5. Fond man! the vision of a moment made!

Dream of a dream! and shadow of a shade!

6. How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful is man!

YOUNG.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

7. At thirty, man suspects himself a fool,
Knows it at forty, and reforms his plans;
At fifty, chides his infamous delay,
Pushes his proudest purpose to resolve;
In all the magnanimity of thought

Resolves and re-resolves - then dies the same.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

8. Poor pensioner on the bounties of an hour.

YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

9. How falsely is the spaniel drawn!
Did man from him first learn to fawn?
Go, man! the ways of courts discern,
You'll find a spaniel still might learn.
How can the fox's theft and plunder
Provoke man's censure or his wonder?
From courtiers' tricks, and lawyers' arts,
The fox might well improve his parts.
The lion, wolf, and tiger's brood
He curses for their love of blood:
But is not man to man a prey?

10.

Beasts kill for hunger, men for pay.

Each animal,

GAY's Fables.

By natural instinct taught, spares his own kind;
But man, the tyrant man, revels at large,
Freebooter unrestrain'd, destroys at will
The whole creation, men and beasts his prey,
These for his pleasure, for his glory those.

SOMERVILE'S Field Sports.

11. Mankind one day serene and free appear;
The next they're cloudy, sullen and severe;
New passions, new opinions still excite,
And what they like at noon they leave at night.

12. Oh! frail inconstancy of mortal state!

One hour dejected and the next elate!
Rais'd by false hopes, or by false fears deprest,
How different passions sway the human breast!

GARTH.

PATTISON.

13. A man so various that he seem'd to be
Not one but all mankind's epitome.
Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long.
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman and buffoon;
Then all for women, painting, rhyming, drinking,
Besides ten thousand freaks that died in thinking.

14. The way to conquer men is by their passions :
Catch but the ruling foible of their hearts,
And all their boasted virtues shrink before you.

15. Man is a very worm by birth,

Vile, reptile, weak and vain;
Awhile he crawls upon the earth,

Then sinks to earth again.

16. In every breast there burns an active flame, The love of glory, or the dread of shame.

17. Created half to rise, or half to fall,

Great lord of all things, yet a prey to all;
Sole judge of truth, in endless error hurl'd,
The glory, jest, and riddle of the world.

Spectator.

TOLSON.

POPE.

POPE.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

18. Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,
Pleas'd with a rattle, tickled with a straw;
Some livelier plaything gives his youth delight,
A little louder, but as empty quite ;

Scarfs, garters, gold, amuse his riper stage,
And beads and prayer-books are the toys of age.
Pleas'd with this bauble still, as that before,

Till tired, he sleeps, and life can charm no more.

POPE'S Essay on Man. 19. When the proud steed shall know why man restrains His fiery course, or drives him o'er the plains, When the dull ox, why now he breaks the clod, Is now a victim, and now Egypt's God;Then shall man's pride and dulness comprehend His actions', passions', being's, use and end.

POPE'S Essay on Man.

20. How few are found with real talents bless'd!
Fewer with nature's gifts contented rest.
Man from his sphere eccentric starts astray;
All hunt for fame, but most mistake the way.

21. The mind of man is vastly like a hive;

22.

His thoughts so busy ever - all alive!
But here the simile will go no further;
For bees are making honey, one and all;
Man's thoughts are busy in producing gall,
Committing daily, as it were, self-murder.

CHURCHILL.

DR. WOLCOT's Peter Pindar. "Tis man's pride,

His highest, worthiest, noblest boast,
The privilege he prizes most,

To stand by helpless woman's side.

MRS. HOLFORD's Margaret of Anjou.

23. Nature ne'er meant her secrets to be found, And man's a riddle which man can't expound.

R. T. PAINE.

24. Man's at the best a creature frail and vain,

In knowledge ignorant, in strength but weak;
Subject to sorrow, losses, sickness, pain,

Each storm his state, his mind, his body break.
MRS. BRADSTREET.

25. What tho' the generous cow give me to quaff
The milk nutritious; am I then a calf?

26. Smile on, nor venture to unmask

Man's heart, and view the hell that's there.

JOEL BARLOW.

27. Man's a phenomenon, one knows not what,
And wonderful beyond all wondrous measure;
'Tis pity tho', in this sublime world, that
Pleasure's a sin, and sometimes sin's a pleasure.

BYRON.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

28. Men are the sport of circumstances when The circumstances seem the sport of men.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

29. Man's a strange animal, and makes strange use
Of his own nature and the various arts,
And likes particularly to produce

Some new experiments to show his parts.

BYRON'S Don Juan.

30. That which I am, I am; I did not seek For life, nor did I make myself.

BYRON'S Cain.

31. Admire, exult, despise, laugh, weep,- for here There is much matter for all feeling : — Man! Thou pendulum betwixt a smile and tear!

BYRON'S Childe Harold.

32. But like the tender rose, men soon decay, They bloom, they wither, die, and pass away.

J. T. WATSON.

MATRIMONY - - WEDLOCK.

1. From that day forth, in peace and joyous bliss, They liv'd together long without debate; Nor private jars, nor spite of enemies,

Could shake the safe assurance of their state.

SPENSER'S Fairy Queen.

2. Marriage is a matter of more worth Than to be dealt in by attorneyship.

3. What is wedlock forced, but a hell,
An age of discord and continual strife?
Whereas the contrary bringeth forth bliss,
And is a pattern of celestial peace.

SHAKSPEARE.

SHAKSPEARE.

4. The hour of marriage ends the female reign,
And we give all we have to buy a chain;
Hire men to be our lords, who were our slaves,
And bribe our lovers to be perjur'd knaves.

CROWN.

5. The husband's sullen, dogged, shy,
The wife grows flippant in reply;
He loves command and due restriction,
And she as well likes contradiction.
She never slavishly submits;

She'll have her will, or have her fits;
He this way tugs, she that way draws,
And both find fault with equal cause.

6. Marriage to maids is like a war to men ; The battle causes fear, but the sweet hopes Of winning at the last, still draws 'em in.

GAY's Fables.

NAT. LEE.