DESPAIR. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased; Despair Gives courage to the weak. Resolv'd to die, SHAKSPEAKE 189 SOMERVILE'S Chase. Lean abstinence, pale grief, and haggard care, So farewell, hope, and with hope farewell fear; PATTISON. MILTON'S Faradise Lost. My loss is such as cannot be repair'd, Talk not of comfort-'t is for lighter ills; DRYDEN. ADDISON'S Cato But desperate is their doom whom doubt has driven BEATTIE'S Minstrel Mine after-life! what is mine after-life? A hopeless darkness settles o'er my fate! JOANNA BAILLIE Alas! the breast that inly bleeds, Go, when the hunter's hand hath wrung BYRON'S Giaour. BYRON'S Giaour Despair defies even despotism; there is With levell'd spears. BYRON'S Two Foscari My mother earth! And thou, fresh breaking day! and you, ye mountains! Why are ye beautiful! I cannot love ye! Art a delight-thou shin'st not on my heart! BYRON'S Manfred. My solitude is solitude no more, But peopled with the furies; I have gnash'd BYRON'S Manfred. They, who have nothing more to fear, may well BYRON'S Sardanapalus. Hope is a willing slave-despair is free. One long, loud shriek swell'd on the air, R. DAWES. MRS. C. H. W. ESLING. DESTINY - FATE - NECESSITY. She stands, as stands the stricken deer Check'd midway in the fearful chase, The gaunt, grey robber, baying near The fond illusions I have cherish'd- What next? I know not, do not care- Since I have borne this withering blow. 19! J. G. WHITTIER. J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. DESTINY-FATE - NECESSITY. Who, then, can strive with strong necessity, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. What fate imposes, men must needs abide ; "T is necessity To which the gods must yield; and I obey, SHAKSPEARE. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER. Alas! what stay is there in human state, DRYDEN 19% DESTRUCTION - RUIN Fatal necessity is never known, Until it strike; and, till that blow be come, When fear admits no hope of safety, then LORD BROOKK Well, well-the world must turn upon its axis, HERRICK We are the victims of its iron rule, BYRON'S Don Juan. The warm and beating human heart its tool; And man, immortal, god-like, but its fool. Fate is above us all; MISS LANDON. We struggle, but what matters our endeavour? MISS LANDON. While warmer souls command, nay, make their fate, MOORE. DESTRUCTION-RUIN. See the wide waste of all-devouring years! POPE'S Moral Essays. They tore away some weeds, 't is true, MOORE DETERMINATION - RESOLUTION, &c. High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, Fine streets, brave houses, sacred sepulchres, Sure gates, sweet gardens, stately galleriesAll these, (Oh, pity!) now are turn'd to dust, And overgrown with black Oblivion's rust. SPENSER'S Fairy Queen 'T'heir sceptres broken and their swords in rust. BYRON'S Childe Harold Where her high steeples whilom used to stand, On which the lordly falcon wont to tower, SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. DETERMINATION-RESOLUTION, &c. Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, He is not worthy of the honey-comb, 193 That shuns the hive, because the bees have stings. SHAKSPEARE. Experience teacheth us That resolution's a sole help at need. SHAKSPEARE Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed; For what I will, I will-and there's an end. SHAKSPEARE. Although The air of Paradise did fan the house, And angels offic'd all, I will be gone. SHAKSPEARE. I'il speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. SHAKSPEARE. |