AUTHORS-continued. AUTHORS-AUTHORSHIP. Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, 31 To buried merit raise the tardy bust. Johnson, V. H. W. 159. We that live to please, must please to live. Dr. Johnson, Prologue. Some write a narrative of wars and feats, Cowper, Task, III. 139. None but an author knows an author's cares, Cowper, Prog. of E. 516. Byron, Don Juan. Without, or with, offence to friends or foes, AUTHORSHIP-see Poems. He that writes, Byron, Eng. B. 51. Or makes a feast, more certainly invites Howard, Surpr. Prologue. Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Sheffield, Duke of Buckingham, E. P. Let authors write for glory or reward, Truth is well paid, when she is sung and heard. Bp. Corbet. This I hold A secret worth its weight in gold To those who write as I write now; Not to mind where they go, or how, Through ditch, through bog, o'er hedge and stile; And keep a passage fair and plain, Churchill 32 AUTHORSHIP-AUTUMN. AUTHORSHIP-continued One hates an author that's all author, fellows These unquench'd snuffings of the midnight taper. Beppo, 75. His wondrous journey to some foreign court, And spawns his quarto, and demands your praise; Death to his publisher, to him 'tis sport. Byron, D. J. v. 52 Our doctor thus, with stuff'd sufficiency Of all omnigenous omnisciency, Began (as who would not begin, Folios, quartos, large and small sorts. Some steal a thought, And clip it round the edge, and challenge him AUTUMN. Moore. Bailey, Festus. Donne, Not Spring or Summer's beauty hath such grace Thrice happy time, Best portion of the various year, in which 'Tis past! no more the Summer blooms! Behold, congenial Autumn comes, What time thy holy whispers breathe, Phillips, Cider, b. 2. And wears the verdure of decay, O, let me wander through the sounding woods! Logan. Season of mist and mellow fruitfulness! Close bosom friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run; Keats. AVARICE-see Covetousness. AVARICE. When all sins are old in us, And go upon crutches, covetousness 31 Dekker, Honest Wh. p. 2. The rule, get money, still get money, boy, No matter by what means. Ben Jonson, Every Man, 11. 3. To gain poor seeming goods which, being got, Or, if they stay, they furrow thoughts the deeper; And being kept with care, they lose their careful keeper. That cos'ning vice, although it seems to keep Quarles. May, Old Couple. But the base miser starves amidst his store, And hence one master passion in the breast, Dryden. Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. Pope, E.M.11.131. Biches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Pope, M.E.11.169. Wealth in the gross is death, but life diffus'd, As poison heals, in just proportion us'd; In heaps, like ambergris, a stink it lies, But well dispers'd, is incense to the skies. Pope, M.E.111.234. 'Tis strange the miser should his cares employ To gain those riches he can ne'er enjoy ; Is it less strange the prodigal should waste His wealth to purchase what he ne'er can taste? Pope, M.E.iv.3. Some, o'er-enamour'd of their bags, run mad, Oh cursed lust of gold! when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds; Young, N.T. First starv'd in this, then damn'd in that to come. Blair, Grave. The lust of gold succeeds the lust of conquest: Dr. Johnson, Irene. The lust of gold, unfeeling and remorseless! poor; Peter Pindar D 34 AVARICE-AWKWARDNESS. AVARICE-continued. May his soul be plung'd In ever-burning floods of liquid gold, And be his avarice the fiend that damns him! Murphy, Alzuma. The beggar's vice, which can but overwhelm So for a good old-gentlemanly vice, Byron Vis. of J. Byron, Don J. 1. 216. The love of gold, that meanest rage, As well the noble savage of the field Wild muddy boars defile the cleanly ermine, E. Moore. Or vultures sort with doves; as I with thee. Lee, Mithridates. AWKWARDNESS. What's a fine person, or a beauteous face, Unless deportment gives them decent grace? The curious eye their awkward movement tires; They seem like puppets led about by wires. Churchill, Rosc. Of moving gracefully, or standing still, 6. Rosciad BABES. BABES-BANISHMENT. He that of greatest works is finisher. Oft does them by the weakest minister; BAITS. 335 Sh. All's W. II. 1. Sweet words I grant, baits and allurements sweet, Fairfax. Prior. Of all that did chance, 'twere a long tale to tell, The music, and the banquet, and the wine- The eye like what it circled; the thin robes, Of the fair forms which terminate so well All the delusion of the dizzy scene, Its false and true enchantments-Art and Nature. I saw her at a county ball; There when the sound of flute and fiddle Gave signal sweet in that old hall, Of hands across and down the middie. Hers was the subtlest spell by far Byron, Mar. Fal Of all that sets young liearts romancing; And when she danced--oh, heaven, her dancing! BANISHMENT. Banished? Praed, Fancy Ball. O friar, the damned use that word in hell; Sh. Rom. 111. 3. Dryden. |