I take the world to be but as a stage,
Where net-maskt men doo play their personage.
DU BARTAS-Divine Weekes and Workes.
Dialogue Between Heraclitus and Democritus.
The world is a stage; each plays his part, and
receives his portion.

Found in WINSCHOOTEN'S Seeman. (1681)
BOHN'S Collection, 1857. JUVENAL-Satires.
III. 100. (Natio comoda est.)

(See also BALZAC, EDWARDS, HEYWOOD, MIDDLETON, MONTAIGNE, PETRONIUS, AS YOU LIKE IT, MERCHANT OF VENICE, TAGORE, also PALLADAS under LIFE)

Eppur si muove. (Epur.)
But it does move.

GALILEO-Before the Inquisition. (1632) Questioned by Karl von GEBLE; also by PROF. HEIS, who says it appeared first in the Dictionnaire Historique. Caen. (1789) GUISAR Says it was printed in the Lehrbuch der Geschichte. Wurtzburg. (1774) Conceded to be apocryphal. Earliest appearance in ABBÉ IRAILH-Querelle's Litteraires.

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Il mondo è un bel libro, ma poco serve a chi non lo sa leggere.

The world is a beautiful book, but of little use to him who cannot read it. GOLDONI-Pamela. I. 14.

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(See also NOYES)

Ill fares the land, to hastening ills a prey,
Where wealth accumulates, and men decay;
Princes and Lords may flourish, or may fade-
A breath can make them, as a breath has made-
But a bold peasantry, their country's pride,
When once destroy'd can never be supplied.
GOLDSMITH-Deserted Village. L. 51.
(See also DE CAUX)

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Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine! GOLDSMITH-Traveller. L. 50.

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Earth is but the frozen echo of the silent voice of God.

HAGEMAN-Silence.

3

L. 224. God is like a skillful Geometrician. SIR THOMAS BROWNE-Religio Medici. Pt. I. Sect. XVI. Nature geometrizeth and observeth order in all things. SIR THOMAS BROWNE Garden of Cyrus. Ch. III. The same idea appears in COMBER-Companion to the Temple. (Folio 1684) God acts the part of a Geometrician.

His gov

ernment of the World is no less mathematically exact than His creation of it. (Quoting Plato) JOHN NORRIS-Practical Discourses. II. P. 228. (Ed. 1693) "God Geometrizes" is quoted as a traditional sentence used by Plato, in PLUTARCH-Symposium. By a carpenter mankind was created and made, and by a carpenter mete it was that man should be repaired. ERASMUSParaphrase of St. Mark. Folio 42.

The world was all before them, where to choose Their place of rest, and Providence their guide. MILTON-Paradise Lost. Bk. XII. L. 646.

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Think, in this battered Caravanserai,
Whose Portals are alternate Night and Day,
How Sultán after Sultán with his Pomp
Abode his destined Hour, and went his way.
OMAR KHAYYAM-Rubaiyat. St. 17. FITZ-
GERALD'S trans.

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Love to his soul gave eyes; he knew things are not as they seem.

The dream is his real life: the world around him is the dream.

F. T. PALGRAVE-Dream of Maxim Wledig.

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Quod fere totus mundus exerceat histrionem. Almost the whole world are players. PETRONIUS ARBITER-Adapted from Fragments. No. 10. (Ed. 1790) Over the door of Shakespeare's theatre, The Globe, Bankside, London, was a figure of Hercules; under this figure was the above quotation. It probably suggested "All the world's a stage.'

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(See also DU BARTAS)

They who grasp the world, The Kingdom, and the power, and the glory, Must pay with deepest misery of spirit, Atoning unto God for a brief brightness. STEPHEN PHILLIPS-Herod. Act III.

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Alexander wept when he heard from Anaxarchus that there was an infinite number of worlds, and his friends asking him if any accident had befallen him he returned this answer: "Do you not think it is a matter worthy of lamentation that where there is such a vast multitude of them we have not yet conquered one?"

PLUTARCH-On the Tranquillity of the Mind. One world is not sufficient; he [Alexander the Great] fumes unhappy in the narrow bounds of this earth. Quoted from JUVENAL -Satires. X.

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But as the world, harmoniously confused, Where order in variety we see;

And where, tho' all things differ, all agree. POPE-Windsor Forest.

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(See also ROWLEY)

My soul, what's lighter than a feather? Wind. Than wind? The fire. And what than fire?

The mind.

What's lighter than the mind? A thought. Than thought?

This bubble world. What than this bubble? Nought.

QUARLES Emblems. Bk. I. 4.

(See also BACON, also HARLEIAN MS. under Wo

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MAN)

All nations and kindreds and people and tongues. Revelation. VII. 9.

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Le monde est le livre des femmes. The world is woman's book. ROUSSEAU.

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The worlde bie diffraunce ys ynn orderr founde. ROWLEY-The Tournament. Same idea in PASCAL-Pensées. BERNARDIN DE ST. PIERRE

If you choose to represent the various parts in life by holes upon a table, of different shapes,— some circular, some triangular, some square, some oblong, and the persons acting these parts by bits of wood of similar shapes, we shall generally find that the triangular person has got into the square hole, the oblong into the triangular, and a square person has squeezed himself into the round hole. The officer and the office, the doer and the thing done, seldom fit so exactly that we can say they were almost made for each other.

SYDNEY SMITH-Sketches of Moral Philosophy. P. 309.

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(See also BERKELEY)