5. Rise early, and take exercise in plenty, EXILE. (See BANISHMENT.) EXPECTATION-SUSPENSE. 1. But be not long, for in the tedious minutes, Fell demon of our fears! the human soul, 3. "Yet doth he live!" exclaims th' impatient heir, And sighs for sables which he must not wear. FROWDE. MALLET. BYRON'S Lara. 4. Oh! how impatience gains upon the soul MRS. TIGHE'S Psyche. 5. To the fond doubting heart, its hopes appear While the scarce-trusted bliss seems but to cheat the eyes. MRS. TIGHE'S Psyche. 248 EXPERIENCE. 1. EXPERIENCE. To wilful men, The injuries that they themselves procure, 2. He jests at scars, that never felt a wound. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. If wisdom's friend, her best; if not, worst foe. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 4. Experience join'd to common sense, To mortals is a providence. 5. Some positive, persisting fools we know, GREEN. POPE's Essay on Criticism. 6. Experience, wounded, is the school Where men learn piercing wisdom. 7. O, teach him, while your lessons last, 8. For most men, till by losing render'd sager, 9. Her hopes ne'er drew LORD BROOK. SCOTT's Rokeby. BYRON'S Beppo. Aught from experience, that chill touchstone whose BYRON'S Island. EXTRAVAGANCE. 1. The man who builds, and wants wherewith to pay, Provides a home from which to run away. 2. We sacrifice to dress, till household joys And comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, 3. Dreading that climax of all human ills, The inflammation of his weekly bills. YOUNG. COWPER'S Task. BYRON'S Don Juan. 4. In my young days they lent me cash that way, Which I found very troublesome to pay. BYRON'S Don Juan. EXTREMES. 1. These violent delights have violent ends And in the taste confounds the appetite. 2. Those edges soonest turn, that are most keen; A sober moderation stands secure, SHAKSPEARE. No violent extremes endure. ALEYN. 3. Who gripes too hard the dry and slippery sand, Holds none at all, or little, in his hand. HERRICK. 250 EYES-FEATURES - LIPS, &c. 4. Extremes, though contrary, have the like effects: As extreme hatred; and too violent rigour Not to the sun, for they do shine by night; Nor to the fire, for they consume not ever: Whose light doth lighten all things here we see. 2. And, as the bright sun glorifies the sky, So is her face illumin'd by her eye. 3. Her eyes, in heaven, SPENSER'S Sonnets. SHAKSPEARE. Would through the airy region stream so bright, 4. Her eyes, like marygold, had sheath'd their light, 5. From woman's eyes this doctrine I derive : SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Disdain and scorn ride sparkling in her eyes. 7. Soft as the down, that swells the cygnet's nest. 8. Her tresses, loose behind, SHAKSPEARE. Play on her neck, and wanton in the wind; 9. In those sunk eyes the grief of years I trace, 10. In one soft look what language lies! 11. Her eyes outshine the radiant beams And sweetly tempt to kiss them! 12. By your eyes of heavenly blue, Your cheeks, where rose and lily blend, SHENSTONE. GAY'S Dione. TICKELL. DIBDIN. BURNS. The Padlock-A Farce. 13. Which melted in love, and which kindled in war. 14. From the glance of her eye Shun danger and fly, For fatal's the glance of Kate Kearney. CAMPBELL. MISS OWENSON. 15. With sweetness and beauty thy daughters arise, With rose-blooming cheeks, and love-languishing eyes. |