IGNORANCE. 1. The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity and pride and arrogance; 2. As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive the juggler's sleight, BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. But 't is some justice to ascribe to chance 4. By ignorance is pride increas'd; Those most assume who know the least: DAVENANT. GAY's Fables. 5. The lamb thy riot dooms to death to-day, POPE's Essay on Man. 6. Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise. 7. With just enough of learning to misquote. GRAY. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 336 IMAGINATION - IMMORTALITY, &c. 8. They cannot read, and so don't lisp in criticism; BYRON'S Beppo. 9. Who laughs to scorn the wisdom of the schools, And thinks the first of poets first of fools. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. IMAGINATION. - (See FANCY.) IMMORTALITY - SOUL. 1. One thinks the soul is air; another, fire; DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 2. But, as the sharpest eye discerneth nought, DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 3. Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns; The soul alone, that particle divine, Escapes the wreck of worlds, when all things fail. 4. The soul of man, a native of the skies, SOMERVILE'S Chase. High-born and free, her freedom should maintain Unsold, unmortgag'd for earth's little bribes. YOUNG's Night Thoughts. 5. 'Tis immortality - 't is that alone Amid life's pains, abasements, emptiness, YOUNG's Night Thoughts. 6. Let earth dissolve-yon ponderous orb descend, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. When nature ceases, thou shalt still remain, 8. The soul, secure in her existence, smiles The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds! TICKELL. ADDISON'S Cato. 9. It must be so: Plato, thou reasonest well: 10. The soul on earth is an immortal guest, ADDISON'S Cato. A spark which upward tends by nature's force; A drop, dissever'd from the boundless sea; A moment, parted from eternity; A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come; An exile, anxious for his native home. HANNAH MORE. 338 IMMORTALITY - IMPATIENCE, &c. 11. Cold in the dust this perish'd heart may lie, But that which warm'd it once shall never die. CAMPBELL. 12. But I have liv'd, and have not liv'd in vain : 13. BYRON'S Childe Harold. Immortality o'ersweeps All pains, all tears, all time, all fears and peals 14. A voice within us speaks that startling word- BYRON. IMPATIENCE-PATIENCE. 1. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry; R. H. DANA. But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, SHAKSPEARE. 2. For there was never yet philosopher, SHAKSPEARE. 3. How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? SHAKSPEARE. 4. That which in mean men we entitle patience, Is pale, cold cowardice in noble breasts. 5. 6. So tedious is this day, SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. Patience! preach it to the winds; OTWAY's Orphan. 7. O ye cold-hearted, frozen formalists! On such a theme 't is impious to be calm; 8. Patience and resignation are the pillars Of human peace on earth. YOUNG's Night Thoughts. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. But patience is the virtue of an ass, That trots beneath his burden, and is quiet. LORD LANSDOWNE. 10. Oh! how impatience gains upon the soul, When the long-promis'd hour of joy draws near! How slow the tardy moments seem to roll! What spectres rise of inconsistent fear! MRS. TIGHE'S Psyche. IMPRISONMENT - PRISON, &c. 1. A prison! heavens, I loathe the hated name, TOM BROWN. |