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man who is virtuous from the love of virtue, from the obligation which he thinks he lies under to the Giver of all, there are ten thousand who are good only from their apprehensions of punishment.— Goldsmith.

MCCCXXIV.

Well the learn'd and the judicious know,
That satire scorns to stoop so meanly low,
As any one abstracted fop to show.

For, as when painters form a matchless face,
They from each fair one catch some diff'rent grace;
And shining features in one portrait blend,
To which no single beauty must pretend.
So poets oft do in one piece expose

Whole belles assemblees of coquets and beaux.

Epilogue to the Way of the World.-Congreve.

MCCCXXV.

What a piece of work is man! How noble in reason! how infinite in faculties! in form, and moving, how express and admirable! In action, how like an angel! in apprehension, how like a god! the beauty of the world! the paragon of animals! And yet, to me, what is this quintessence of dust? - Shakspeare.

MCCCXXVI.

Give me a look, give me a face,
That makes simplicity a grace;
Robes loosely flowing, hair as free:
Such sweet neglect more taketh me,
Than all the adulteries of art;

They strike mine eyes, but not mine heart.

Ben Jonson,

Colonies, 1300

Company, 160, 165, 194, 256,
447, 630, 679, 748, 1201

Complaisance, 422

Compliments, 597

Composition, 343

Conceit, 658, 971

Confidence, 225

Conscience, 880, 1114
Constancy, 931

Content, 257, 334, 721, 780,
1122, 1126, 1204, 1239
Controversy, 305, 762, 909
Conversation, 42, 149, 404, 560,
583, 652, 664, 679, 938, 1111
Convert, 491
Conviviality, 793, 1113, 1238
Conquest, 575
Contempt, 612
Corruption, 1118

Country life, 169, 1009, 1056
Countryman,

Courage, 210, 375, 920
Courts, 665, 764

Courtier, the, 719

Courtship, 208, 214, 216, 289,
415, 902

Court-virtues, 201, 434, 442,
1183

Cowardice, 264, 555, 803
Cowley, the Poet, 500
Credit, 727, 749
Credibility, 483, 505

Critics, 33, 35, 62, 239, 438, 400,

607, 722, 751, 910, 967, 1007,
1129, 1151, 1174
Cruelty to Animals, 966, 1257
Cunning, 315, 1005

Curiosity, 369, 817, 878, 1659
Custom, 95, 215, 1189
Cyphers, four great, 736

Deafness, remedy for, 420

Death, 576, 1161, 1170, 1185

Debt. 367, 619

Deceit, 151, 529

Fame, 15, 299, 363, 459, 718, 728,

753, 794, 918, 1237
Fan, uses of, 30
Fancy, 1205

Fashion, 5, 380, 1123
Favourite, 895, 922

Fear, 204, 390, 732, 757, 1323
Fiddle-playing, 144
Filial Obedience, 1192
Finery, 448, 1240
Firmament, the, 994
Flattery, 258, 322, 487, 559,707,
806, 1309

Fools, 72, 143, 181, 288, 311,

584, 644, 831, 1090

Foppery, 1288

Foreign Novelty, 1038
Forgiveness, 59, 60, 750
Fortune, 9, 634, 775, 783, 983,
1235, 1301

French, habits of the, 510
Friend, on the death of, 1014
Friend, in need, 1264, 1290
Friendship, 57, 172, 327, 484,
654, 662, 672, 802, 827, 985,
1061, 1081, 1137, 1219
Frugality, 1196
Futurity, 1141, 1156

Hamlet, play of, 556

Happiness, 408, 417, 796, 857,
918, 1036, 1108
Head dresses, 107, 545
Health, 1246

Heart, the, 244

Herald, character of, 425
Heroes, 63, 1086

Herrick to Ben Jonson, 875
History, 58, 463, 837, 868, 1157,
Hobbies, 410

Honesty, 245, 519, 589, 1022
Honour, 239, 616, 715, 851, 872
944, 1067

Hope, 1046, 1199
Horace, 1144

Hospitality, 549

Human creature, 198
Humility, 730, 788
Hunger, 781
Humour, 835, 839

Hunters, various, 381
Hypocrisy, 142, 357, 924, 993

Idleness, 186, 338, 353, 686,
822, 941, 950, 1294
Ill-manners, 498

Learning, 190, 217, 472, 534
Letter-writing, 225, 782, 973
Liberty, 478, 565, 1250

Life, 79, 93, 188, 227, 265, 495,
550, 643, 682, 838, 877, 982.
1045, 1116, 1272

Logic, 191

London parish, 795

happiness of, 1297
Longevity, 351, 772
Loquacity, 250, 292, 850, 932,
977, 1002, 1103

Love, 129, 185, 232, 237, 251,

285, 316, 318, 320, 348, 366,
384, 392, 413, 415, 437, 446,
468, 476, 533, 548, 660, 695,
700, 729, 766, 786, 791, 815,
825, 858, 863, 916, 923, 927,
934, 940, 948, 956, 979, 1041,
1047, 1058, 1098, 1117, 1133,
1138, 1146, 1160, 1164, 1166,
1176, 1188, 1191, 1212, 1255,
1291, 1302, 1313
Loyalty, 1003

Lying, 39, 270, 776, 887, 968

Mad dogs, 561

Magistrate, 202, 452
Malice, 26, 461

Man, 140, 212, 625, 692, 936,
1325

Master, the good, 697
Mathematics, 109

Matrimony, 17, 52, 61, 73, 82,
226, 228, 429, 466, 471, 626,
832, 844, 852, 893, 987, 1000,
1023, 1121, 1308
Maxims, 383
Mean, the, 915
Melancholy, 182,
Memory, 1104

Merchant, the good, 668, 769
Mercy, 326, 627
Merit, 1060

Milton, John, 1071
Minister, 98, 163
Mirth, 708

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