hate).--SENECA: _De Ira, lib. ii. cap. 33._
Proprium humani ingenii est odisse quem læseris (It belongs to
human nature to hate those you have injured).--TACITUS: _Agricola,
42. 4._
Chi fa ingiuria non perdona mai (He never pardons those he
injures).--_Italian Proverb._
[276-1] There are not eight finer lines in Lucretius.--MACAULAY:
_History of England, chap. xviii._
[276-2] Whatever is, is right.--POPE: _Essay on Man, epistle i.
line 289._
[276-3] A green old age unconscious of decay.--POPE: _The Iliad,
book xxiii. line 929._
[277-1]
There is a pleasure in poetic pains.
Which only poets know.
COWPER: _The Timepiece, line 285._
[277-2] Lords of humankind.--GOLDSMITH: _The Traveller, line 327._
[277-3] Adore the hand that gives the blow.--POMFRET: _Verses to
his Friend._
[277-4] Among mortals second thoughts are the wisest.--EURIPIDES:
_Hippolytus, 438._
[277-5] See Butler, page 211.
[277-6] The precious porcelain of human clay.--BYRON: _Don Juan,
canto iv. stanza 11._
[277-7] Give ample room and verge enough.--GRAY: _The Bard, ii.
1._
[277-8] Whistling aloud to bear his courage up.--BLAIR: _The
Grave, line 58._
[277-9]
Le véritable Amphitryon
Est l'Amphitryon où l'on dîne
(The true Amphitryon is the Amphitryon where we dine).
MOLIÈRE: _Amphitryon, act iii. sc. 5._
EARL OF ROSCOMMON. 1633-1684.
Remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
_Essay on Translated Verse. Line 87._
And choose an author as you choose a friend.
_Essay on Translated Verse. Line 96._
Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.
_Essay on Translated Verse. Line 113._
The multitude is always in the wrong.
_Essay on Translated Verse. Line 184._
My God, my Father, and my Friend,
Do not forsake me at my end.
_Translation of Dies Iræ._
THOMAS KEN. 1637-1711.
Praise God, from whom all blessings flow!
Praise Him, all creatures here below!
Praise Him above, ye heavenly host!
Praise Father, Son, and Holy Ghost!
_Morning and Evening Hymn._
SIR JOHN POWELL. ---- -1713.
Let us consider the reason of the case. For nothing is law that
is not reason.[278-1]
_Coggs vs. Bernard, 2 Lord Raymond, 911._
FOOTNOTES:
[278-1] See Coke, page 24.
ISAAC NEWTON. 1642-1727.
I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I
seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and
diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a
prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay
all undiscovered before me.[278-2]
_Brewster's Memoirs of Newton. Vol. ii. Chap. xxvii._
FOOTNOTES:
[278-2] See Milton, page 241.
EARL OF ROCHESTER. 1647-1680.
Angels listen when she speaks:
She 's my delight, all mankind's wonder;
But my jealous heart would break
Should we live one day asunder.
_Song._
Here lies our sovereign lord the king,
Whose word no man relies on;
He never says a foolish thing,
Nor ever does a wise one.
_Written on the Bedchamber Door of Charles II._
And ever since the Conquest have been fools.
_Artemisia in the Town to Chloe in the Country._
For pointed satire I would Buckhurst choose,
The best good man with the worst-natured muse.[279-1]
_An allusion to Horace, Satire x. Book i._
A merry monarch, scandalous and poor.
_On the King._
It is a very good world to live in,
To lend, or to spend, or to give in;
But to beg or to borrow, or to get a man's own,
It is the very worst world that ever was known.[279-2]
FOOTNOTES:
[279-1] Thou best-humour'd man with the worst-humour'd
muse!--GOLDSMITH: _Retaliation. Postscript._
[279-2] These last four lines are attributed to Rochester.
SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE. 1649-1720.
Of all those arts in which the wise excel,
Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well.
_Essay on Poetry._
There 's no such thing in Nature; and you 'll draw
A faultless monster which the world ne'er saw.[279-3]
_Essay on Poetry._
Read Homer once, and you can read no more;
For all books else appear so mean, so poor,
Verse will seem prose; but still persist to read,
And Homer will be all the books you need.
_Essay on Poetry._
FOOTNOTES:
[279-3] See Suckling, page 257.
THOMAS OTWAY. 1651-1685.
O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee
To temper man: we had been brutes without you.
Angels are painted fair, to look like you:
There 's in you all that we believe of heaven,--
Amazing brightness, purity, and truth,
Eternal joy, and everlasting love.
_Venice Preserved. Act i. Sc. 1._
Dear as the vital warmth that feeds my life;
Dear as these eyes, that weep in fondness o'er thee.[280-1]
_Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 1._
And die with decency.
_Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 3._
What mighty ills have not been done by woman!
Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?--A woman!
Who lost Mark Antony the world?--A woman!
Who was the cause of a long ten years' war,
And laid at last old Troy in ashes?--Woman!
Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman![280-2]
_The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1._
Let us embrace, and from this very moment, vow an eternal misery
together.[280-3]
_The Orphan. Act iv. Sc. 2._
FOOTNOTES:
[280-1] See Shakespeare, page 112.
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes;
Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
GRAY: _The Bard, part i. stanza 3._
[280-2]
O woman, woman! when to ill thy mind
Is bent, all hell contains no fouler fiend.
POPE: _Homer's Odyssey, book xi. line 531._
[280-3] Let us swear an eternal friendship.--FRERE: _The Rovers,
act i. sc. 1._
ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN. 1653-1716.
I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted
to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the
laws of a nation.
_Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc._
NATHANIEL LEE. 1655-1692.
Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk![281-1]
_Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3._
Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace,
That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him.
_Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3._
When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war.
_Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2._
'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way.[281-2]
_Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2._
Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!
_Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2._
FOOTNOTES:
[281-1] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 197.
[281-2] "Leads the way" in the stage editions, which contain
various interpolations, among them--
See the conquering hero comes!
Sound the trumpet, beat the drums!--
which was first used by Handel in "Joshua," and afterwards
transferred to "Judas Maccabæus." The text of both oratorios was
written by Dr. Thomas Morell, a clergyman.
JOHN NORRIS. 1657-1711.
How fading are the joys we dote upon!
Like apparitions seen and gone.
But those which soonest take their flight
Are the most exquisite and strong,--
Like angels' visits, short and bright;[281-3]
Mortality 's too weak to bear them long.
_The Parting._
FOOTNOTES:
[281-3] Like those of angels, short and far between.--BLAIR: _The
Grave, line 588._
Like angel visits, few and far between.--CAMPBELL: _Pleasures of
Hope, part ii. line 378._
JOHN DENNIS. 1657-1734.
A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a
pocket.
_The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. li. Page 324._
They will not let my play run; and yet they steal my
thunder.[282-1]
FOOTNOTES:
[282-1] Our author, for the advantage of this play ("Appius and
Virginia"), had invented a new species of thunder, which was
approved of by the actors, and is the very sort that at present is
used in the theatre. The tragedy however was coldly received,
notwithstanding such assistance, and was acted but a short time.
Some nights after, Mr. Dennis, being in the pit at the
representation of "Macbeth," heard his own thunder made use of;
upon which he rose in a violent passion, and exclaimed, with an
oath, that it was his thunder. "See," said he, "how the rascals
use me! They will not let my play run, and yet they steal my
thunder!"--_Biographia Britannica, vol. v. p. 103._
THOMAS SOUTHERNE. 1660-1746.
Pity 's akin to love.[282-2]
_Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count
ne'er made a man.[282-3]
_Sir Anthony Love. Act ii. Sc. 1._
FOOTNOTES:
[282-2] See Beaumont and Fletcher, page 198.
[282-3] I weigh the man, not his title; 't is not the king's stamp
can make the metal better.--WYCHERLEY: _The Plaindealer, act i.
sc. 1._
A prince can make a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest man 's aboon his might:
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.
BURNS: _For a' that and a' that._
MATHEW HENRY.[282-4] 1662-1714.
The better day, the worse deed.[282-5]
_Commentaries. Genesis iii._
Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that
are but skin-deep.[282-6]
_Commentaries. Genesis iii._
So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did
not only sigh but roar.[283-1]
_Commentaries. Job iii._
To their own second thoughts.[283-2]
_Commentaries. Job vi._
He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel.
_Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi._
Our creature comforts.
_Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii._
None so deaf as those that will not hear.[283-3]
_Commentaries. Psalm lviii._
They that die by famine die by inches.
_Commentaries. Psalm lix._
To fish in troubled waters.
_Commentaries. Psalm lx._
Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore
called the staff of life.[283-4]
_Commentaries. Psalm civ._
Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves.
_Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii._
It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the
Gospel is good fare."
_Commentaries. Isaiah xxx._
Blushing is the colour of virtue.[283-5]
_Commentaries. Jeremiah iii._
It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast
themselves most of their being near to the Church.[283-6]
_Commentaries. Jeremiah vii._
None so blind as those that will not see.[283-7]
_Commentaries. Jeremiah xx._
Not lost, but gone before.[283-8]
_Commentaries. Matthew ii._
Those that are above business.
_Commentaries. Matthew xx._
Better late than never.[284-1]
_Commentaries. Matthew xxi._
Saying and doing are two things.
_Commentaries. Matthew xxi._
Judas had given them the slip.
_Commentaries. Matthew xxii._
After a storm comes a calm.
_Commentaries. Acts ix._
Men of polite learning and a liberal education.
_Commentaries. Acts x._
It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good
to be true.
_Commentaries. Timothy i._
It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of
any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business
they are to be entrusted with.[284-2]
_Commentaries. Timothy iii._
FOOTNOTES:
[282-4] Mathew Henry says of his father, Rev. Philip Henry
(1631-1691): "He would say sometimes, when he was in the midst of
the comforts of this life, 'All this, and heaven too!'"--_Life of
Rev. Philip Henry, p. 70._ (London, 1830.)
[282-5] See Middleton, page 172.
[282-6] See Venning, page 262.
[283-1] Nature says best; and she says, Roar!--EDGEWORTH: _Ormond,
chap. v._ (King Corny in a paroxysm of gout.)
[283-2] I consider biennial elections as a security that the sober
second thought of the people shall be law.--FISHER AMES: _On
Biennial Elections, 1788._
[283-3] See Heywood, page 19.
[283-4] Bread is the staff of life.--SWIFT: _Tale of a Tub._
Corne, which is the staffe of life.--WINSLOW: _Good Newes from New
England, p. 47._ (London, 1624.)
The stay and the staff, the whole staff of bread.--_Isaiah iii.
1._
[283-5] Diogenes once saw a youth blushing, and said: "Courage, my
boy! that is the complexion of virtue."--DIOGENES LAERTIUS:
_Diogenes, vi._
[283-6] See Heywood, page 12.
[283-7] There is none so blind as they that won't see.--SWIFT:
_Polite Conversation, dialogue iii._
[283-8] Literally from Seneca, _Epistola lxiii. 16._
Not dead, but gone before.--ROGERS: _Human Life._
[284-1] See Heywood, page 13.
[284-2] See Appendix, page 859.
RICHARD BENTLEY. 1662-1742.
It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of
reputation but by himself.
_Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90._
"Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as
anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens
not to like.[284-3]
_Declaration of Rights._
The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms.[284-4]
_Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147_ (1692).
FOOTNOTES:
[284-3] See Dryden, page 276.
[284-4] That fortuitous concourse of atoms.--_Review of Sir Robert
Peel's Address. Quarterly Review, vol. liii. p. 270_ (1835).
In this article a party was described as a fortuitous concourse of
atoms,--a phrase supposed to have been used for the first time
many years afterwards by Lord John Russell.--_Croker Papers, vol.
ii. p. 54._
HENRY CAREY. 1663-1743.
God save our gracious king!
Long live our noble king!
God save the king!
_God save the King._
Aldeborontiphoscophornio!
Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?
_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._
His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.
_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._
Let the singing singers
With vocal voices, most vociferous,
In sweet vociferation out-vociferize
Even sound itself.
_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1._
To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos,
Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded.
_Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3._
Go call a coach, and let a coach be called;
And let the man who calleth be the caller;
And in his calling let him nothing call
But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!"
_Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4._
Genteel in personage,
Conduct, and equipage;
Noble by heritage,
Generous and free.
_The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2._
What a monstrous tail our cat has got!
_The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1._
Of all the girls that are so smart,
There 's none like pretty Sally.[285-1]
_Sally in our Alley._
Of all the days that 's in the week
I dearly love but one day,
And that 's the day that comes betwixt
A Saturday and Monday.
_Sally in our Alley._
FOOTNOTES:
[285-1]
Of all the girls that e'er was seen,
There 's none so fine as Nelly.
SWIFT: _Ballad on Miss Nelly Bennet._
DANIEL DEFOE. 1663-1731.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The Devil always builds a chapel there;[286-1]
And 't will be found, upon examination,
The latter has the largest congregation.
_The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1._
Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
_The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1._
FOOTNOTES:
[286-1] See Burton, page 192.
TOM BROWN. 1663-1704.
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell,
The reason why I cannot tell;
But this alone I know full well,
I do not love thee, Doctor Fell.[286-2]
_Laconics._
To treat a poor wretch with a bottle of Burgundy, and fill his
snuff-box, is like giving a pair of laced ruffles to a man that
has never a shirt on his back.[286-3]
_Laconics._
In the reign of Charles II. a certain worthy divine at Whitehall
thus addressed himself to the auditory at the conclusion of his
sermon: "In short, if you don't live up to the precepts of the
Gospel, but abandon yourselves to your irregular appetites, you
must expect to receive your reward in a certain place which 't is
not good manners to mention here."[287-1]
_Laconics._
FOOTNOTES:
[286-2] A slightly different version is found in Brown's Works
collected and published after his death:--
Non amo te, Sabidi, nec possum dicere quare;
Hoc tantum possum dicere, non amo te
(I do not love thee, Sabidius, nor can I say why; this only I can
say, I do not love thee).--MARTIAL: _Epigram i. 33._
Je ne vous aime pas, Hylas;
Je n'en saurois dire la cause,
Je sais seulement une chose;
C'est que je ne vous aime pas.
BUSSY: _Comte de Rabutin._ (1618-1693.)
[286-3] Like sending them ruffles, when wanting a
shirt.--SORBIENNE (1610-1670).
GOLDSMITH: _The Haunch of Venison._
[287-1] Who never mentions hell to ears polite.--POPE: _Moral
Essays, epistle iv. line 149._
MATTHEW PRIOR. 1664-1721.
All jargon of the schools.[287-2]
_I am that I am. An Ode._
Our hopes, like towering falcons, aim
At objects in an airy height;
The little pleasure of the game
Is from afar to view the flight.[287-3]
_To the Hon. Charles Montague._
From ignorance our comfort flows.
The only wretched are the wise.[287-4]
_To the Hon. Charles Montague._
Odds life! must one swear to the truth of a song?
_A Better Answer._
Be to her virtues very kind;
Be to her faults a little blind.
_An English Padlock._
That if weak women went astray,
Their stars were more in fault than they.
_Hans Carvel._
The end must justify the means.
_Hans Carvel._
And thought the nation ne'er would thrive
Till all the whores were burnt alive.
_Paulo Purganti._
They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.[287-5]
_Upon a passage in the Scaligerana._
That air and harmony of shape express,
Fine by degrees, and beautifully less.[287-6]
_Henry and Emma._
Now fitted the halter, now traversed the cart,
And often took leave, but was loth to depart.[288-1]
_The Thief and the Cordelier._
Nobles and heralds, by your leave,
Here lies what once was Matthew Prior;
The son of Adam and of Eve:
Can Bourbon or Nassau claim higher?[288-2]
_Epitaph. Extempore._
Soft peace she brings; wherever she arrives
She builds our quiet as she forms our lives;
Lays the rough paths of peevish Nature even,
And opens in each heart a little heaven.
_Charity._
His noble negligences teach
What others' toils despair to reach.
_Alma. Canto ii. Line 7._
Till their own dreams at length deceive 'em,
And oft repeating, they believe 'em.
_Alma. Canto iii. Line 13._
Abra was ready ere I called her name;
And though I called another, Abra came.
_Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book ii. Line 364._
For hope is but the dream of those that wake.[288-3]
_Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 102._
Who breathes must suffer, and who thinks must mourn;
And he alone is bless'd who ne'er was born.
_Solomon on the Vanity of the World. Book iii. Line 240._
A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.[289-1]
_The Wandering Pilgrim._
FOOTNOTES:
[287-2] Noisy jargon of the schools.--POMFRET: _Reason._
The sounding jargon of the schools.--COWPER: _Truth, line 367._
[287-3]
But all the pleasure of the game
Is afar off to view the flight.
_Variations in a copy dated 1692._
[287-4] See Davenant, page 217.
[287-5] See Jonson, page 180. Also Dryden, page 268.
[287-6] Fine by defect, and delicately weak.--POPE: _Moral Essays,
epistle ii. line 43._
[288-1] As men that be lothe to departe do often take their leff.
[John Clerk to Wolsey.]--ELLIS: _Letters, third series, vol. i. p.
262._
"A loth to depart" was the common term for a song, or a tune
played, on taking leave of friends. TARLTON: _News out of
Purgatory_ (about 1689). CHAPMAN: _Widow's Tears._ MIDDLETON: _The
Old Law, act iv. sc. 1._ BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: _Wit at Several
Weapons, act ii. sc. 2._
[288-2] The following epitaph was written long before the time of
Prior:--
Johnnie Carnegie lais heer,
Descendit of Adam and Eve.
Gif ony con gang hieher,
Ise willing give him leve.
[288-3] This thought is ascribed to Aristotle by Diogenes Laertius
(_Aristotle, v. xi._), who, when asked what hope is, answered,
"The dream of a waking man." Menage, in his "Observations upon
Laertius," says that Stobæus (_Serm. cix._) ascribes it to Pindar,
while Ælian (_Var. Hist. xiii. 29_) refers it to Plato.
Et spes inanes, et velut somnia quædam, vigilantium (Vain hopes
are like certain dreams of those who wake).--QUINTILIAN: _vi. 2,
27._
[289-1] A cup of cold Adam from the next purling stream.--TOM
BROWN: _Works, vol. iv. p. 11._
JOHN POMFRET. 1667-1703.
We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe,
And still adore the hand that gives the blow.[289-2]
_Verses to his Friend under Affliction._
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes.
_Verses to his Friend under Affliction._
FOOTNOTES:
[289-2] See Dryden, page 277.
JONATHAN SWIFT. 1667-1745.
I 've often wish'd that I had clear,
For life, six hundred pounds a year;
A handsome house to lodge a friend;
A river at my garden's end;
A terrace walk, and half a rood
Of land set out to plant a wood.
_Imitation of Horace, Book ii. Sat. 6._
So geographers, in Afric maps,
With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs
Place elephants for want of towns.[289-3]
_Poetry, a Rhapsody._
Where Young must torture his invention
To flatter knaves, or lose his pension.
_Poetry, a Rhapsody._
Hobbes clearly proves that every creature
Lives in a state of war by nature.
_Poetry, a Rhapsody._
So, naturalists observe, a flea
Has smaller fleas that on him prey;
And these have smaller still to bite 'em;
And so proceed _ad infinitum_.[290-1]
_Poetry, a Rhapsody._
Libertas et natale solum:
Fine words! I wonder where you stole 'em.
_Verses occasioned by Whitshed's Motto on his Coach._
A college joke to cure the dumps.
_Cassinus and Peter._
'T is an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery 's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men of wit
Will condescend to take a bit.
_Cadenus and Vanessa._
Hail fellow, well met.[290-2]
_My Lady's Lamentation._
Big-endians and small-endians.[290-3]
_Gulliver's Travels. Part i. Chap. iv. Voyage to Lilliput._
And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears
of corn, or two blades of grass, to grow upon a spot of ground
where only one grew before, would deserve better of mankind, and
do more essential service to his country, than the whole race of
politicians put together.
_Gulliver's Travels. Part ii. Chap. vii. Voyage to Brobdingnag._
He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams
out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically
sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
_Gulliver's Travels. Part iii. Chap. v. Voyage to Laputa._
It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second
place have an undoubted title to the first.
_Tale of a Tub. Dedication._
Seamen have a custom, when they meet a whale, to fling him out an
empty tub by way of amusement, to divert him from laying violent
hands upon the ship.[291-1]
_Tale of a Tub. Preface._
Bread is the staff of life.[291-2]
_Tale of a Tub. Preface._
Books, the children of the brain.
_Tale of a Tub. Sect. i._
As boys do sparrows, with flinging salt upon their tails.[291-3]
_Tale of a Tub. Sect. vii._
He made it a part of his religion never to say grace to his meat.
_Tale of a Tub. Sect. xi._
How we apples swim![291-4]
_Brother Protestants._
The two noblest things, which are sweetness and light.
_Battle of the Books._
The reason why so few marriages are happy is because young ladies
spend their time in making nets, not in making cages.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects._
Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects._
A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
_Thoughts on Various Subjects._
If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would
not have given them to such a scoundrel.
_Letter to Miss Vanbromrigh, Aug. 12, 1720._
Not die here in a rage, like a poisoned rat in a hole.
_Letter to Bolingbroke, March 21, 1729._
A penny for your thoughts.[292-1]
_Introduction to Polite Conversation._
Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl?
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
The sight of you is good for sore eyes.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
'T is as cheap sitting as standing.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
I hate nobody: I am in charity with the world.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
I won't quarrel with my bread and butter.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
She 's no chicken; she 's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be
a day.
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She looks as if butter wou'dn't melt in her mouth.[292-2]
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
If it had been a bear it would have bit you.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitchfork.
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
I mean you lie--under a mistake.[292-3]
_Polite Conversation. Dialogue i._
_Lord M._ What religion is he of?
_Lord Sp._ Why, he is an Anythingarian.
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