1. -And his big manly voice, SHAKSPEARE. 2. When forty winters shall besiege your brow, 3. In me thou seest the twilight of such day, As after sunset fadeth in the west, SHAKSPEARE. Which by and by black night doth take away, SHAKSPEARE. 4. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPEARE. 5. Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet. DRYDEN. 6. Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. GOLDSMITH'S Deserted Village. 7. But grant to life some perquisites of joy; A time there is, when, like a thrice-told tale, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 8. Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, ROWE. 9. The hand of time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms; 10. Thus aged men, full loth and slow BROOME. Scott's Rokeby. 11. 'T is the sunset of life gives us mystical lore, And coming events cast their shadows before. CAMPBELL'S Pleasures of Hope. 12. Although my heart in earlier youth 13. And tho' I then might love thee more, -I left him in a green old age, MOORE. BYRON'S Werner. 14. Tho' time has touch'd her too, she still retains Much beauty and more majesty. BYRON. 15. A blighted trunk upon a cursed root, Which but supplies a feeling to decay. BYRON'S Manfred. 16. Now then the ills of age, its pains, its care, The drooping spirit for its fate prepare; 32 AMBITION - EMULATION - GLORY. And each affection failing, leaves the heart 17. An old, old man, with beard as white as snow. CRABBE. SPENSER. BAILEY'S Festus. 19. Why grieve that Time has brought so soon The sober age of manhood on? As idly should I weep at noon W. C. BRYANT. 20. The visions of my youth are past, Too bright, too beautiful to last. W. C. BRYANT. 20. Fled are the charms that graced that ivory brow; Where smiled a dimple, gapes a wrinkle now. ROBERT TREAT PAINE. AMBITION - EMULATION - GLORY. 1. Why then doth flesh, a bubble-glass of breath, Hunt after honour and advancement vain, And rear a trophy for devouring death, With so great labour and long-lasting pain As if life's days for ever should remain? SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. 2. Vaulting ambition overleaps itself. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Seeking the bubble Reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. SHAKSPEARE. 4. 'Tis like a circle in the water, 5. Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, SHAKSPEARE.. Who trod the ways of glory, 6. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, SHAKSPEARE. And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave, GRAY'S Elegy. 7. What various wants on power attend! 8. Who never felt the impatient throb, The longing of a heart that pants And reaches after distant good? 9. The fiery soul abhorr'd in Catiline, GAY's Fables. COWPER. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Oh sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise POPE'S Essay on Man. 11. Thus the fond moth around the taper plays, 34 AMBITION - EMULATION - GLORY. Ravish'd with joy, he wings his eager flight, 12. So much the raging thirst for fame exceeds TICKELL. The generous warmth which prompts to worthy deeds, GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 13. But glory's glory; and if you would find What that is ask the pig who sees the wind. BYRON'S Don Juan. 14. Longings sublime and aspirations high. BYRON'S Don Juan. 15. What millions died, that Cæsar might be great! CAMPBELL. 16. Press on! for it is godlike to unloose The spirit, and forget yourself in thought; 17. N. P. WILLIS. Ambition is the germ, THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH. 18. In some, ambition is the chief concern; For this they languish and for this they burn; 19. And man, the image of his God, is found, J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. |