3. Once more upon the waters! yet once more, And the waves bound beneath me, as a steed That knows his rider! BYRON'S Childe Harold. 4. O'er the glad waters of the dark blue sea, BYRON'S Corsair. 5. Oh! who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried, And danc'd in triumph o'er the waters wide, The exulting sense the pulse's maddening play, 6. The polish'd mirror of the lake, In which the deep reflected sky appears, A calm, sublime immensity below. 7. Like an eagle caged I pine, On this dull, unchanging shore; 8. The sea! the sea! the open sea! BYRON'S Corsair. CARLOS WILCOX. The blue, the fresh, the ever free! BARRY CORNWALL (PROCTOR). 9. Thou boundless, shining, glorious sea! With ecstasy I gaze on thee; From the German. 10. Old Ocean's grey and melancholy waste. 11. I, too, have been upon thy rolling breast, Wildest of waters! I have seen thee lie Calm, as an infant pillow'd in its rest W. C. BRYANT. On a fond mother's bosom, when the sky, 12. For every wave, with dimpled face, That leap'd upon the air, Had caught a star in its embrace, And held it trembling there! J. G. PERCIVAL. MRS. AMELIA B. WELBY. OFFENCE. 1. In such a time as this, it is not meet That every nice offence should bear its comment. 2. What is my offence? Where is the evidence that doth accuse me? What lawful 'quest have given this verdict up 3. If my offence be of such mortal kind, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. That neither service past, nor present sorrows, Nor purpos'd merit in futurity, Can ransom me into his love again, But to know so much be my benefit; So shall I clothe me in a forc'd content, And shut myself up in some other course SHAKSPEARE. 4. The very head and front of my offending Hath this extent, no more. SHAKSPEARE. 5. For, well you know, we of th' offending side 6. All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 7. He hath wrong'd his queen, but still he is her lord ; He must not perish thus. BYRON'S Sardanapalus. 1. OFFICE. To hold a place In council, which was once esteem'd an honour, And a reward for virtue, hath quite lost Lustre and reputation, and is made A mercenary purchase. When impious men bear sway, 2. The post of honour is a private station. MASSINGER. ADDISON. 3. The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them; at his heels, And, with a dexterous jerk, soon twists him down, COWPER. And count, if possible, the pamper'd numbers, When faction's sickle sweeps the public wealth, DAWES' Athenia of Damascus. 5. And here and there some stern, high patriot stood, Who could not get the place for which he sued. BYRON'S Don Juan. OLD AGE. (See AGE.) OPINION. 1. Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan The outward habit by the inward man. 2. Opinion is that high and mighty dame SHAKSPEARE. Which rules the world, and in the mind doth frame 3. Let not opinion make thy judgment err; 4. Opinionators naturally differ HOWEL. LADY ALIMONY. From other men; as wooden legs are stiffer BUTLER'S Hudibras. 5. Opinion governs all mankind, Must be b'a dog glad to be led. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 6. And nothing's so perverse in nature, As a profound opinionator. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 7. We all, my lords, have err'd; Men may, I find, be honest, though they differ. OPPORTUNITY. 1. There is a tide in the affairs of men, Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; And we must take the current when it serves, THOMSON. SHAKSPEARE. 2. A little fire is quickly trodden out, Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench. SHAKSPEARE. 3. The means that heaven yields must be embrac'd, 4. And not neglected; else, if heaven would, Accursed opportunity! The midwife and the bawd to all our vices: SHAKSPEARE. That work'st our thoughts into desires; desires Thou giv'st them birth, and bring'st them forth to action. DENHAM. |