33. There are some hours that pass so soon, Our spell-touch'd hearts scarce know they end. 34. May thy soul with pleasure shine, CHARLES WOLFE. 35. Ah Pauline! who can gaze upon thee now, And watch thy cheek all beaming with delight, 36. May friendship open unto you The path of peace and holy love; May hope not too deceptive prove ;- J. T. WATSON. ENTERPRISE. (See ACTIVITY.) ENTHUSIASM - ZEAL. 1. No seared conscience is so fell 2. As that which has been burnt with zeal; For Christian charity's as well A great impediment to zeal, As zeal a pestilent disease To Christian charity and peace. Zeal and duty are not slow; But on occasion's forelock watchful wait. BUTLER. MILTON's Paradise Regained. 236 3. ENVY-EQUALITY. His zeal None seconded, as out of reason judg'd, MILTON'S Paradise Regained. 4. No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest, 5. On such a theme 't were impious to be calm; Passion is reason, transport, temper, here! Cowper. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. For virtue's self may too much zeal be had : The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 9. But faith, fanatic faith, once wedded fast To some dear falsehood, hugs it to the last. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. ENVY. (See CALUMNY.) EQUALITY-SUPERIORITY. 1. Consider, man; weigh well thy frame, GAY's Fables. 2. Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade; Or, ask of yonder argent fields above, Why Jove's satellites are less than Jove? POPE'S Essay on Man. 3. Order is heaven's first law; and, this confest, Some are, and must be, greater than the rest. POPE'S Essay on Man. 4. None but thyself can be thy parallel. 5. To cope with thee, would be about as vain As for a brook to cope with ocean's flood. BYRON'S Don Juan. 6. As some fierce comet of tremendous size,` POLLOK's Course of Time. 7. For mountains issue out of plains, and not BAILEY'S Festus. ERROR. 1. For he that once hath missèd the right way, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. More proselytes and converts use t'accrue BUTLER. ESTEEM. 3. Even so, by tasting of that fruit forbid, Where they sought knowledge, they did error find; And to give passion eyes, made reason blind. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 4. Truth, crush'd to earth, shall rise again: 1. W. C. BRYANT. ESTEEM. Love is not love, When it is mingled with respects, that stand Aloof from the entire point. SHAKSPEARE. 2. For all true love is grounded on esteem. BUCKINGHAM. 3. O, why is gentle love A stranger to that mind, Which pity and esteem can move, LORD LYTTLEton. 4. Take my esteem, if you on that can live; But, frankly, sir, 't is all I have to give. 5. She attracts me daily with her gentle virtues, So soft, and beautiful, and heavenly. DRYDEN. JAMES A. HILLHOUSE. 1. 2. ETERNITY-FUTURITY. O, that a man might know The end of this day's business, ere it come, Beyond is all abyss, SHAKSPEARE. Eternity, whose end no eye can reach. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 3. Too curious man! why dost thou seek to know DRYDEN. 4. Sure there is none but fears a future state; 5. Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought! Through what variety of untried beings Dryden. Through what new scenes and changes must we pass ! ADDISON'S Cato. 6. Heaven from all creatures hides the book of fate, All but the page prescrib'd, their present state. 7. Oh! in that future let us think POPE'S Essay on Man. To hold each heart the heart that shares; And, soul in soul, grow deathless theirs! BYRON. |