The next-door neighbours, by the author of 'Temptation'.

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103. oldal - For talents mourn, untimely lost, When best employed and wanted most; Mourn genius high, and lore profound, And wit that loved to play, not wound ; And all the reasoning powers divine, To penetrate, resolve, combine ; And feelings keen, and fancy's glow, They sleep with him who sleeps below...
246. oldal - Just knows, and knows no more, her bible true, A truth the brilliant Frenchman never knew, And in that charter reads, with sparkling eyes, Her title to a treasure in the skies.
273. oldal - O good old man ; how well in thee appears The constant service of the antique world, When service sweat for duty, not for meed ! Thou art not for the fashion of these times, Where none will sweat, but for promotion; And having that, do choke their service up Even with the having: it is not so with thee.
310. oldal - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not. Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
81. oldal - As faire Aurora in her purple pall Out of the East the dawning day doth call. So forth she comes ; her brightnes brode doth blaze.
335. oldal - The unknown are better, than ill known : Rumour can ope the grave. Acquaintance I would have, but when 't depends Not on the number, but the choice of friends. Books should, not business, entertain the light, And sleep, as undisturbed...
190. oldal - It's a monstrous great bore, when a Gentleman feels A good appetite, thus to be kept from his meals !' It's in Bolton Hall, and the clock strikes Two ! And the scullions and cooks are themselves in 'a stew...
296. oldal - Bianca's love Made me exchange my state with Tranio, While he did bear my countenance in the town ; And happily I have arrived at last Unto the wished haven of my bliss.
44. oldal - twas a sad bitter pill — But gulp it he must, or else lose his Odille. The lord of Alsace therefore alter'd his plan, And said to himself, like a sensible man, " I can't do as I would, — I must do as I can ; It will not do to lie under any Saint's ban, For your hide, when you do, they all manage to tan ; So Count Herman must pick up some...
98. oldal - Neatly she dressed, nor vainly seemed to expect Pity for grief, or pardon for neglect ; But when her wearied parents sunk to sleep, She sought her place to meditate and weep : Then to her mind was all the past displayed, That faithful memory brings to sorrow's aid...

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