Come then, expressive silence, muse His praise. Hymn. Line 118. A pleasing land of drowsyhed it was, The Castle of Indolence. Canto i. Stanza 6. Stanza 26. Placed far amid the melancholy main. Stanza 30. Scoundrel maxim. Ibid. A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. Stanza 68. A little, round, fat, oily man of God. Stanza 69. I care not, Fortune, what you me deny: You cannot rob me of free Nature's grace; Through which Aurora shows her brightening face; Health is the vital principle of bliss, Canto ii. Stanza 3. Stanza 55. For ever, Fortune, wilt thou prove And, when we meet a mutual heart, Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue O Sophonisba! Sophonisba, O! Song. Coriolanus. Act iii. Sc. 3. Sophonisba. Act iii. Sc. 2. When Britain first, at Heaven's command, This was the charter of her land, And guardian angels sung the strain: Rule, Britannia! Britannia rules the waves! Alfred. Act ii. Sc. 5. 1 The line was altered, after the second edition, to "O Sophonisba! I am wholly thine." Quæris Alcidæ parem? 2 Nemo est nisi ipse. - Seneca, Hercules Furens, i. 1. And but herself admits no parallel. Massinger, Duke of Milan, Act iv. Sc. 3. MACKLIN.-OLDYS.-DODSLEY.-WESLEY. 305 CHARLES MACKLIN. 1690-1797. The law is a sort of hocus-pocus science, that smiles in yer face while it picks yer pocket; and the glorious uncertainty of it is of mair use to the professors than the justice of it. Love à la Mode. Act ii. Sc. 1. JAMES BRAMSTON. -1744. What 's not devoured by Time's devouring hand? But Titus said, with his uncommon sense, So Britain's monarch once uncovered sat, While Bradshaw bullied in a broad-brimmed hat. Ibid. WILLIAM B. RHODES. Who dares this pair of boots displace Must meet Bombastes face to face. Man of Taste. Bombastes Furioso. Bom. So have I heard on Afric's burning shore The grievous roar echoed along the shore. And the first lion thought the last a bore. Ibid. 1 I hope, said Colonel Titus, we shall not be wise as the frogs to whom Jupiter gave a stork for their king. To trust expedients with such a king on the throne would be just as wise as if there were a lion in the lobby, and we should vote to let him in and chain him, instead of fastening the door to keep him out. On the Exclusion Bill, January 7, 1681. DODDRIDGE.-FIELDING. 307 PHILIP DODDRIDGE. 1702-1751. Live while you live, the epicure would say, Epigram on his Family Arms. Awake, my soul; stretch every nerve, And press with vigour on: Zeal and Vigour in the Christian Race. HENRY FIELDING. 1707-1754. All nature wears one universal grin. Tom Thumb the Great. Act i. Sc. 1. Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Act i. Sc. 2. When I'm not thanked at all, I'm thanked enough. I've done my duty, and I've done no more. Act i. Sc. 3. Thy modesty 's a candle to thy merit. To sun myself in Huncamunca's eyes. Ibid. Ibid. 1 Dum vivimus vivamus. - From Ortin's Life of Doddridge. |