Reminiscences-Old Age-Memory I wept for memory. C. G. ROSSETTI, Song, She Sat and Sang Always. Slow-consuming age. Old friends are best. Our hour is fully out. GRAY, Ode on Eton College. St. 9. SELDEN, Table Talk. Friends. Antony and Cleopatra. iv, 9. MCKINLEY, Speech. Memphis, April 30, 1901. My life is one demd horrid grind. DICKENS, Nicholas Nickleby. Vol. II, ch. xxxii. Old dogs are in no hurry to bark. ANON. Asleep in the lap of legends old. KEATS, Eve of St. Agnes. Prefer old heads and young hands. ANON. The silver livery of advised age. King Henry VI. Pt. II, v, 2. Once more who would not be a boy? BYRON, Childe Harold. Canto ii, 23. Remembrance oft may start a tear. BURNS. Verses written under great grief. Old birds are not caught by chaff. ANON. The eternal landscape of the past. TENNYSON, In Memoriam. Pt. XLVI. There is no fool like an old fool. ANON. How ill white hairs become a fool. King Henry IV. Pt. II, v, 5, 1. 52. His saying was: live and let live. O good grey head which all men knew. TENNYSON, On Death of Duke of Wellington. St. 4. SCHILLER, Wallenstein's Lager. vi, 106, 1IO. Cows forget that they were calves. ANON. Time and wind stay no man's pleasure. SOUTHWELL, St. Peter's Complaint. Procrastination is the thief of time. YOUNG, Night Thoughts. N. i, 1. 393. By our remembrances of days foregone. All's Well that Ends Well. i, 3. All our tastes are but reminiscences. LAMARTINE. We have some salt of our youth in us. Merry Wives of Windsor. ii, 3. The dust we tread upon was once alive. BYRON, Sardanapalus. iv, 1, 1. 66. Remembrance and reflection how allied! POPE, Essay on Man. Ep. i, 1. 225. The very staff of my age, my very prop. Merchant of Venice. ii, 2. Still are the thoughts to memory dear. SCOTT, Rokeby. Canto i, st. 32. Sorrows remembered sweeten present joy. POLLOK, Course of Time. O, call back yesterday, bid time return. King Richard II. iii, 2. But where are the snows of yester year? May I attain to a youth never attained! THOREAU, Early Spring. Old men for counsel, young men for war. ANON. And make each day a critic on the last. POPE, Essay on Criticism. Pt. iii, 1. 12. He was not of an age, but for all time! BEN JONSON, Underwoods. xii. To Shakespeare's Memory. |