12. In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill, GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 13. With words of learned length, and thund'ring sound. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 14. Too deep for his hearers, still went on refining, And thought of convincing, while they thought of dining. 15. The bookful blockhead, ignorantly read, 16. Be silent always, when you doubt your sense, And speak, tho' sure, with seeming diffidence. POPE. POPE'S Essay on Criticism. 17. A dearth of words a woman need not fear; 18. Talking, she knew not why, and car'd not what. 19. If, in talking from morning till night, A sign of our wisdom there be, The swallows are wiser by right, For they prattle much faster than we. YOUNG. BYRON'S Beppo. MOORE'S Nicostratus. 20. And there's one rare, strange virtue in their speeches, The secret of their mastery-they are short. HALLECK. 1. The vain coquette each suit disdains, 2. Who hath not heard coquettes complain GAY's Fables. GAY'S Fables. 3. Nymph of the mincing mouth, and languid eye, DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. 4. Such is your old coquette, who can't say "No," And won't say "Yes ;" and keeps you on and offing On a lee shore, till it begins to blow; Then sees your heart wreck'd with an inward scoffing : This works a world of sentimental woe, And sends new Werters yearly to their coffin. 5. Would you teach her to love? For a time seem to rove; At first she may frown in a pet; But leave her awhile, She shortly will smile, BYRON'S Don Juan. And then you may win your coquette. BYRON. 6. Can I again that look recall, That once could make me die for thee? 7. Still panting o'er a crowd to reign, More joy it gives to woman's breast, 8. Bright as the sun her eyes the gazers strike, 9. There's danger in the dazzling eye, That woos thee with its witching smile; Another, when thou art not by, Those beaming looks would fain beguile. 10. But why, O, why on all thus squander MOORE. POPE. MRS. OSGOOD. C. F. HOFFMAN. COUNTRY-PATRIOTISM. 1. A great man struggling in the storms of fate, 2. But where to find the happiest spot below, Boasts of his golden sands and palmy wine ;- POPE. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 3. Whither where equinoctial fervours glow, Or winter wraps the polar land in snow. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 150 COUNTRY - PATRIOTISM. 4. Gay sprightly land of mirth and social joy! GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 5. The wandering mariner, whose eye explores 6. Then said the mother to her son, "Come with it, when the battle's done, 7. Breathes there a man with soul so dead, J. MONTGOMERY. R. MONTGOMERY. SCOTT's Last Minstrel. 8. Wert thou all that I wish thee, great, glorious and free, MOORE. 9. Carolina, Carolina! Heaven's blessings attend her! 10. Let Spain boast the treasures that grow in her mines; 11. Our bosoms with rapture beat high at thy name, Thy health is our transport-our triumph thy fame; Like our sires, with our swords we 'll support thy renown; 12. On, on to the just and glorious strife, With your swords your freedom shielding; But die at least, unyielding! 13. Sweet clime of my kindred, blest land of my birth! 14. Oh heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save! CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. 15. Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And freedom shriek'd, as Kosciusko fell! 16. CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. They never fail who die may In a great cause: the block soak their gore, But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts The world at last to freedom. BYRON'S Marino Faliero. |