, Patient of labour, with a little pleas'd; Health ever blooming; unambitious Toil: Он Country Life. Thomson. H knew he but his happiness, of men The happiest he! who far from public rage, Deep in the Vale, with a choice few retired, Drinks the pure pleasures of the Rural Life. Country Life. -- Thomson. PERHAPS thy loved Lucinda shares thy Walk, With soul to thine attuned. Then Nature all Wears to the lover's eye a look of love; I DO not think a Braver Gentleman, More active valiant, or more valiant-young, Courage. Byron. A REAL Spirit Should neither court neglect, nor dread to bear it. Courage. — Ben Jonson. A VALIANT Man Ought not to undergo or tempt a danger, Courage. — Joanna Baillie. THE Brave Man is not he who feels no fear, But he, whose noble Soul its Fear subdues, Let thy mother rather feel thy Pride, than fear Thy Valiantness was mine, thou suck'dst it from me; Courage. Colton. PHYSICAL Courage, which despises all danger, will make a man brave in one way; and Moral Courage, which despises all opinion, will make a man brave in another. The former would seem most necessary for the camp, the latter for council; but to constitute a great man, both are necessary. Courage. — Shaftesbury. TRUE Courage is cool and calm. The bravest of men have the least of a brutal bullying insolence; and in the very time of danger are found the most serene and free. Rage, we know, can make a coward forget himself and fight. But what is done in fury or anger can never be placed to the account of Courage. Courage. — Dryden. AN intrepid Courage is at best but a holiday-kind of virtue, to be seldom exercised, and never but in cases of necessity: affability, mildness, tenderness, and a word which I would fain bring back to its original signification of virtue, I mean good-nature, are of daily use; they are the bread of mankind, and staff of life. MOST Courage. Greville. men have more Courage than even they themselves think they have. Courage. Shakspeare. He bore him in the thickest troop, As doth a Lion in a herd of Neat : Or as a Bear, encompass'd round with Dogs ; Courage. Shakspeare. He stopp'd the fliers; And, by his rare example, made the coward And fell below his stem. The Court. La Bruyere. THE Court does not render a man contented, but it prevents his being so elsewhere. The Court.-Burke. IT is of great importance (provided the thing is not over done) to contrive such an establishment as must, almost whether a Prince will or not, bring into daily and hourly offices about his person, a great number of his first Nobility; and it is rather an useful prejudice that gives them pride in such a servitude. Though they are not much the better for a Court, a Court will be much the better for them. Court Jealousy. — Shakspeare. No simple man that sees This jarring Discord of Nobility, This should'ring of each other in the Court, 'Tis much, when sceptres are in children's hands; Courtesy. — Shakspeare. Dissembling Courtesy! how fine this tyrant The Courtier. - Dryden. SEE how he sets his Countenance for Deceit, Courtship. — Shakspeare. WIN her with Gifts, if she respect not Words; More quick than Words, do move a Woman's Mind. Courtship. — Shakspeare. THOU hast by moon-light at her window sung, Courtship. — Shakspeare. SAY, that she rail; Why, then I'll tell her plain, And say she uttereth piercing eloquence. OH, then the longest summer's day Seem'd too, too much in haste: still the full Heart Had not imparted half: 'twas Happiness Too exquisite to last. Of joys departed, Not to return, how painful the remembrance! WITH Women worth the being won, Courtship.— Thomson. COME then, ye virgins and ye youths, whose Hearts And thou, Amanda, come, pride of my song! Come with those downcast eyes, sedate and sweet, Courtship. Shakspeare. SAY, that upon the altar of her Beauty You sacrifice your Tears, your Sighs, your Heart: Courtship. Shakspeare. WOMEN are angels wooing: Things won are done, joy's soul lies in the doing: Courtship. Shakspeare. WHY should you think that I should woo in scorn? Scorn and derision never come in tears? Covetousness. South. THE Covetous Person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world; to take in every thing, and part with nothing. Covetousness. — Colton. AFTER Hypocrites, the greatest dupes the Devil has are those who exhaust an anxious existence in the Disappointments and Vexations of Business, and live miserably and meanly only to die magnificently and rich. For, like the Hypocrites, the only disinterested action these men can accuse themselves of is, that of serving the Devil, without receiving his wages: he that stands every day of his life behind a counter, until he drops from it into the grave, may negotiate many very profitable bargains; but he has made a single bad one, so bad indeed, that it counterbalances all the rest; for the empty foolery of dying rich, he has paid down his health, his happiness, and his integrity. Covetousness. — Burton. COVETOUS men are fools, miserable wretches, buzzards, madmen, who live by themselves, in perpetual slavery, fear, suspicion, sorrow, discontent, with more of gall than honey in their enjoyments; who are rather possessed by their Money than Possessors of it; mancipati pecuniis, bound 'prentices to their property; and, servi divitiarum, mean slaves and drudges to their Substance. Covetousness. — F. Osborn. COVETOUSNESS, like a candle ill made, smothers the splendour of a happy fortune in its own grease. |