Then, sliding gently from his own display Dangle. O. W. Holmes, The Banker's Dinner. He has a ready turn for ridicule his wit costs him nothing. Sir Fret. No, egad,—or I should wonder how Thou wilt say anon he is some kin to thee, Thou spend'st such high-day wit in praising him. MERCHANT OF VENICE, ii, 9. High in name and power, Higher than both in blood and life. ANTONY AND Cleopatra, i, 2. Thy spirit which keeps thee is Noble, courageous, high, unmatchable. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA, ii, 3. This gentleman is happily arrived, My mind presumes, for his own good and ours. TAMING OF THE SHREW, i, 2. In your own worth, and therefore 't were a sin Randolph, MUSES' LOOKING-Glass. It is requisite that a gentleman should not always be plodding in one art, but rather be a general scholar, that is, to have a lick at all sorts of learning, and away. Dekker, GULL'S HORNBOOK. I will not rob you of any of the credit: I am but a feeble instrument; you are an Engineer. Here is a man-but 't is before his face; I will be silent! TROILUS AND Cressida, ii, 3. This is a traveler, Sir, knows men and manners, and has plow'd up the sea so far, 'till both the poles have knock'd. Beaumont and Fletcher, THE SCORNFUL LADY, i. This most gallant, illustrate and learned gentle man. LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST, V, 1. Great clerks have purposed To greet me with premeditated welcomes. MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM, V, 1. Right welcome sir! Ere we depart we 'll share a bounteous time. TIMON OF ATHENS, i, 1. Strength of limb and policy of mind, Ability in means and choice of friends. He hath a tear for pity and a hand MUCH ADO, iv, 1. II HENRY IV, iv, 4. Eminence, wealth, sovereignty; Which, to say sooth, are blessings. HENRY VIII, ii, 3. More is thy due than more than all can pay. MACBETH, i, 4. Not that we think us worthy such a guest, B. Jonson, EPIGRAMS, ci. He that should search all glories of the gown, To that bad eminence. B. Jonson, UNDERWOODS. By merit raised Milton, PARADISE Lost, ü. The Guest. I do not give you to posterity as a pattern to imitate, but as an example to deter. Junius, LETTER Xii. May you live all the days of your life! Swift, POLITE CONVERSATIONS, ii. A companion that is cheerful . . . is worth gold. Walton, COMPLETE Angler, iii. Be every birthday more a winner, Digest his thirty-thousandth dinner. Pope, To—. The nose of haut-goût, and the tip of taste. Pope, MORAL ESSAYS, ii. We attend thy reverend length of days A kenside, ODES, vii. The soul which answered best to all well said John Cleveland. Let the learned and witty, the jovial and gay, B. Jonson, LEGES CONVIVIALES. I may chance have some odd quirks and remnants of wit broken on me, because I have rail'd so long against marriage. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, ii, 3. Raillery, Raillery! Madam, we have no Animosity-We hit off a little wit now and then, but no Animosity. Congreve, THE Way of the WORLD, iii, 13. I shall see thee ere I die look pale with love. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, i, I. Here you may see Benedick the married man. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, i, I. Oh, he has Witchcraft in his Eyes and Tongue; - when I did not see him I could have bribed a Villain to his Assassination. Congreve, THE Way of the World, v, 8. My Resolution is to see Foreign Parts-I have set on 't-and when I 'm set on 't I must do 't. Congreve, THE WAY OF THE WORLD, v, 13. To be a well favoured man is the gift of fortune, but to write and read comes by nature. MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING, iii, 3. But that modesty forbids that I should sound the trumpet of my own deserts, I could say, my choice manners have been such, as render me lov'd and remarkable to the princes of the blood. Beaumont and Fletcher, THE ELDER BROTHER. I confess I do blaze to-day, I am too bright. Petulant's my Friend, and a very honest Fel- A Wit should be no more sincere than a What art thou but black clothes? Marston, SATIRES, ii. Greets with three cheers exulting. Cowper, TASK, i. Whose homeopathic sagacity With an ocean of zeal mixed his drop of capacity. Lowell, FABLE FOR CRITICS. The Guest. |