CHASTITY-CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH, &c. 6. And learn the luxury of doing good. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 7. True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. 8. The drying up a single tear has more Cowper. 117 BYRON'S Don Juan. 9. Unfee'd, the calls of nature she obeys, Not led by profit, nor allur'd by praise. CRABBE. 10. Would'st thou from sorrow find a sweet relief, 11. The ear, inclin'd to ev'ry voice of grief, The hand that op'd spontaneous to relief, The heart, whose impulse stay'd not for the mind But sprang to man's warm instinct for mankind. 118 CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH-SMILE, &c. 2. And therein sate a lady, fresh and fair, Making sweet solace to herself alone; That to her might move cause of merriment; SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 3. Which, when I saw rehears'd, I must confess, Made my eyes water, but more merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed. SHAKSPEARE. 4. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, 5. Fantastic, frolicsome, and wild, With all the trinkets of a child. SHAKSPEARE. COTTON. 6. And the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind. GOLDSMITH. 7. In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick ; But, missing his mirth and agreeable vein, As often we wish'd to have Dick back again. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 8. Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun, Who relish'd a joke, and rejoic'd in a pun. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 9. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH - SMILE, &c. 119 10. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. POPE. 11. Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, MILTON. 12. Lively and gossiping, 13. Stor'd with the treasures of the tattling world, Nor purpose gay, Amusement, dance, or song, he sternly sees, Are of the social, still, and smiling kind. COWPER. THOMSON'S Seasons. 14. For ever foremost in the ranks of fun, 15. Not oft to smile descendeth he, BYRON. And when he does, 't is sad to see BYRON'S Giaour. 16. And yet, methinks, the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh than scold, tho' laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. 17. He is so full of pleasing anecdote, BYRON'S Beppo. So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, JOANNA BAILLIE. 18. Were it not worse than vain, to close our eyes DOUGLAS JERROLD's Magazine. 120 CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH-SMILE, &c. 19. See how the day beameth brightly before us! 20. But then her face, From the German. So lovely, yet so arch-so full of mirth, ROGERS' Italy. 21. Light be thy heart! why should'st thou keep 22. It gives to beauty half its power, 23. MRS. A. B. WELBY. The nameless charm, worth all the rest- And speaks of sunshine in the breast. If beauty ne'er have set her seal, It will supply her absence too, And many a cheek looks passing fair, How beautiful the smile J. G. WHITTIER. 24. But Oh, there is a smile, which steals Sometimes upon the brow of care, And, like the north's cold light, reveals But gathering darkness there! J. G. WHITTIER. 25. Joy, like the zephyr that flies o'er the flower, 26. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream! 27. A little nonsense, now and then, Is relish'd by the best of men. MRS. OSGOOD. H. W. LONGfellow. 1. CHILDHOOD-YOUTH. For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, SHAKSPEARE. 2. I'll serve his youth, for youth must have its course, 3. The whining school-boy with his satchel, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. |