Chapter 54
WILLIAM CONGREVE.
1669-1729.
_The Mourning Bride_. Act i. Sc. 1.
Music hath charms to soothe the savage breast.
To soften rocks, or bend a knotted oak.
By magic numbers and persuasive sound.
Act iii. Sc. 1.
Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor h.e.l.l a fury like a woman scorned.
ALEXANDER POPE.
1688-1744.
ESSAY ON MAN.
Epistle i. Line 5.
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of man; A mighty maze! but not without a plan.
Line 13.
Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, And catch the manners living as they rise.
Line 88.
A hero perish or a sparrow fall.
Line 95.
Hope springs eternal in the human breast: Man never _is_, but always _to be_ blest.
Line 99.
Lo, the poor Indian! whose untutored mind Sees G.o.d in clouds, or hears him in the wind.
Line 200.
Die of a rose in aromatic pain?
Line 294.
One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Epistle ii. Line 1.
Know then thyself, presume not G.o.d to scan; The proper study of mankind is man.[11]
[Note 11: From Charron (de la Sagesse):--"La vraye science et le vray etude de l'homme c'est l'homme."]
Line 217.
Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated, needs but to be seen; But seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
Line 231.
Virtuous and vicious every man must be, Few in th' extreme, but all in the degree.
Line 276.
Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Epistle iii. Line 305.
For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.
Epistle iv. Line 49.
Order is Heaven's first law.
Line 193.
Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part--there all the honor lies.
Line 203.
Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella.