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MAN.

MAN.-Man goeth to his long home.

ECCLESIASTES.-Chap. 12. Verse 5.

Man that flowers so fresh at morn, and fades at evening late. SPENSER.-Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto IX.

Such is the state of men!

SPENSER.-The Fairy Queen, Book II. Canto II.
Stanza 2; SHAKSPERE-King Henry VIII.
Act III. Scene 2.

What a piece of work is man! how noble in reason! how infinite in faculty! in form and moving, how express and admirable in action how like an angel! in apprehension how like a god!

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.

(Hamlet to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

Man is his own star, and that soul that can
Be honest, is the only perfect man.

FLETCHER.-Miscellaneous Poems.

Man, each man's born

For the high business of the public good.
For me, 'tis mine to pray, that men regard
Their occupations with an honest heart,
And cheerful diligence

DYER. The Fleece, Book II.

Man hath his daily work of body or mind appointed.
MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV.

Man doom'd to care, to pain, disease, and strife,
Walks his short journey through the vale of life:
Watchful, attends the cradle and the grave,
And passing generations longs to save:

Last dies himself: yet wherefore should we mourn?
For man must to his kindred dust return;

Submit to the destroying hand of fate,

As ripen'd ears the harvest-sickle wait.

EURIPIDES.-Yonge's Cicero, Tusculan Disp.
Book III. Page 387.

Man!

Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear.

BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 109.

Man is the tale of narrative old time.

YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 109.

MAN.-Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.

GOLDSMITH.-The Hermit, Verse 8.

Man wants but little; nor that little long.

YOUNG.-Night IV. Line 118; GOLDSMITH—
Learning wisdom in retirement.

Say first, of God above, or man below,

What can we reason, but from what we know?
Of man, what see we but his station here,
From which to reason, or to which refer?

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 17.

Why has not man a microscopic eye?
For this plain reason, man is not a fly.
Say what the use, were finer optics given,

T'inspect a mite, not comprehend the heaven?

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 193.

Go, wondrous creature! mount where science guides,
Go, measure earth, weigh air, and state the tides;
Instruct the planets in what orbs to run,
Correct old Time, and regulate the sun;
Go, teach Eternal Wisdom how to rule,
Then drop into thyself, and be a fool!

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 19.

One part, one little part, we dimly scan,
Thro' the dark medium of life's feverish dream,
Yet dare arraign the whole stupendous plan,
If but that little part incongruous seem,
Nor is that part perhaps what mortals deem.
Oft from apparent ill our blessings rise:

O then renounce that impious self-esteem,
That aims to trace the secrets of the skies:
For thou art but of dust; be humble, and be wise.

BEATTIE.-The Minstrel, Book I. Stanza 50.

O, see the monstrousness of man

When he looks out in an ungrateful shape!

SHAKSPERE.-Timon of Athens, Act III. Scene 2. (The first Stranger to Another.)

No laws, or human or divine,

Can the presumptuous race of man confine.

FRANCIS' Horace.-Book I. Ode III. Line 27.

MAN.-So man, the moth, is not afraid, it seems,
To span omnipotence, and measure might,
That knows no measure, by the scanty rule
And standard of his own, that is to-day,
And is not ere to-morrow's sun go down.

COWPER.-The Task, Book VI. Line 211.

Inhumanity is caught from man

From smiling man.

YOUNG.-Night V. Line 158.

Man's revenge,

And endless inhumanities on man.

YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 104.

O Thou who dost permit these ills to fall,

For gracious ends, and would'st that men should mourn!
YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 134.

And man, whose heaven-directed face

The smiles of love adorn,

Man's inhumanity to man

Makes countless thousands mourn!

BURNS.-Man was Made to Mourn, Verse 7.

Trust not a man; we are by nature false,
Dissembling, subtle, cruel, and unconstant:
When a man talks of love, with caution trust him;
But if he swears, he'll certainly deceive thee.

OTWAY.-The Orphan, Act II. Scene 1.

Man doth purpose, but God doth dispose.

THOMAS A KEMPIS.-De Imit. Christ., Book I.
Chap. XIX. Div. 2.

Man proposeth, God disposeth.

GEORGE HERBERT.-Jacula Prudentum, Line 2. A proper man, as one shall see in a summer's day. SHAKSPERE.-A Midsummer Night's Dream, Act I. Scene 2. (Quince instructing Bottom to play Pyramus.)

A king, so good, so just, so great,

That at his birth the heavenly council paus'd,

And then, at last, cry'd out, this is a man!

DRYDEN.-The Duke of Guise, Act I. Scene 1.

This was a man!

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act V. Scene 5.
(Antony on Brutus.)

MAN.-Man delights not me, no, nor woman neither.
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2.
(To Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

I dare do all that may become a man;
Who dares more is none.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7.
(To his Lady.)

MANKIND.-Mankind by various arts ascend
The paths to eminence that tend.

WHEELWRIGHT'S Pindar.-Nemean Ode I.
Line 35.

And by th' indulgent powers of heaven,

Success in various paths is given.

WHEELWRIGHT's Pindar.-Olympic Ode V.
Line 20.

At common births the world feels nothing new;
At these she shakes; mankind lives in a few.

BEN JONSON.-Prince Henry's Barriers.

MANNER.-Costard. The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The manner of it is, I was taken with the

manner.

Biron. In what manner?

Costard. In manner and form following, sir; all those three; I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following her into the park, which put together, is in manner and form following.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act I.
Scene 1.

Olivia. What kind of man is he?

Malvolio. Why, of mankind.

Olivia. What manner of man?

Malvolio. Of very ill manner; he'll speak with you, will you,

or no.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 5.

MANNERS.-Our country manners give our betters way. SHAKSPERE.-King John, Act I. Scene 1. (The Bastard to Queen Elinor.)

Manners make the man.

MOTTO OF WILLIAM OF WYKEHAM.

Education makes the man.

CAWTHORNE.-Birth and Education of Genius.

MANNERS.-The attentive eyes,
That saw the manners in the face.

Dr. JOHNSON.-Epitaph for Hogarth.

Impartially their talents scan,

Just education forms the man.

GAY.-Fable XIV. Part 2.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow,
The rest is all but leather, or prunella.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 203.

Meantime intent the fairest plan to find,
To form the manners and improve the mind.
FENTON.-Epi. to Lambard.

Evil habits soil a fine dress more than mud; good manners, by their deeds, easily set off a lowly garb.

RILEY'S Plautus, The Poenulus, Act I. Scene 2;
The Mostellaria, Act I. Scene 3.

MANTLE.-The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world-a sacred gift to man.

CAMPBELL.-Pleasures of Hope, Part I.

And Elijah passed by him, and cast his mantle upon him. 1 KINGS, Chap. XIX. Verse 19.

MANY.-Many a time and oft.

SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 1.
(Marcellus to the Citizens.)

MARCH.-Beware the ides of March.

SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act I. Scene 2.

(Soothsayer to Cæsar.)

Remember March, the ides of March remember! SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)

I'll not march through Coventry with them, that's flat.
SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act IV.
Scene 2. (Falstaff to Bardolph.)

MARE.-Unless you yield for better or for worse:
Then the she-Pegasus shall gain the course;
And the grey mare will prove the better horse.
PRIOR.-Epil. to Lucius.

Then all shall be set right, and the man shall have his mare again.
DRYDEN.-Love Triumphant, Act III. Scene 2.