CARE A thousand cares his labouring breast revolves, 159 Pope, from Homer. From shore to shore why should we run, 'T will dodge the great man's train behind, If then thy soul rejoice to-day, Otway, from Horace. An angry care doth dwell In his dark breast and all gay forms expel.-Cowley. That spoils the dance of youthful blood, Strikes out the dimple from the cheek of mirth, But can the noble mind for ever brood, On heartless cares that squander life away, And cloud young Genius bright'ning into day? Blair. Campbell. The Being that is in the clouds and air, For the unoffending creatures whom he loves. Care, care, the cruel pain Which children bring upon the parents' soul, You laugh.-'I do not starve,'-not yet, not yet: In the mean time we've still grim care, (whose tooth Procter. 160 CARNAGE. CAUSE. CARNAGE. SUCH, a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable! and taste The savour of death from all things there that live. His ample maw, with human carnage filled, Nations with nations mixt confus'dly die, Milton. Pope. Addison. CAUSE. THIS is a cause which our ambition fills; A cause, in which our strength we should not waste In vain, like giants, who did heave at hills; 'Tis too unwieldy for the force of haste. Sir W. Davenant. Justness of cause is nothing, When things are risen to the point they are: "Tis either not examin'd or believ'd Among the warlike. Circumstance must make it probable Whether the cause's justness may command O madness of discourse! That cause sets up with and against thyself Suckling. Nabb. Milton. There is a chain of causes Linked to effects,-invincible necessity, That whate'er is could not but so have been. Dryden. Ere to thy cause and thee my heart inclin'd, CAUSE. CAUTION. CELERITY. There was on both sides much to say: Long bills, and answers stuff'd with lies, 161 Swift. CAUTION. You know how fickle common lovers are: You cautioned me against their charms Your lessons found the weakest part, Dryden. Aimed at the head, but reached the heart.-Swift. How shall our thoughts avoid the various snare? The various shapes thou pleasest to employ, When bent to hurt, and certain to destroy?-Prior. Who 'scapes the snare Once, has a certain caution to beware. Chapman. Man's caution often into danger turns, And his guard, falling, crushes him to death. CELERITY. CELERITY is never more admired Young. Than by the negligent. Shakspere. Thus with imagined wings, our swift scene flies In motion with no less celerity, Than that of thought. M Shakspere. 162 CENSURE. CEREMONY. CENSURE. GIVE every man thine ear, but few thy voice; Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. We must not stint Our necessary actions, in the fear To cope malicious censurers. Shakspere. Shakspere. Let such teach others, who themselves excel, Enough for half the greatest of these days, But censure's to be understood The public stamp heaven sets on all that's good and great. Swift. CEREMONY. CEREMONY was but devised at first To set a gloss on faint deeds-hollow welcomes, But where there is true friendship, there needs none. And what art thou, thou idol, ceremony? What is thy toll, O adoration? Art thou aught else but place, degree, and form, Wherein thou art less happy, being fear'd, Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery? O be sick, great greatness, And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. Shakspere. CEREMONY. CERTAINTY. Disrobe the images, 163 If you find them decked with ceremony.-Shakspere. The sauce to meat is ceremony, Where pomp and ceremonies entered not; Shakspere. Where greatness was shut out, and bigness nigh forgot. Dryden. Then Ceremony leads her bigots forth, With hollow form, and gesture, and grimace. Cowper. It was withal a highly-polished age, When stranger stranger met upon the way, And large professions made of humble service. Pollok. CERTAINTY-UNCERTAINTY. DOUBTING things go ill, often hurt more However I with thee have fixed my lot, Uncertainty! Fell demon of our fears! the human soul, Shakspere. Milton. That can support despair, supports not thee.-Mallet. |