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Ev'n as one heat another heat expels,

Or as one nail by strength drives out another;
So the remembrance of my former love,

Is by a newer object quite forgotten.

2378 Look, as I blow this feather from my face, And as the air blows it to me again; Obeying with my wind, when I do blow, And yielding to another when it blows; Commanded always by the greater gust: Such is the lightness of you common men. 2379 Wives in their husbands' absences grow subtler, And daughters sometimes run off with the butler. 2380

Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act ii. Sc. 4

Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1

Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 22

There are three things a wise man will not trust, -
The wind, the sunshine of an April day,
And woman's plighted faith.

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2381 Southey: Madoc. Pt. ii. Caradoc and Senena. Line 51.

INDEPENDENCE.

Bless'd are those

Whose blood and judgment are so well commingled
That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger

To sound what stop she please. Give me that man
That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him

In my heart's core, aye, in my heart of heart,
As I do thee.

2382

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2

The man who by his labor gets
His bread in independent state,
Who never begs, and seldom eats,
Himself can fix or change his fate.
2383
Slave to no sect, who takes no private road,
But locks thro' nature up to nature's God.

2384

Prior: The Old Gentry

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 331

Mail! independence, hail! heaven's next best gift,
To that of life and an immortal soul!
The life of life! that to the banquet high

And sober meal gives taste; to the bow'd roof
Fair-dream'd repose, and to the cottage charms.

2385

Thomson: Liberty. Pt. v. Line 124.

Thy spirit, Independence, let me share;
Lord of the lion-heart and eagle-eye,
Thy steps I follow with my bosom bare,
Nor heed the storm that howls along the sky.
2386

Smollett: Ode to independence

INDEPENDENCE-INDIFFERENCE.

Hail! independence! by true reason taught,
How few have known, and priz'd thee as they ought!
Some give thee up for riot; some, like boys,
Resign thee, in their childish moods, for toys;
Ambition some, some avarice, misleads,
And, in both cases, Independence bleeds.
2387

255

Churchill: Independence. Line 495.

Gather gear by ev'ry wile
That's justified by honor;
Not for to hide it in a hedge,
Nor for a train attendant;
But for the glorious privilege

Of being independent.

2388

Burns: Epistle to a Young Friend. St. 7.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me;
I have not flatter'd its rank breath,, nor bow'd
To its idolatries a patient knee,

Nor coin'd my cheek to smiles, nor cried aloud
In worship of an echo; in the crowd
They could not deem me one of such; I stood
Among them, but not of them.

2389

INDEX.

Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 113

Index-learning turns no student pale,

Yet holds the eel of science by the tail. 2390

INDIAN SUMMER.

To her bier

Comes the year

Pope: Dunciad. Bk. i. Line 279.

Not with weeping and distress, as mortals do,

But, to guide her way to it,

All the trees have torches lit.

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The time was that I hated thee;
And yet it is not that I bear thee love.
But since thou canst talk of love so well,
Thy company, which erst was irksome to me,
I will endure; and I'll employ thee too;
But do not look for further recompense.
2393

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act iii. Sc. 5.

What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba. 2394

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2

A primrose by a river's brim,
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.

2395

Wordsworth: Peter Bell. Pt. i St. 12

Shall I, wasting in despair,

Die because a woman's fair?
Or make pale my cheeks with care,
'Cause another's rosy are?
Be she fairer than the day,
Or the flow'ry meads in May,
If she be not so to me,

What care I how fair she be?
2396

George Wither: Shepherd's Resolution

Let ev'ry man enjoy his whim; What's he to me, or I to him. 2397

Churchill: Ghost. Bk. iv. Line 215.

I care for nobody, no, not I,
If nobody cares for me.

2398

Bickerstaff: Love in a Village. Act i. Sc. 3.

INDUSTRY- see Action, Activity, Decision, Perseverance.

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie,

Which we ascribe to Heav'n. The fated sky
Gives us free scope; only doth backward pull
Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.
2399

Shaks.: All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1.

The sweat of industry would dry, and die,
But for the end it works to.
2400

Shaks.: Cymbeline. Act iii. Sc. 6.

In every rank, or great or small, 'Tis industry supports us all. 2401

In works of labor, or of skill,

I would be busy too,

Gay: Fables. Pt. ii. Fable 8.

For Satan finds some mischief still
For idle hands to do.

2402

Watts: Hymns. No. xx.

Protected industry, careering far,
Detects the cause and cures the rage of war,
And sweeps,
with forceful arm, to their last graves,
Kings from the earth and pirates from the waves.

2403

INFANCY -see Childhood.

Joel Barlow: To Freedom.

Ere sin could blight, or sorrow fade,
Death came with friendly care;
The opening bud to heav'n convey'd,
And bade it blossom there.

2404

Coleridge: Epitaph on an Infant.

A babe in a house is a well-spring of pleasure.

2405

Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Education

INFANCY-INFIDELITY.

He that of greatest works is finisher,

Oft does them by the weakest minister;
So Holy Writ in babes hath judgment shown,
When judges have been babes.

257

2406
Shaks.: All's Well. Act ii Sc. 1.
INFIDELITY, IN RELIGION-see Bible, Religion.
Not, thus, our infidels th' eternal draw,

A God all o'er, consummate, absolute,
Full-orb'd, in his whole round of rays complete;
They set at odds Heav'n's jarring attributes;
And, with one excellence, another wound,
Maim Heav'n's perfection, break its equal beams,
Bid mercy triumph over God himself,
Undeified by their opprobrious praise:

A God all mercy is a God unjust.

2407

Young: Night Thoughts. Night iv. Line 225

If man loses all, when life is lost,
He lives a coward, or a fool expires.
A daring infidel (and such there are,
From pride, example, lucre, rage, revenge,
Or pure heroical defect of thought,)

Of all earth's madmen, most deserves a chain.
2408

Young: Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 193

A foe to God was ne'er true friend to man;
Some sinister intent taints all he does.

2409

Young: Night Thoughts. Night viii. Line 711 And shaped his weapon with an edge severe, Sapping a solemn creed with solemn sneer.

2410

Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 107

INFIDELITY, PERSONAL

see Frailty, Fickleness. O, she is fallen

Into a pit of ink! that the wide sea

Hath drops too few to wash her clean agair
And salt too little, which may season give
To her foul tainted flesh!
2411

Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1.

She's gone; I am abus'd; and my relief
Must be to loathe her.

2412

Shaks.: Othello. Act. Sc. 3

Another daughter dries a father's tears;
Another sister claims a brother's love;
An injured husband hath no other wife,
Save her who wrought him shame.
2413

Maturin: Bertram v. 2

O wretched is the dame, to whom the sound,
"Your lord will soon return," no pleasure brings.

2414

Maturin: Bertram 2. 5.

In her first passion, woman loves her lover;
In all the others all she loves is love,
Which grows a habit she can ne'er get over,
And fits her loosely-like an easy glove,

As you may find, whene'er you like to prove her.
2415
Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 3.

Though my many faults defaced me,
Could no other arm be found,

Than the one which once embraced me,
To inflict a cureless wound.

2416

Byron: Fare Thee Well

Oh! colder than the wind that freezes
Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd,
Is that congealing pang which seizes
The trusting bosom when betray'd.

2417

INFLUENCE.

Moore: Lalla Rookh. Fire Worshippers.

I shot an arrow into the air;

It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For, so swiftly it flew, the sight
Could not follow it in its flight.

I breathed a song into the air;
It fell to earth, I knew not where;
For who has sight so keen and strong,
That it can follow the flight of song?
Long, long afterward, in an oak
I found the arrow, still unbroke;
And the song, from beginning to end,
I found again in the heart of a friend.
2418

Longfellow: The Arrow and The Song

I am a part of all that I have met. 2419

Tennyson: Ulysses. Line 18

He thought all loveliness was lovelier,
She crowning it; all goodness credible,
Because of the great trust her goodness bred.
2420

George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. ii.
My work is mine,

And, heresy or not, if my hand slacked,

I should rob God ·

2421

since he is fullest good

George Eliot. Stradivarius

No life

Can be pure in its purpose and strong in its strife,
And all life not be purer and stronger thereby.

2499

Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt ii. Cauto vi. St 40

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