The potentiality of growing rich beyond the dreams of avarice.1 Boswell's Life of Johnson. An. 1781. Classical quotation is the parole of literary men all over the world. Ibid. My friend was of opinion that when a man of rank appeared in that character (as an author), he deserved to have his merits handsomely allowed.2 Ibid. I never have sought the world; the world was not to seek me.8 An. 1783. I have always looked upon it as the worst condition of man's destiny, that persons are so often torn asunder just as they become happy in each other's society. Ibid. I have found you an argument, I am not obliged to find you an understanding. Who drives fat oxen should himself be fat.* If the man who turnips cries A good hater. An. 1784. Ibid. Johnsoniana. Piozzi, 30. Ibid. 39. Books that you may carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are the most useful after all. 1 I am rich beyond the dreams of avarice. Hawkins, 197. Edward Moore (1753), The Gamester, Act ii. Sc. 2. 2 Usually quoted as "when a nobleman writes a book, he ought to be encouraged." $ I have not loved the world, nor the world me. Byron, Childe Harold, Canto iii. St. 113. + Parody on "Who rules o'er freemen should himself be free.". From Brooke's Gustavus Vasa, first edition. The atrocious crime of being a young man, which the honourable gentleman has, with such spirit and decency, charged upon me, I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny, but content myself with wishing that I may be one of those whose follies may cease with their youth, and not of that number who are ignorant in spite of experience.1 Pitt's Reply to Walpole. Speech, March 6, 1741. WILLIAM PITT, EARL OF CHATHAM. 1708-1778. Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged Speech, Jan. 14, 1766. bosom. A long train of these practices has at length unwillingly convinced me that there is something behind the Throne greater than the King himself.2 Chatham Correspondence. Speech, March 2, 1770. Where law ends, tyranny begins. Case of Wilkes. Speech, Jan. 9, 1770. Reparation for our rights at home, and security against the like future violations.3 Letter to the Earl of Shelburne, Sept. 29, 1770. This is the composition of Johnson, founded on some note or statement of the actual speech. Johnson said, "That speech I wrote in a garret, in Exeter Street." See Boswell's Johnson, An. 1741. 2 Quoted by Lord Mahon, "greater than the Throne itself."History of England, Vol. v. p. 258. 3 "Indemnity for the past and security for the future," is said to be Mr. Pitt's phrase. See De Quincey, Theol. Essays, Vol. ii. p. 170, and Russell's Memoir of Fox, Vol. iii. p. 345, Letter to the Hon. T. Maitland. If I were an American, as I am an Englishman, while a foreign troop was landed in my country, I never would lay down my arms, never — never — Speech, Nov. 18, 1777. never. The poorest man may in his cottage bid defiance to all the force of the Crown. It may be frail; its roof may shake; the wind may blow through it; the storms may enter, the rain may enter, but the King of England cannot enter! all his forces dare not cross the threshold of the ruined tenement.1 Speech on the Excise Bill. We have a Calvinistic creed, a Popish liturgy, and an Arminian clergy. From Prior's Life of Burke, 1790. JAMES TOWNLEY. 1715-1778. Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur. Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. 1. come. From humble Port to imperial Tokay. DYER. And he that will this health deny, Ibid. Down among the dead men let him lie. Published in the early part of the reign of George I. 1 From Brougham's Statesmen of George III., First Series, LYTTELTON. - GRAVES. 321 LORD LYTTELTON. 1709-1773. For his chaste Muse employed her heaven-taught lyre Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. Women, like princes, find few real friends. Advice to a Lady. What is your sex's earliest, latest care, Ibid. Ibid. An Irregular Ode. None without hope e'er loved the brightest fair, Where none admire, 't is useless to excel; Epigram. Soliloquy on a Beauty in the Country. Alas! by some degree of woe We every bliss must gain; The heart can ne'er a transport know That never feels a pain. Song. RICHARD GRAVES. 1715-1804. Each cursed his fate that thus their project crossed; An Incident in High Life. (Appendix of Original Pieces.) LAURENCE STERNE. 1713-1768. Go, poor devil, get thee gone; why should I hurt thee? This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me. Tristram Shandy. (Orig. ed.) Vol. ii. Ch. xii. "Our armies swore terribly in Flanders," cried my uncle Toby, "but nothing to this." Vol. iii. Ch. xi. Of all the cants which are canted in this canting world, though the cant of hypocrites may be the worst, the cant of criticism is the most tormenting! Vol. iii. Ch. xii. The accusing spirit, which flew up to heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the recording angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word and blotted it out forever.1 66 Vol. vi. Ch. viii. They order," said I, "this matter better in France." I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, 'T is all barren. In the Street. Calais. God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.2 Maria. "Disguise thyself as thou wilt, still, Slavery," said I, "still thou art a bitter draught." The Passport. The Hotel at Paris. The sad vicissitude of things.3 Sermon xvi. 1 But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in. Campbell, Pleasures of Hope, ii. Line 357. 2 Dieu mesure le froid à la brebis tondue. Henri Estienne (1594), Prémices, etc., p. 47. Compare Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. Page 161. 8 Revolves the sad vicissitudes of things. R. Gifford, Contemplation. |