Familiar Sayings.

Otago Witness, Issue 1581, 4 March 1882, Page 27

Familiar Sayings.

Quotations from the Jbest Authors.

(Our readers are invited to contribute quotation* of not more titan eight or nine lines.) | Selected by Incognito, Blueskin :— God shall be my hope, my stay, my guide, And lantern to my feet. , Shakespeare. Thrice is he armed that hath his quarrel just ; And he but naked, though locked up in steol, Whose conscience with iujustico is corrupted. Ibid. True nobility is oxeinpt from fear. lorn. 'Tis beauty that doth oft make woman proud ; 'Tis virtue that doth make them most admired. Ibid. 11l blows the wind that profits nobody. Ibid. Selected by H. Brazier, Alexandra:— Tho little birds that tune their morning's joy, Make her moans mad with their sweet melody ; For mirth doth search tho bottom of annoy ; , Sad souls are slain in merry company ; • . Grief best is pleased with Grief's society. Shakespeare. , The rose is a sign of joy aud love. - „ , Percival The cypress that dally shades the grave, . Is sowow that mourns her bitter lot ; And faith, that a thousand ills embrace, Speaks in'thy blue leaves! " forget-me-not." Ibid. Sleeping, before me your image I saw, ' Pale, haggard, pursued by the furies it Beemed, ( And seconds like years from eternity's store, i Till waking I found I only had dreamed. Manton. The birds that dance from bough to bough, And sing above in every tree, Are not from fears and cares more free 1 Than wo who lie, or sit, or walk below, rAnd should by right be singers too. What prince's choir of music can excol That which within, this shade does dwell, To which we nothing pay or give ? Cowley. Love sought is good, but given unsought is better ' ■ ! Shakespeare. Age and youth both have their dreams. 'On woman Nature did- bestow.two eyes, Like heaven's bright lamps, t,in matchless beauty Whose beams do soouost captivate' tne wise ' ( ' And wary heads, made rare by art's refining. • Robert Greene Who ever loved that loved not at first eight. , ,„, , i Marlowe, A spirit dwells within each Bower. ■ 1 i Saain. Of earthly goods the best is a good wife. < , , ; • Sunanid,et. Never marry but with love, nor love without reason. Virtue is her own reward. . •. ■ ... ii. r' ,i i ' i- Prior. , Selected by W. >0., Ooqie A , , ''./ • '.<t ; • the 'river. •i ' • <• ' • Oh 1 could I flow like thee'.'and'mako'thy streata My great example, ,as it is my theme ! ' " ''''„,, though deep, yet dear ; though gentle,, yet not dull ; .Strong without rage ; without o'erflowing, full.' I —SirJohn t Denham, 1615-1668. j opportunity! v '[„',',! '/' n , .Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, - ■„ ;// Old Time is still a-flying, , . . , And this same flower that smiles, to-day, i, 1 To-morrowwill be dying. „ ,r t i , —Robert Herrielc, 1501-1660. ! ' AGAINST WILIi.' , ' '1 1 He that complies against his.will.' > .' . ' Is of his own opinion still. i , —Samuel Butler, 1612-1680. I [ AT RANDOM. i Oh ! many a shaft, at random sent, . Finds mark the archer little meant ; •' And many a word, at randqm.vspqken, 1 May soothe, or wound, a heart that s broken. , i "wy '■ -LSir Walter Scott; 117M832. ' ' UNDUE FAMHiIAR f ITY. The man that hails you Tom 'or Jack, ' And proves, by thurnping-on your back, llis Bense of your great 'merit, Is such a friend that one had needi i Be very much his friend indeed, ' To pardon or to bear it. , * —William Cowper, mi>lßoo. APPEARANCES. "Tis not the fairest form that holds Tho mildest, purest soul within ; 'Tis not the richest plant that folds The sweetest breath of fragrance in. —Riifus Dawes, 1808-1859. MAN. ' Lord, what a nothing is this little span We call a man ! How Blight and short are his resolves at longest ! How weak at strongest ! — Francis Quarles, 1592-16 M.