...stumble at a straw. Dignity, high station, or great riches are in some sort necessary to old men, iii order to keep the younger at a distance, who are otherwise...too apt to insult them upon the score of their age. Kvery man desires to live long; but no man would be old. Love of flattery in most men proceeds from...

...words is no proof of wisdom. IT Is not death that makes the martyr, but lie eaute. — CANON DALE. EVERY man desires to live long, but no man would be old. SYMPATHY Is the key to truth ; we must love in order to appreciate. — LINDSAY. THERE is no courage...

...simple light." — Dryden. e Б. SmWi. "I am old now, and these same crosses spoil me." — Shakespeare. Every man desires to live long ; but no man would be old."— Sutft. a " Of ascending an eminence wh. would be difficult account of their sunken chests and short...

...Coleridge. Where there is much pretension, much has been borrowed ; nature never pretends. — Lavater. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. — Swift. The block of granite, which was an obstacle in the pathway of the weak, becomes a stepping-stone...

...women and girls. It is honor which must keep them to their duty, and not severity. — Molilre. 799 The love of flattery in most men proceeds from the mean...have of themselves ; in women, from the contrary. — Swift. 800 Woman's love, like lichens upon a rock, will still grow where even charity can find...

...contains two or more simple or complex sentences of equal rank. Ex. — " I came, I saw, I conquered;" "Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old." I* Leading. — The first sentence contained in a compound sentence. 2* Co-ordinate. — Any other...

...you gods, n poor old man, As full of grief as age ; wretched in both, r. A"m</ Lear. Act IL Sc. 4. equally good of a Raphael as of a Milton) is like a well *. SWIFT — Thoughts on Various Subjects, Moral and Diverting. Age, too, shines out, and garrulous...

...for want of a block he will stumble at a straw. Dignity, high station, or great riches, are in some sort necessary to old men, in order to keep the younger...man desires to live long; but no man would be old. * Harley. Love of flattery, in most men, proceeds from the mean opinion they have of themselves ; in...

...around the sun. 8. A wise son maketh a glad father, but a foolish fon is the heaviness of his mother. 9. Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old. 10. * Pride goeth before destruction, and a haughty spirit before a fall. 11. Towers are measured by...

...maintains its manly sense and energy of mind. Surely this goes against the cynical saying of Swift, that "Every man desires to live long, but no man would be old !" Of such it may be affirmed, even in a higher sense than the poet intended, that though they "look...