192 DESTRUCTION - RUIN. 5. Fatal necessity is never known, 6. When fear admits no hope of safety, then Necessity makes dastards valiant men. LORD BROOKE. 7. Well, well-the world must turn upon its axis, 8. We are the victims of its iron rule, 9. HERRICK. BYRON'S Don Juan. The warm and beating human heart its tool; Fate is above us all; MISS LANDON. We struggle, but what matters our endeavour? MISS LANDON. 10. While warmer souls command, nay, make their fate, Thy fate made thee, and forc'd thee to be great. MOORE. DESTRUCTION-RUIN. 1. See the wide waste of all-devouring years! POPE'S Moral Essays. 2. They tore away some weeds, 't is true, But all the flowers were ravish'd too. MOORE. 3. High towers, fair temples, goodly theatres, Strong walls, rich porches, princely palaces, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 4. Their sceptres broken and their swords in rust. BYRON'S Childe Harold. 5. Where her high steeples whilom used to stand, SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. DETERMINATION-RESOLUTION, &c. 1. Let come what will, I mean to bear it out, That shuns the hive, because the bees have stings. For what I will, I will-and there's an end. 5. I'll speak to it, though hell itself should gape, And bid me hold my peace. SHAKSPEARE. 194 DETRACTION - DINNER-DISAPPOINTMENT. 6. All the soul 7. Of man is resolution, which expires Never, from valiant men, till their last breath; For want of matter—it does not die, but Entice the sun CHAPMAN. From his ecliptic line-he shall obey 8. Men make resolves, and pass into decrees BARON. CHURCHILL. DINNER. (See APPETITE.) 1. DISAPPOINTMENT. My May of life Is fallen in the sere, the yellow leaf; And that which should accompany old age, I must not look to have, but, in their stead, 2. Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 3. While in the dark on thy soft hand I hung, And heard the tempting syren in thy tongue, 4. Impell'd with steps unceasing to pursue From MARTIAL. Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view, GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 5. Those high-built hopes that crush us by their fall. 6. Successful love may sate itself away, The wretched are the faithful; 't is their fate, CAMPBELL. BYRON's Lament of Tasso. 7. Thus ever fade my fairy dreams of bliss. BYRON'S Corsair. 8. I loved her well; I would have loved her better, Had love been met with love: as 't is, I leave her To brighter destinies, if so she deems them. BYRON'S Heaven and Earth. 9. O! ever thus from childhood's hour, I've seen my fondest hopes decay; I never lov'd a tree or flower, But it was the first to fade away! MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 10. Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd, Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd! 11. The hopes my soul had cherish'd Have wither'd one by one, MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. And, tho' life's flowers have perish'd, 196 DISAPPOINTMENT. 12. Such gather'd dust, when they had hop'd to see The richest fruits; the buds that promis'd fair Were early blasted, or but grew to be A mockery-a harvest of despair. W. C. LODGE. 13. I will love her no more—it is heathenish thus To bow to an idol that bends not to us; Which heeds not, which hears not, which recks not for aught That the worship of years to its altar has brought. C. F. HOFFMAN. 14. Hope, cheated too often when life's in its spring, From the bosom that nurs'd it for ever takes wing; And memory comes, as its promises fade, To brood o'er the havoc that passion has made. 15. I knew not how I lov'd thee-no! I knew it not till all was o'er Until thy lip had told me so Had told me I must love no more! 16. The conflict is over-the struggle is past, C. F. HOFFMAN. C. F. HOFFMAN. I have look'd-I have lov'd-I have worshipp'd my last; And life hath hereafter not one to betray. C. F. HOFFMAN. 17. Ay, such is man's philosophy when woman is untrue, The loss of one but teaches him to make another do. 18. Oh! I am sick of this dark world, My heart, my best affections blighted, My dawning hopes so soon benighted. J. H. McILVANE. |