GRATITUDE-INGRATITUDE. 1. I hate ingratitude more in a man Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, SHAKSPEARE. 2. The private wound is deepest. O time most curst! 'Mongst all foes, that a friend should be the worst! 3. How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is, To have a thankless child! SHAKSPEARE. 4. A grateful mind SHAKSPEARE. By owing owes not, but still pays, at once MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 5. What can I pay thee for this noble usage, 6. To scatter plenty o'er a smiling land, ROWE. GRAY'S Elegy. 7. He that has nature in him must be grateful; To the generous mind MADDEN. 8. The heaviest debt is that of gratitude, it. FRANKLIN. 9. If there be a crime Of deeper die than all the guilty train BROOKE. 308 GRAVE-GREATNESS, &c. 10. All should unite to punish the ungrateful; Ingratitude is treason to mankind. 11. Pride may cool what passion heated, 12. O, colder than the wind that freezes Founts, that but now in sunshine play'd, THOMSON. BYRON. MOORE'S Lalla Rookh. 13. And you, my dearest friend! how shall I thank you? What shall I do, to show my grateful heart? 1. Let Hercules himself do what he may: SHAKSPEARE. 2. What great ones do, the less will prattle of. SHAKSPEARE. 3. Small curs are not regarded when they grin; But great men tremble, when the lion roars. SHAKSPEARE. 4. The courtier's, scholar's, soldier's, eye, tongue, sword. 5. Vain pomp and glory of the world, I hate ye! SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 6. Authority intoxicates And makes mere sots of magistrates; 7. This leader was of knowledge great BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. POPE. 8. Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown. 9. A knight of high renown: Not Quixote bold, 10. As some tall cliff, that lifts its awful form, SOMERVILE. Swells from the vale, and midway leaves the storm; 11. He left a name, at which the world grew pale, To point a moral or adorn a tale. 12. A despot, big with power obtain'd by wealth, And that obtain❜d by rapine and by stealth. 13. What is station high? "T is a proud mendicant: it boasts and begs; GOLDSMITH. DR. JOHNSON. CowPER. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 310 GREATNESS - POWER. 14. Earth's highest station ends in "here he lies," And "dust to dust" concludes her noblest song. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 15. O greatness! thou art but a flattering dream, A watery bubble, lighter than the air. 16. Power! 't is the favourite attribute of gods, Who look with smiles on men who can aspire To copy them. 17. To reign is pleasant, tho' it be in hell; Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven. TRACY. MARTYN. MILTON'S Paradise Lost. 18. If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shin'd, POPE'S Essay on Man. 19. He, who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find 20. Their loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; He, who surpasses or subdues mankind, Must look down on the hate of those below. Tho' far above the sun of glory glow, And far beneath the earth and ocean spread, BYRON'S Childe Harold. -Leonidas, and Washington, Whose every battle-field is holy ground, Which breathes of nations sav'd, not worlds undone ; While the mere victors may appal or stun BYRON'S Don Juan. 21. The greatest chief, 22. Where may the wearied eye repose, BYRON'S Don Juan. Yes-one-the first,-the last, the best,- Whom envy dar'd not hate Bequeath'd the name of Washington, BYRON. 23. Whose game was empires, and whose stakes were thrones, Whose table, earth-whose dice were human bones. BYRON'S Age of Bronze. 24. While Franklin's quiet memory climbs to heaven, BYRON'S Age of Bronze. 25. And that odd impulse, which, in wars or creeds, Makes men, like cattle, follow him who leads. BYRON'S Don Juan. 26. For the life of a Fox, of a Chatham the death, What censure, what danger, what woe would I brave! Their lives did not end when they yielded their breath, Their glory illumines the gloom of the grave. 27. They speak in characters that never die, The human greatness of an age gone by. BYRON. W. C. LODGE. |