242 EXCELLENCE - MERIT - WORTH. EXCELLENCE - MERIT - WORTH. 1. The sweet eye-glances, that like arrows glide, Cannot expressèd be by any art. SPENSER'S Sonnets. 2. Oh, how much more doth beauty beauteous seem, By that sweet ornament which truth doth give! The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odour which doth in it live. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPEARE. 4. A combination and a form indeed, Where every god did seem to set his seal, SHAKSPEARE. 5. More pity that the eagle should be mew'd, While kites and buzzards prey at liberty. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd. MILTON. 7. Good nature and good sense must ever join; To err is human, to forgive divine. POPE. 8. Beauties in vain their pretty eyes may roll; Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul. POPE. 9. Form'd by the converse happily to steer from lively to severe; From grave to gay, Intent to reason, or polite to please. POPE. 10. Worth makes the man, and want of it, the fellow. 11. Let envy snarl, let slander rail; 12. In vain malicious fongues assail: From virtue's shield (secure from wound,) A matchless pair; With equal virtue form'd, and equal grace, POPE. GAY's Fables. 13. Ease in your mien, and sweetness in your face, 14. Full many a gem, of purest ray serene, The dark, unfathom'd caves of ocean bear; THOMSON. TICKELL. GRAY'S Elegy. 15. His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; 16. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. Describe him who can, An abridgement of all that was pleasant in man. GOLDSMITH's Retaliation. 17. For she was good as she was fair, None, none on earth above her- To see her, was to love her. 244 EXCELLENCE - MERIT-WORTH. 18. Angels attend thee! May their wings Fan every shadow from thy brow— For only bright and lovely things Should wait on one so good as thou. 19. But there are deeds which should not pass away, And names that must not wither. 20. Of many charms, to her as natural BYRON'S Childe Harold. As sweetness to the flower, or salt to ocean. BYRON'S Don Juan. 21. Oh! she was perfect, past all parallel! BYRON'S Don Juan. 22. Tho' modest, on his unembarrass'd brow Nature had written-Gentleman. 25. I think of thee, sweet lady, as of one Kindred with those around, yet brighter far. MRS. A. B. WELBY. 26. The noble mind, unconscious of a fault, No fortune's frowns can bend, or smiles exalt, 27. All beaming with light as those young features are, 28. One in whose love, I felt, were given The mix'd delights of either sphere; All that the spirit seeks in heaven, And all the senses burn for here! MOORE. MOORE's Loves of the Angels. 29. The fame that a man wins himself, is best; EXCESS. (See DRINKING.) MIDDLETON. EXECUTION. 1. 'Tis now past midnight, and, by eight to-morrow, Thou must be made immortal. But in their deaths remember they are men ; Strain not the laws to make their tortures grievous. 21* ADDISON'S Cato. 246 4. EXERCISE. Slave! do thine office! Strike as I struck the foe! strike as I would Have struck those tyrants! strike deep as my curse! Strike-and but once! BYRON'S Marino Faliero. 5. These the last accents Hugo spoke, "Strike:"—and flashing fell the stroke— BYRON'S Parisina. EXERCISE. 1. Nobody's healthful without exercise; Just wars are exercises of a state; Virtue's in motion, and contends to rise, With generous ascents above a mate. ALEYN. 2. He does allot for every exercise A several hour; for sloth, the nurse of vices, MASSINGER. 3. Weariness Can snore upon the flint, when resty sloth SHAKSPEARE. 4. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, |