414 LOVE. LOVELINESS. Oh, sunny Love! Crown'd with fresh flow'ring May, Oh, fatal Love! Thy wreath is nightshade all, Oh, fatal Love! Frances A. Butler. Who says he loves and is not wretched, lies; mother. It is the most reasonable thing in nature. P. J. Bailey. LOVELINESS. WHо hath not prov'd how feebly words essay Byron. Words cannot paint thee, gentlest cynosure Thou art beautiful, young lady: Bulwer. J. G. Whittier. LOWLINESS. LOWLINESS. LOWLINESS is young ambition's ladder, The merlin cannot ever soar on high, 415 Shakspere. Nor greedy greyhound still pursue the chase: The tender lark will find a time to fly, And fearful hare to run a quiet race. He that high growth on cedars did bestow, Gave also lowly mushrooms leave to grow. In Haman's pomp poor Mordocheus wept, Yet God did turn his fate upon his foe. The lazar pin'd, while Dives' feast was kept, Yet he to heaven-to hell did Dives go. We trample grass, and prize the flowers of May; Yet grass is green, when flowers do fade away. Honour better lowness bears Southwell. That lowliness of heart, the highest sense Marvel, Shelley, from Goethe. The flower of sweetest smell Is shy and lowly. A lowly lot is mine, maiden! Wordsworth. But I would not envy kings, maiden! If thou would'st make it thine. If thou would'st make it thine, maiden! In lowliness thoud'st find, maiden! Is true felicity! Anon 416 LOYALTY. LUCK. LUMBER. LOYALTY. WE, too, are friends to loyalty; we love The King who loves the law, respects his bounds, And reigns content within them. The bounds of loyalty are made of glass; Shakspere. Soon broke, but can in no date be repaired. Chapman. Loyalty is still the same, Whether it win or lose the game; Butler. Spenser. Shakspere. LUCK. GLAD of such luck, the luckless, lucky maid Farewell, good luck go with thee! He forced his neck into a noose, Butler. LUMBER. ONE son at home Concerns thee more than many guests to come; He grows mere lumber, and is worse than dead. What are riches, empire, pow'r, But larger means to gratify the will? Dryden. The steps on which we tread, to rise and reach their end, And are, like lumber, to be left and scorn'd. Congreve. LUST. LUXURY. LUST-LUSTY. Love comforteth like sunshine after rain, 417 Shakspere. Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty: For in my youth I never did apply Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood.-Shakspere. But when Lust...... Lets in defilement to the inward parts, Milton. Lust is, of all the frailties of our nature, Nor hears the rider's call, nor feels the rein.-Rowe. LUXURY. WHEN lo! persuasive Luxury draws near, Howes, from Persius. War destroys man, but luxury, mankind- Crown. O luxury! thou curs'd by heaven's decree, Goldsmith. 418 MADNESS. MAGNANIMITY. MAGNIFICENCE. MADNESS. THIS is mere madness; And thus awhile the fit will work on him: Shakspere. Lay not that flattering unction to your soul, There is a pleasure in being mad, Shakspere. Dryden. MAGNANIMITY. WITH deadly hue an armed corse did lie, In whose dread face he read great magnanimity. Spenser. They had enough revenged, having reduced Their foe to misery beneath their feas; If some convenient reason was proposed. Milton. To give a kingdom hath been thought MAGNIFICENCE. A PRINCE is never so magnificent, Milton. As when he's sparing to enrich a few Massinger. Not Babylon, Nor great Alcario, such magnificence Their kings, when Egypt and Assyria strove Milton. |