ANCESTRY - NOBILITY - TITLES, &c. ANCESTRY - NOBILITY - TITLES, &c. 1. True is, that whilome that good poet said, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is an honour to his title. 3. Man is a name of honour for a king; Additions take away from each chief thing. 4. A fool indeed has great need of a title; 5. Titles, the servile courtier's lean reward, 6. 7. FORD. CHAPMAN. CROWN. Sometimes the pay of virtue, but more oft With their authors in oblivion sunk Vain titles lie; the servile badges oft Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, 8. Should vice expect to 'scape rebuke, ROWE. THOMSON. THOMSON. 35 36 ANCESTRY - NOBILITY - TITLES, &c. 9. "T is from high life high characters are drawn; 10. More wise, more learn'd, more just, more everything. Many a Prince is worse, Who, proud of pedigree, is poor of purse. POPE. POPE'S Moral Essays. 11. How poor are all hereditary honours, Those poor possessions from another's deeds, 12. Boast not these titles of your ancestors, SHIRLEY. Brave youths; they're their possessions, not your own: BEN JONSON. 13. Superior worth your rank requires; 14. He stands for fame on his forefathers' feet, By heraldry proved valiant or discreet! GAY's Fables. YOUNG. 15. E'en to the dullest peasant standing by, Who fasten'd still on him a wandering eye, He seem'd the master spirit of the land. JOANNA BAILLIE. 16. Even to the delicacy of their hands There was resemblance, such as true blood wears. BYRON'S Don Juan. 17. "Your ancient house?" No more: I cannot see The wondrous merits of a pedigree: Nor of a proud display Of smoky ancestors in wax and clay. GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 18. What boots it on the lineal tree to trace, Through many a branch, the founders of our race- GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 19. Fond man! though all the honours of your line Bedeck your halls, and round your galleries shine ✓ In proud display, yet take this truth from meVirtue alone is true nobility! GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 20. How shall we call those noble, who disgrace 21. Whence his name GIFFORD'S Juvenal. And lineage long, it suits me not to say; And had been glorious in another day. BYRON'S Childe Harold. ANGER-TEMPER-RAGE. 1. Full many mischiefs follow cruel wrath, Abhorred bloodshed, and tumultuous strife, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 38 ANGER-TEMPER-RAGE. 2. Madness and anger differ but in this: This is short madness, that long anger is. ALEYN. 3. My rage is not malicious; like a spark Of fire by steel enforc'd out of a flint, It is no sooner kindled, but extinct. GOFFE. 4. O that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth ! Then with a passion would I shake the world. A full hot horse, who being allow'd his way, 6. Come not between the dragon and his wrath. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 7. Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turn'd. CONGREVE. 8. Those hearts that start at once into a blaze, And open all their rage, like summer storms At once discharg'd, grow cool again and calm. C. JOHNSON. 9. When anger rushes unrestrain'd to action, SAVAGE. 10. Then flash'd the living lightning from her eyes, 11. From loveless youth to unrespected age, No passion gratified, except her rage. POPE. POPE. 12. And to be wroth with one we love, Doth work like madness in the brain. 13. Of all bad things by which mankind are curs'd, Their own bad tempers surely are the worst. COLERIDGE. CUMBERLAND's Menander. 14. And her brow clear'd, but not her troubled eye; The wind was down, but still the sea ran high. BYRON'S Don Juan. 15. Patience! - Hence that word was made 16. All furious as a favour'd child BYRON'S Manfred. Balk'd of its wish; or, fiercer still, BYRON's Mazeppa. 17. For his was not that blind, capricious rage, BYRON'S Lara. 18. His brow was like the deep when tempest-tost. BYRON'S Vision of Judgment. 19. Foil'd, bleeding, breathless, furious to the last. |