32 AMBITION - EMULATION - GLORY. And each affection failing, leaves the heart 17. An old, old man, with beard as white as snow. 18. The eye dims, and the heart gets old and slow; The lithe limb stiffens, and the sun-hued locks Thin themselves off, or whitely wither. CRABBE. SPENSER. BAILEY'S Festus. 19. Why grieve that Time has brought so soon To see the blush of morning gone. 20. The visions of my youth are past, Too bright, too beautiful to last. W. C. BRYANT. W. C. BRYANT. 20. Fled are the charms that graced that ivory brow; Where smiled a dimple, gapes a wrinkle now. ROBERT TREAT PAINE. AMBITION-EMULATION — GLORY. 1. Why then doth flesh, a bubble-glass of breath, SPENSER'S Ruins of Time. 2. Vaulting ambition overleaps itself. 3. Seeking the bubble Reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 4. "Tis like a circle in the water, 5. Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself, Till, by wide spreading, it disperse to nought. Who trod the ways of glory, SHAKSPEARE. And sounded all the depths and shoals of fame. SHAKSPEARE. 6. The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, The path of glory leads but to the grave! 7. What various wants on power attend! GRAY'S Elegy. And, barr'd from every use of wealth, GAY'S Fables. 8. Who never felt the impatient throb, The longing of a heart that pants And reaches after distant good? 9. The fiery soul abhorr'd in Catiline, COWPER. POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Oh sons of earth! attempt ye still to rise By mountains piled on mountains to the skies? POPE'S Essay on Man. 11. Thus the fond moth around the taper plays, And sports and flutters near the treacherous blaze; 34 AMBITION - EMULATION - GLORY. Ravish'd with joy, he wings his eager flight, Nor dreams of ruin in so clear a light: He tempts his fate, and courts a glorious doom, TICKELL. 12. So much the raging thirst for fame exceeds GIFFORD'S Juvenal. 13. But glory's glory; and if you would find What that is ask the pig who sees the wind. BYRON'S Don Juan. 14. Longings sublime and aspirations high. BYRON'S Don Juan. 15. What millions died, that Cæsar might be great! 16. Press on! for it is godlike to unloose 17. The spirit, and forget yourself in thought; CAMPBELL. N. P. WILLIS. Ambition is the germ, THOMAS DUNN ENGLISH. From which all growth of nobleness proceeds. 18. In some, ambition is the chief concern; For this they languish and for this they burn; 19. And man, the image of his God, is found, J. T. WATSON. J. T. WATSON. ANCESTRY-NOBILITY-TITLES, &c. 1. True is, that whilome that good poet said, SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Titles of honour add not to his worth, Who is an honour to his title. 3. Man is a name of honour for a king; Additions take away from each chief thing. 4. A fool indeed has great need of a title; 5. Titles, the servile courtier's lean reward, Sometimes the pay of virtue, but more oft FORD. CHAPMAN. CROWN. The hire which greatness gives to slaves and sycophants. ROWE. 6. With their authors in oblivion sunk Vain titles lie; the servile badges oft Of mean submission, not the meed of worth. THOMSON. 7. Whoe'er amidst the sons Of reason, valour, liberty, and virtue, Of nature's own creating. 8. Should vice expect to 'scape rebuke, Because its owner is a duke? THOMSON. 36 ANCESTRY - NOBILITY - TITLES, &c. 9. "Tis from high life high characters are drawn; 10. A gown-man, learn'd; a bishop what you will; More wise, more learn'd, more just, more everything. Many a Prince is worse, Who, proud of pedigree, is poor of purse. POPE. POPE'S Moral Essays. 11. How poor are all hereditary honours, 12. Boast not these titles of your ancestors, SHIRLEY. Brave youths; they're their possessions, not your own: your own virtues equall'd have their names, "T will be but fair to lean upon their fames, 13. Superior worth your rank requires; For that, mankind reveres your sires; 14. He stands for fame on his forefathers' feet, By heraldry proved valiant or discreet! 15. E'en to the dullest peasant standing by, Who fasten'd still on him a wandering eye, He seem'd the master spirit of the land. 16. Even to the delicacy of their hands BEN JONSON. GAY's Fables. YOUNG. JOANNA BAILLIE. There was resemblance, such as true blood wears. |