5. Gnats are unnotic'd, wheresoe'er they fly, But eagles gaz'd upon with ev'ry eye. SHAKSPEARE. 6. In all thy humours, whether grave or mellow, 7. With warlike sword, and sing-song lay, Equipp'd alike for feast or fray. From MARTIAL. TRUMBULL'S Mc Fingal. 8. Though gay as mirth, as curious thought sedate; As elegance polite, as power elate; 9. Without, or with, offence to friends or foes, I sketch the world exactly as it goes. SAVAGE. BYRON'S Don Juan. 10. Cold-blooded, smooth-fac'd, placid miscreant. BYRON'S Don Juan. 11. Here's a sigh for those who love me, 12. With more capacity for love, than earth BYRON. BYRON'S Lara. 13. Quick in revenge, and passionately proud, The New Timon, 14. It was not mirth-for mirth she was too still; 15. The dark grave, The New Timon. Which knows all secrets, can alone reclaim HON. W. HERBERT. 16. Devoted, anxious, generous, void of guile, And with her whole heart's welcome in her smile. CHARITY. MRS. NORTON. 1. The secret pleasure of a generous act 2. In faith and hope the world will disagree, All must be false, that thwart this one great end; DRYDEN. POPE'S Essay on Man. 3. There are, while human miseries abound, 4. Let shining Charity adorn your zeal, 5. The truly generous is the truly wise; ARMSTRONG. AARON HILL. HOME'S Douglass. No fentur seek his merits to disclose for drew his trailte is from this dark aberde they alike in trambling hope repose The besome of his Father and her Geid CHASTITY-CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH, &c. 6. And learn the luxury of doing good. GOLDSMITH'S Traveller. 7. True charity, a plant divinely nurs'd, Its fruit on earth, its growth above the skies. 8. The drying up a single tear has more Cowper. 117 BYRON'S Don Juan. 9. Unfee'd, the calls of nature she obeys, Not led by profit, nor allur'd by praise. CRABBE. 10. Would'st thou from sorrow find a sweet relief, 11. The ear, inclin'd to ev'ry voice of grief, The hand that op'd spontaneous to relief, But sprang to man's warm instinct for mankind. 118 CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH-SMILE, &c. 2. And therein sate a lady, fresh and fair, Making sweet solace to herself alone; That to her might move cause of merriment; SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 3. Which, when I saw rehears'd, I must confess, Made my eyes water, but more merry tears The passion of loud laughter never shed. SHAKSPEARE. 4. With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, 5. Fantastic, frolicsome, and wild, With all the trinkets of a child. SHAKSPEARE. COTTON. 6. And the loud laugh, that spoke the vacant mind. GOLDSMITH. 7. In short, so provoking a devil was Dick, That we wish'd him full ten times a day at Old Nick; But, missing his mirth and agreeable vein, As often we wish'd to have Dick back again. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 8. Rare compound of oddity, frolic and fun, Who relish'd a joke, and rejoic'd in a pun. GOLDSMITH'S Retaliation. 9. Full well they laugh'd, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. CHEERFULNESS - MIRTH - SMILE, &c. 119 10. Eternal smiles his emptiness betray, As shallow streams run dimpling all the way. РОРЕ. 11. Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter, holding both his sides. MILTON. 12. Lively and gossiping, 13. Stor'd with the treasures of the tattling world, Nor purpose gay, Amusement, dance, or song, he sternly sees, COWPER. THOMSON'S Seasons. 14. For ever foremost in the ranks of fun, 15. Not oft to smile descendeth he, BYRON. And when he does, 't is sad to see BYRON'S Giaour. 16. And yet, methinks, the older that one grows, Inclines us more to laugh than scold, tho' laughter Leaves us so doubly serious shortly after. 17. He is so full of pleasing anecdote, BYRON'S Beppo. So rich, so gay, so poignant in his wit, JOANNA BAILlie. 18. Were it not worse than vain, to close our eyes DOUGLAS JERROLD's Magazine. |