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The naked every day he clad

When he put on his clothes.

Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog.

And in that town a dog was found,

As many dogs there be,

Both mongrel, puppy, whelp, and hound,

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The dog it was that died.

When lovely woman stoops to folly,

Ibid.

And finds too late that men betray, What charm can soothe her melancholy? What art can wash her guilt away?

On Woman (Vicar of Wakefield, Ch. xxiv.).

The only art her guilt to cover,
To hide her shame from every eye,
To give repentance to her lover,
And wring his bosom, is to die.

The wretch condemn'd with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies ;

And every pang that rends the heart

Bids expectation rise.

Ibid.

The Captivity. Act ii. Orig. MS.

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light,
Adorns and cheers the way;

And still, as darker grows the night,

Emits a brighter ray.

Ibid.

[Goldsmith continued.

Measures, not men, have always been my mark.1 The Good-Natured Man. Act ii.

The very pink of perfection.

She stoops to conquer.

Act i. Sc. I.

A concatenation accordingly. Ibid. Act i. Sc. 2.

Ask me no questions, and I'll tell you no fibs.

Ibid.

The king himself has follow'd her

When she has walk'd before.

Act iii.

Elegy on Mrs. Mary Blaize.2

Such dainties to them, their health it might hurt ; It's like sending them ruffles, when wanting a The Haunch of Venison.

shirt.3

WILLIAM MASON.

1725-1797.

The fattest hog in Epicurus' sty. Heroic Epistle.

1 Of this stamp is the cant of Not men, but measures. - Burke, Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. 2 Written in imitation of Chanson sur le fameux La Palisse, which is attributed to Bernard de la Monnoye. "On dit que dans ses amours

Il fut caressé des belles,

Qui le suivirent toujours,

Tant qu'il marcha devant elles."

3 To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy and fill his snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that has never a shirt on his back. Tom Brown, Laconics.

EDMUND BURKE.

1729-1797.

The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own.

Preface to A Vindication of Natural Society.1 Vol.i. p. 7.

"War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince"; and, by a prince, he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political Doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute, military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature.

A Vindication of Natural Society. Vol. i. p. 15.

There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue.

Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation. Vol. i. p. 273.

Illustrious predecessor.

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents.
Vol. i. p. 456.

When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall, one by one, an unpitied sacrifice, in a contemptible struggle.

Ibid.

Vol. i. p. 526.

1 Boston Ed. 1865–1867.

A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.

Speech on Conciliation with America.

Vol. ii. p. 117.

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All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter.

Ibid. Vol. ii. p. 169.

The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm, and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue.

Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll.1 Vol. ii. p. 429.

They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man. On the Army Estimates. Vol. iii. p. 221.

You had that action and counteraction, which, in the natural and in the political world, from the

1 At the conclusion of one of Mr. Burke's eloquent harangues, Mr. Cruger, finding nothing to add, or perhaps, as he thought, to add with effect, exclaimed earnestly in the language of the counting-house, "I say ditto to Mr. Burke, I say ditto to Mr. Burke."— Prior's Life of Burke, p. 152.

reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe.1

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 277.

It is now sixteen or seventeen years since I saw the Queen of France, then the Dauphiness, at Versailles; and surely never lighted on this orb, which she hardly seemed to touch, a more delightful vision. I saw her just above the horizon, decorating and cheering the elevated sphere she just began to move in,-glittering like the morning-star, full of life, and splendour, and joy. . . . . Little did I dream that I should have lived to see such disasters fallen upon her in a nation of gallant men, in a nation of men of honour and of cavaliers. I thought ten thousand swords must have leaped from their scabbards to avenge even a look that threatened her with insult. But the

age of chivalry is gone. That of sophisters, economists, and calculators has succeeded. Ibid. Vol. iii. p. 331.

The unbought grace of life, the cheap defence. of nations, the nurse of manly sentiment and heroic enterprise, is gone.

Ibid.

That chastity of honour which felt a stain like a wound. Vol. iii. p. 332.

Ibid.

1 Mr. Breen, in his Modern English Literature, says: "This remarkable thought, Alison, the historian, has turned to good account; it occurs so often in his disquisitions, that he seems to have made it the staple of all wisdom and the basis of every truth."

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