Batter'd with wind and weather.
Inigo Jones put me together.
Sir Han Sloane

Let me alone;

Burlington brought me hither.

Pope-to an old Gate in Chiswick Gardens.

CCCXLII.

Our senses, our appetites, and our passions, are our lawful and faithful guides, in most things that relate solely to this life; and, therefore, by the hourly necessity of consulting them, we gradually sink into an implicit submission, and habitual confidence. Every act of compliance with their motions facilitates a second compliance, every new step towards depravity is made with less reluctance than the former, and thus the descent to life merely sensual is perpetually accelerated.-Johnson. CCCXLIH.

Long sentences in a short composition, are like large rooms in a little house.-Shenstone.

CCCXLIV.

If after all, we must with Wilmot own
The cordial drop of life is love alone,
And Swift cry wisely Vive la bagatelle!

The man that loves and laughs, must sure do well.

CCCXLV.

Pope.

To be ambitious of true honour, of the true glory and perfection of our natures, is the very principle and incentive of virtue; but to be ambitious of titles, of place, of ceremonial respects and civil pageantry, is as vain, and little as the things are which we court.-Sherlock.

CCCXLVI.

I've heard old cunning stagers

Say fools for arguments use wagers.

CCCXLVII.

Butler.

Ovid finely compares a man of broken fortune to a

falling column; the lower it sinks the greater weight it is obliged to sustain. Thus, when a man has no occasion to borrow, he finds numbers willing to lend him. Should he ask his friend to lend him a hundred pounds, it is possible from the largeness of his demand, he may find credit for twenty; and should he humbly only sue for a trifle, it is two to one whether he might be trusted for two-pence.-Goldsmith.

CCCXLVIII.

There is a grief in every kind of joy,

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And who were he which would not drink annoy,
To taste thereby the lightest dram of love.

CCCXLIX.

Gascoigne.

Some are too indolent to read any thing, till its reputation is established: others too envious to promote that fame which gives them pain by its increase. What is new is opposed, because most are unwilling to be taught: and what is known is rejected, because it is not sufficiently considered that men more frequently require to be reminded than informed.-Johnson.

CCCL.

All things that are pernicious in their progress, must be evil in their birth. Now grief, and every other passion, if carried to an immoderate height, have undoubtedly very mischievous consequences; and therefore, from their very rise, must be tainted with a great part of the lurking mischief. For no sooner is the government of reason thrown off, than they rush forward of their own accord; weakness takes a pleasure to indulge itself; and having, if the expression may be allowed, imperceptibly launched out into the main ocean, can find no place where to stop.-Cicero.

CCCLI.

Longevity ought to be higly valued by men of piety and parts, as it will enable them to be much more use

ful to mankind, and especially to their own country. As to others it is no great matter, since they are a disgrace to mankind, and their death is rather a service to the public.-Cornaro.

CCCLII.

Let us begin with the great man by break of day: for by that time he is besieged by two or three hundred suitors; and the hall and antechambers (all the outworks) possessed by the enemy: as soon as his chamber opens, they are ready to break into that, or to corrupt the guards, for entrance. This is so essential a part of greatness, that whosoever is without it, looks like a fallen favourite, like a person disgraced, and condemned to do what he pleases all the morning. There are some who, rather than want this, are contented to have their rooms filled up every day with murmuring and cursing creditors, and to charge bravely through a body of them to get to their coach.-Cowley.

CCCLIII.

Sloth makes all things difficult, but industry all easy; and he that riseth late must trot all day, and shall scarce overtake his business at night; while laziness travels so slowly, that poverty soon overtakes him.—Franklin.

CCCLIV.

To be deprived of the person we love, is a happiness in comparison of living with one we hate.-Bruyere.

Worthy friends,

CCCLV.

You that can keep your memories to know
Your friends in miseries, and cannot frown
On men disgraced in virtue.

CCCLVI.

Buckingham.

Pleasure is a necessary reciprocal no one feels, who does not at the same time give it. To be pleased, one must please. What pleases you in others, will in gene. ral please them in you.-Chesterfield.

CCCLVII.

Your hearts make ladders of your eyes, In show to climb to heaven, when your devotion Walks upon crutches.

CCCLVIII.

Would you taste the tranquil scene?

Be sure your bosoms be serene:
Devoid of hate, devoid of strife,
Devoid of all that poisons life;

And much it 'vails you, in their place

To graft the love of human race.

CCCLIX.

Massinger.

Shenstone.

A leap into the sea, or into any creck of salt waters, very often gives a new motion to the spirits, and a new turn to the blood; for which reason we prescribe it in distempers which no other medicine will reach.-Addison.

CCCLX.

There is nothing sooner overthrows a weak head, than opinion of authority; like too strong a liquor for a frail glass.-Sir P. Sidney.

CCCLXI.

Ye glittering towns, with wealth and splendour crown'd;
Ye fields, where summer spreads profusion round;
Ye lakes, whose vessels catch the busy gale;
Ye bending swains that dress the flowery vale:
For me your tributary stores combine:

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine.

CCCLXII.

Goldsmith.

Though sinking in decrepit age, he prematurely falls, whose memory records no benefit conferred on him by man. They only have lived long, who have lived virtuously.Sheridan.

CCCLXIII.

Among the writers of all ages, some deserve fame, and have it; others neither have nor deserve it; some

have it, not deserving; others, though deserving, yet totally miss it, or have it not equal to their deserts.

CCCLXIV.

Milton.

To think well of every other man's condition, and to dislike our own, is one of the misfortunes of human nature:

Pleas'd with each other's lot, our own we hate."

CCCLXV.

Burton.

There is something in the deportment of all our players infinitely more stiff and formal than among the actors of other nations. Their action sits uneasy upon them; for as the English use very little gesture in ordinary conversation, our English-bred actors are obliged to supply stage gestures by their imagination alone. A French comedian finds proper models of action in every company and in every coffee-house he enters. An Englishman is obliged to take his models from the stage itself; he is obliged to imitate nature from an imitation of nature. I know of no set of men more likely to be improved by travelling than those of the theatrical profession. The inhabitants of the continent are less reserved than here; they may be seen through upon a first acquaintance; such are the proper models to draw from; they are at once striking, and are found in great abundance.-Goldsmith.

CCCLXVI.

Endymion. If it be love

To lose the memory of all things else,
To forget all respect of his own friends,
In thinking of your face; if it be love
To sit cross-arm'd, and sigh away the day,
Mingled with starts, crying your name as loud
And hastily as men i' the streets do fire:
If it be love to weep himself away,
When he but hears of any lady dead,

Or kill'd because it might have been your chance;
If when he goes to rest, (which will not be)