HENRY FIELDING.

1707 - 1754.

All nature wears one universal grin.

Tom Thumb the Great. Acti. Sc. 1.

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
To-day it is our pleasure to be drunk ;

And this our queen shall be as drunk as we.

Act i. Sc. 2.

When I'm not thank'd at all, I'm thank'd enough. I've done my duty, and I 've done no more.

Act i. Sc. 3.

Thy modesty's a candle to thy merit.

Act i. Sc. 3.

To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes.

Act i. Sc. 3.

Lo, when two dogs are fighting in the streets,
With a third dog one of the two dogs meets,
With angry teeth he bites him to the bone,
And this dog smarts for what that dog has done.1

Much may be said on both sides.

Act i. Sc. 6.

The Covent Garden Tragedy. Sc. 8.

1 Thus when a barber and a collier fight,

The barber beats the luckless collier - white;

The dusty collier heaves his ponderous sack,

And, big with vengeance, beats the barber - black. In comes the brick-dust man, with grime o'erspread, And beats the collier and the barber - red; Black, red, and white, in various clouds are tost, And in the dust they raise the combatants are lost. Christ. Smart, From The Trip to Cambridge. Campbell's Specimens, Vol. vi. p. 185.

334 Fielding.- Doddridge. - Cotton.

Oh! the roast beef of Old England,
And oh the old English roast beef.
The Roast Beef of Old England.

PHILIP DODDRIDGE.

1702-1751.

Live while you live, the epicure would say,
And seize the pleasures of the present day;
Live while you live, the sacred preacher cries,
And give to God each moment as it flies.
Lord, in my views, let both united be;
I live in pleasure when I live to thee.

Epigram on his Family Arms.'

NATHANIEL COTTON. 1707-1788.

If solid happiness we prize,
Within our breast this jewel lies;

And they are fools who roam :

The world has nothing to bestow;

From our own selves our joys must flow,

And that dear hut,

our home.

The Fireside. St. 3.

To be resigned when ills betide,
Patient when favours are denied,
And pleased with favours given;

1 Dum vivimus vivamus.

From Ortin's Life of Doddridge.

Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart

Whose fragrance smells to heaven.

The Fireside. St. 11.

Thus hand in hand through life we'll go;
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe

With cautious steps we 'll tread.

Ibid. St. 13.

Yet still we hug the dear deceit.

Content.

Vision iv.

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN. 1706-1790.

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.1

Historical Review of Pennsylvania.

God helps them that help themselves.2

Poor Richard.

1 This sentence was much used in the Revolutionary Period. It occurs even so early as November, 1755, in an answer by the Assembly of Pennsylvania to the Governor, and forms the motto of Franklin's Historical Review, 17 59, appearing also in the body of the work.Frothingham's Rise of the Republic of the United States,

p. 413.

2 Help thyself, and God will help thee.

Herbert, Facula Prudentum.

Aide toi et le Ciel t'aidera.

Fontaine, Book vi. Fable 18.

Heaven ne'er helps the men who will not act.

Sophocles, Frag. 288, ed. Dindorf.

Dost thou love life, then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

Poor Richard.

Ibid.

Plough deep while sluggards sleep.

Never leave that till to-morrow which you can

do to-day.

Three removes are as bad as a fire.

Vessels large may venture more,

Ibid.

Ibid.

But little boats should keep near shore. Ibid.

He has paid dear, very dear, for his whistle. The Whistle. (Nov. 1719.)

There never was a good war or a bad peace.1 Letter to Quincy, Sept. 11, 1773. Here Skugg

Lies snug,

As a bug

In a rug.

From a Letter to Miss Georgiana Shipley.

SAMUEL JOHNSON.

1709 - 1784.

Let observation with extensive view

Survey mankind from China to Peru.2

Vanity of Human Wishes. Line 1.

1 It hath been said that an unjust peace is to be preferred before a just war. S. Butler, Speeches in the Rump Parliament. Butler's Remains.

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2 All human race, from China to Peru,

Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue.

Rev. T. Warton, The Universal Love of Pleasure.

Vanity of Human Wishes continued.]

There mark what ills the scholar's life assail, Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Line 159.

He left the name at which the world grew pale, To point a moral, or adorn a tale. Live 221.

Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know That life protracted is protracted woe.

Line 257.

An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.

Line 293.

Superfluous lags the veteran on the stage.

Line 308.

Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise! From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage

flow,

And Swift expires, a driveller and a show.

Line 316.

Must helpless man, in ignorance sedate,
Roll darkling down the torrent of his fate?
Line 345.

For patience, sovereign o'er transmuted ill.

Line 362.

Of all the griefs that harass the distrest,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest.

London. Line 166.

This mournful truth is everywhere confess'd, Slow rises worth by poverty depress'd.

Line 176.