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Not lost, but gone before.[283:8]
Commentaries. Matthew ii.
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Those that are above business.
Commentaries. Matthew xx.
Better late than never.[284:1]
Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
Saying and doing are two things.
Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
Judas had given them the slip.
Commentaries. Matthew xxii.
After a storm comes a calm.
Commentaries. Acts ix.
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
Commentaries. Acts x.
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true.
Commentaries. Timothy i.
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with.[284:2]
Commentaries. Timothy iii.
[282:4] Mathew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry (1631-1691): "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of the comforts of this life, 'All this, and heaven too!'"—Life of Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70. (London, 1830.)
[282:5] See Middleton, page 172.
[282:6] See Venning, page 262.
[283:1] Nature says best; and she says, Roar!—Edgeworth: Ormond, chap. v. (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.)
[283:2] I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober second thought of the people shall be law.—Fisher Ames: On Biennial Elections, 1788.
[283:3] See Heywood, page 19.
[283:4] Bread is the staff of life.—Swift: Tale of a Tub.
Corne, which is the staffe of life.—Winslow: Good Newes from New England, p. 47. (London, 1624.)
The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.—Isaiah iii. 1.
[283:5] Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my boy! that is the complexion of virtue."—Diogenes Laertius: Diogenes, vi.
[283:6] See Heywood, page 12.
[283:7] There is none so blind as they that won't see.—Swift: Polite Conversation, dialogue iii.
[283:8] Literally from Seneca, Epistola lxiii. 16.
Not dead, but gone before.—Rogers: Human Life.
[284:1] See Heywood, page 13.
[284:2] See Appendix, page 859.
RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662-1742.It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself.
Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.
"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like.[284:3]
Declaration of Rights.
The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.[284:4]
Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).
[284:3] See Dryden, page 276.
[284:4] That fortuitous concourse of atoms.—Review of Sir Robert Peel's Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270 (1835).
In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of atoms,—a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.—Croker Papers, vol. ii. p. 54.
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HENRY CAREY. 1663-1743.God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!
God save the King.
Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
Let the singing singers
With vocal voices, most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3.
Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"
Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.
Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.
The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2.
What a monstrous tail our cat has got!
The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1.
Of all the girls that are so smart,
There 's none like pretty Sally.[285:1]
Sally in our Alley.
Of all the days that 's in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that 's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
Sally in our Alley.
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Of all the girls that e'er was seen,
There 's none so fine as Nelly.
Swift: Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet.
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DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-1731.Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;[286:1]
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.
[286:1] See Burton, page 192.
TOM BROWN. 1663-1704.I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.[286:2]
Laconics.
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back.[286:3]
Laconics.
In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the Gospel, but abandon yourselves to [287]your irregular appetites, you must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is not good manners to mention here."[287:1]
Laconics.
[286:2] A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works collected and published after his death:—
Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te
(I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can say, I do not love thee).—Martial: Epigram i. 33.
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas;
Je n'en saurois dire la cause,
Je sais seulement une chose;
C'est que je ne vous aime pas.
Bussy: Comte de Rabutin. (1618-1693.)
[286:3] Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a shirt.—Sorbienne (1610-1670).
Goldsmith: The Haunch of Venison.
[287:1] Who never mentions hell to ears polite.—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle iv. line 149.
MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721.All jargon of the schools.[287:2]
I am that I am. An Ode.
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim
At objects in an airy height;
The little pleasure of the game
Is from afar to view the flight.[287:3]
To the Hon. Charles Montague.
From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.[287:4]
To the Hon. Charles Montague.
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
A Better Answer.
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.
An English Padlock.
That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.
Hans Carvel.
The end must justify the means.
Hans Carvel.
And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
Till all the whores were burnt alive.
Paulo Purganti.
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.[287:5]
Upon a passage in the Scaligerana.
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.[287:6]
Henry and Emma.
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Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often took leave, but was loth to depart.[288:1]
The Thief and the Cordelier.
Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;
The son of Adam and of Eve:
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?[288:2]
Epitaph. Extempore.
Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven.
Charity.
His noble negligences teach
What others' toils despair to reach.
Alma. Canto ii. Line 7.
Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em,
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
Alma. Canto iii. Line 13.
Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.
Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book ii. Line 364.
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.[288:3]
Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 102.
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Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.
Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 240.
A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.[289:1]
The Wandering Pilgrim.
[287:2] Noisy jargon of the schools.—Pomfret: Reason.
The sounding jargon of the schools.—Cowper: Truth, line 367.
[287:3]
But all the pleasure of the game
Is afar off to view the flight.
Variations in a copy dated 1692.
[287:4] See Davenant, page 217.
[287:5] See Jonson, page 180. Also Dryden, page 268.
[287:6] Fine by defect, and delicately weak.—Pope: Moral Essays, epistle ii. line 43.
[288:1] As men that be lothe to departe do often take their leff. [John Clerk to Wolsey.]—Ellis: Letters, third series, vol. i. p. 262.
"A loth to depart" was the common term for a song, or a tune played, on taking leave of friends. Tarlton: News out of Purgatory (about 1689). Chapman: Widow's Tears. Middleton: The Old Law, act iv. sc. 1. Beaumont and Fletcher: Wit at Several Weapons, act ii. sc. 2.
[288:2] The following epitaph was written long before the time of Prior:—
Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,
Descendit of Adam and Eve.
Gif ony con gang hieher,
Ise willing give him leve.
[288:3] This thought is ascribed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laertius (Aristotle, v. xi.), who, when asked what hope is, answered, "The dream of a waking man." Menage, in his "Observations upon Laertius," says that Stobæus (Serm. cix.) ascribes it to Pindar, while Ælian (Var. Hist. xiii. 29) refers it to Plato.
Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium (Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake).—Quintilian: vi. 2, 27.
[289:1] A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.—Tom Brown: Works, vol. iv. p. 11.
JOHN
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