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Habits of close attention, thinking heads, Become more rare as dissipation spreads, Till authors hear at length one general cry Tickle and entertain us, or we die! - Retirement (l. 707) [Authorship] The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Should turn to writers of an abler sort, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, Give truth a lustre, and make wisdom smile. - Retirement (l. 715) [Reading] I praise the Frenchman; his remark was shrewd,-- "How sweet, how passing sweet is solitude." But grant me still a friend in my retreat, Whom I may whisper--Solitude is sweet. - Retirement (l. 739), quotation is also attributed to Jean de la Bruyere and to Jean Louis Guez de Balzac [Solitude] Religion does not censure or exclude Unnumbered pleasures, harmlessly pursued. - Retirement (l. 782) [Religion] Joint-stools were then created; on three legs Upborne they stood. Three legs upholding firm A massy slab, in fashion square or round. On such a stool immortal Alfred sat. - Sofa (bk. I, l. 19) [Furniture] A worm is in the bud of youth, And at the root of age. - Stanzas Subjoined to a Bill of Mortality [Decay] Ages elapsed ere Homer's lamp appeared, And ages ere the Mantuan Swan was heard; To carry nature lengths unknown before, To give a Milton birth, asked ages more. - Table Talk [Poets] . . . glory built On selfish principles is shame and guilt. - Table Talk (l. 1) [Glory] And prate and preach about what others prove, As if the world and they were hand and glove. - Table Talk (l. 173) [Hypocrisy] When admirals extoll'd for standing still, Of doing nothing with a deal of skill. - Table Talk (l. 192) [Labor] The Frenchman, easy, debonair, and brisk, Give him his lass, his fiddle, and his frisk, Is always happy, reign whoever may, And laughs the sense of mis'ry far away. - Table Talk (l. 237) [France] Thus happiness depends, as Nature shows, Less on exterior things than most suppose. - Table Talk (l. 246) [Happiness] No, Freedom has a thousand charms to show That slaves, howe'er contented, never know. - Table Talk (l. 260) [Freedom] Stamps God's own name upon a lie just made, To turn a penny in the way of trade. - Table Talk (l. 421) [Money] So that the jest is clearly to be seen, Not in the words--but in the gap between; Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ, The substitute for genius, sense, and wit. - Table Talk (l. 540) [Authorship] Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. - Table Talk (l. 588) [Character] By low ambition and the thirst of praise. - Table Talk (l. 591) [Ambition] Made poetry a mere mechanic art. - Table Talk (l. 654) [Poetry] Wit, now and then, struck smartly, shows a spark. - Table Talk (l. 665) [Wit] Pity! Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground! The flowers would spring where'er she deign'd to stray And every muse attend her in her way. - Table Talk (l. 688) [Religion] Nature, exerting an unwearied power, Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower; Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads. - Table Talk (l. 690) [Nature] We bear our shades about us; self-deprived Of other screen, the thin umbrella spread, And range an Indian waste without a tree. - Task (bk. I, l. 259) [Umbrellas] No tree in all the grove but has its charms, Though each its hue peculiar. - Task (bk. I, l. 307) [Trees] The earth was made so various, that the mind Of desultory man, studious of change And pleased with novelty, might be indulged. - Task (bk. I, l. 506) [Variety] Ingenious Fancy, never better pleased Than when employ'd t' accommodate the fair, Heard the sweet moan of pity, and devised The soft settee; one elbow at each end, And in the midst an elbow it received, United yet divided, twain at once. - Task (bk. I, l. 71) [Furniture] Displaying page 9 of 14 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 [9] 10 11 12 13 14
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