94 BOOKS-NEWSPAPER - PRESS. For highest looks have not the highest mind, Nor haughty words most full of highest thought; SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. Who knows himself a braggart, Here's a large mouth, indeed, SHAKSPEARE. That spits forth death, and mountains, rocks, and seas; Talks as familiarly of roaring lions, As maids of thirteen do of puppy dogs. What art thou? Have not I An arm as big as thine? a heart as big? • Thy words, I grant, are bigger, for I wear not My dagger in my mouth. We rise in glory, as we sink in pride; SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts For men, it is reported, dash and vapour than plain. DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar BOOKS-NEWSPAPER-PRESS. Books are a part of man's prerogative; In formal ink they thought and voices hold; SIR THOMAS OVERBURY BOOKS-NEWSPAPER - PRESS. "Tis in books the chief Of all perfections, to be plain and brief. BUTLER. "T were well with most, if books, that could engage COWPER, What is it but a map of busy life, Its fluctuations and its vast concerns? Cowper. Books should to one of these four ends conduce, For wisdom, piety, delight, or use. DENHAM The printed part, tho' far too large, is less Than that which, yet unprinted, waits the press. From the Spanish. The Past but lives in words: a thousand ages BULWER'S Cromwell. 'Tis pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book's a book, altho' there's nothing in 't. BYRON'S English Bards and Scotch Reviews. Turn to the press-its teeming sheets survey, Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires and wrecks, "T was heaven to lounge upon a couch, said Gray, CHARLES SPRAGUE's Curiosity. CHARLES SPRAGUE's Curiosity. And read new novels through a rainy day. 95 Trade hardly deems the busy day begun, CHARLES SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. See tomes on tomes, of fancy and of power, CHARLES SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. Turn back the tide of ages to its head, And hoard the wisdom of the honour'd dead. CHARLES SPRAGUE'S Curiosity Newspaper! who has never felt the pleasure that it brings? mirth It tells us of the price of stock-how much produce is worth And when, and where, and how, and why, strange things occur on earth. Has war's loud clarion call'd to arms?- has lightning struck a tree?— Has Jenkins broke his leg? -or has there been a storm at sea? Has the sea-serpent shown his head ?-a comet's tail been seen? Or has some heiress with her groom run off to Gretna Green? All this, and many wonders more, you from this sheet may glean. J. T. WATSON. BRAVERY - COURAGE - FORTITUDE. BRAVERY-COURAGE - FORTITUDE. In war, was never lion's rage so fierce ; SHAKSPEARE. In struggling with misfortune lies the proof Of virtue. SHAKSPEARE. Pr'ythee, peace: I dare do all that may become a man; SHAKSPEARE. His valour, shown upon our crests to-day, Hath taught us how to cherish such high deeds, SHAKSPEARE. But screw your courage to the sticking place, SHAKSPEARE. What though the field be lost? All is not lost; the ungovernable will, MILTON'S Paradise Lost. Let fortune empty all her quiver on me, For, as we see the eclipsed sun By mortals is more gazed upon, So valour, in a low estate, Is more admir'd and wonder'd at. DRYDEN. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 97 98 BRAVERY - COURAGE - FORTITUDE. He that is valiant, and dares fight, Though drubb'd, can lose no honour by 't. Which makes me smile, while all its shafts are in me. True fortitude is seen in great exploits YOUNG'S Revenge That justice warrants, and that wisdom guides; ADDISON'S Cato The wise and active conquer difficulties, ROWE. The brave man is not he who feels no fear; |