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Evil news rides post, while good news baits.
1248
MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1538.

Turn to the press--its teeming sheets survey,
Big with the wonders of each passing day;
Births, deaths, and weddings, forgeries, fires, and wrecks,
Harangues and hailstones, brawls and broken necks.
1249
SPRAGUE: _Curiosity._

=Newton.=

Nature and Nature's laws lay hid in night:
God said, "Let Newton be!" and all was light.
1250
POPE: _Epitaph intended for Sir Isaac Newton._

Newton (that proverb of the mind), alas!
Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent,
That he himself felt only "like a youth
Picking up shells by the great ocean--Truth."
1251
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto vii., St. 5.

=New Year.=

The wave is breaking on the shore,--
The echo fading from the chime--
Again the shadow moveth o'er
The dial-plate of time!
1252
WHITTIER: _The New Year._

=Niagara.=

Flow on for ever in thy glorious robe
Of terror and of beauty; ... God hath set
His rainbow on thy forehead; and the cloud
Mantles around thy feet.
1253
MRS. SIGOURNEY: _Niagara._

=Night.=

Dark night, that from the eye his function takes,
The ear more quick of apprehension makes.
1254
SHAKS.: _Mid. N. Dream,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Now began
Night with her sullen wing to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couch'd,
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam.
1255
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. i., Line 409.

Awful Night!
Ancestral mystery of mysteries.
1256
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. iv.

Night, night it is, night upon the palms.
Night, night it is, the land wind has blown.
Starry, starry night, over deep and height;
Love, love in the valley, love all alone.
1257
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Feast of Famine._

Night is the time to weep,
To wet with unseen tears
Those graves of memory where sleep
The joys of other years.
1258
JAMES MONTGOMERY: _The Issues of Life and Death._

=Nightingale.=

The nightingale, if she should sing by day,
When every goose is cackling, would be thought
No better a musician than the wren.
How many things by season season'd are
To their right praise, and true perfection!
1259
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

O Nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray
Warblest at eve, when all the woods are still,
Thou with fresh hope the lover's heart dost fill.
1260
MILTON: _Sonnet 1._

=Nobility.=

Noble by birth, yet nobler by great deeds.
1261
LONGFELLOW: _Tales of a Wayside Inn. Emma and Eginhard._

For he who is honest is noble,
Whatever his fortunes or birth.
1262
ALICE CARY: _Nobility._

=North.=

Ask where's the north? at York, 't is on the Tweed;
In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there,
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.
1263
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 222.

=November.=

Next was November; he full gross and fat
As fed with lard, and that right well might seem;
For he had been a-fatting hogs of late,
That yet his brows with sweat did reek and steam.
1264
SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 40.

In rattling showers dark November's rain,
From every stormy cloud, descends amain.
1265
RUSKIN: _The Months._

=Numbers.=

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,
I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.
1266
POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 127.

==O.==

=Oak.=

Those green-robed senators of mighty woods,
Tall oaks, branch-charmed by the earnest stars,
Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.
1267
KEATS: _Hyperion,_ Bk. i.

A song to the oak, the brave old oak,
Who hath ruled in the greenwood long!
1268
HENRY F. CHORLEY: _The Brave Old Oak._

=Oars.=

The oars were silver,
Which to the tune of flutes kept stroke, and made
The water which they beat to follow faster,
As amorous of their strokes.
1269
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Oaths.=

'T is not the many oaths that make the truth;
But the plain single vow, that is vow'd true.
1270
SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Oaths were not purpos'd, more than law,
To keep the good and just in awe,
But to confine the bad and sinful,
Like moral cattle, in a pinfold.
1271
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 197.

=Obedience.=

Let them obey that know not how to rule.
1272
SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Obedience is the Christian's crown.
1273
SCHILLER: _Fight with the Dragon,_ St. 24.

=Observation.=

For he is but a bastard to the time
That doth not smack of observation.
1274
SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Ocean.=

Roll on, thou deep and dark blue Ocean--roll!
Ten thousand fleets sweep over thee in vain;
Man marks the earth with ruin--his control
Stops with the shore;--upon the watery plain
The wrecks are all thy deed, nor doth remain
A shadow of man's ravage, save his own,
When, for a moment, like a drop of rain,
He sinks into thy depths with bubbling groan,
Without a grave, unknell'd, uncoffin'd, and unknown.
1275
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iv., St. 179.

One height
Showed him the ocean, stretched in liquid light,
And he could hear its multitudinous roar,
Its plunge and hiss upon the pebbled shore.
1276
GEORGE ELIOT: _Legend of Jubal,_ Line 506.

=October.=

The sweet calm sunshine of October, now
Warms the low spot; upon its grassy mould
The purple oak-leaf falls; the birchen bough
Drops its bright spoil like arrow-heads of gold.
1277
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _October, 1866._

October's foliage yellows with his cold.
1278
RUSKIN: _The Months._

=Offence.=

In such a time as this, it is not meet
That every nice offence should bear his comment.
1279
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

And love the offender, yet detest the offence.
1280
POPE: _Eloisa to A.,_ Line 192.

=Old Age.=

Though I look old, yet I am strong and lusty;
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility:
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.
1281
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

When he is forsaken,
Withered and shaken,
What can an old man do but die?
1282
HOOD: _Ballad._

=Opinion.=

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan
The outward habit by the inward man.
1283
SHAKS.: _Pericles,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

He that complies against his will
Is of his own opinion still.
1284
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto iii., Line 547.

=Opportunity.=

O Opportunity! thy guilt is great:
'T is thou that execut'st the traitor's treason;
Thou sett'st the wolf where he the lamb may get;
Whoever plots the sin, thou point'st the season;
'T is thou that spurn'st at right, at law, at reason.
1285
SHAKS.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 876.

=Oracle.=

I am Sir Oracle,
And when I ope my lips, let no dog bark!
1286
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Oratory.=

Thence to the famous orators repair,
Those ancient, whose resistless eloquence
Wielded at will that fierce democracy,
Shook the Arsenal, and fulmined over Greece,
To Macedon, and Artaxerxes' throne.
1287
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 267.

=Order.=

Order is heav'n's first law; and this confest,
Some are, and must be, greater than the rest,
More rich, more wise; but who infers from hence
That such are happier, shocks all common sense.
1288
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 49.

=Ornament.=

Thus ornament is but the guiled shore
To a most dangerous sea.
1289
SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=Owl.=

It was the owl that shriek'd, the fatal bellman,
Which gives the stern'st good-night.
1290
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

==P.==

=Pain.=

Pain pays the income of each precious thing.
1291
SHAKS.: _R. of Lucrece,_ Line 334.

Pain is no longer pain when it is past.
1292
MARGARET J. PRESTON: _Sonnet._ _Nature's Lesson._

The sad mechanic exercise
Like dull narcotics numbing pain.
1293
TENNYSON: _In Memoriam, Prologue,_ v., St. 2.

=Painter.=

With hue like that when some great painter dips
His pencil in the gloom of earthquake and eclipse.
1294
SHELLEY: _Revolt of Islam,_ Canto v., St. 23.

=Palm.=

No hammers fell, no ponderous axes rung;
Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung.
1295
HEBER: _Palestine._

=Pan.=

And they heard the words it said,--
"Pan is dead! great Pan is dead!
Pan, Pan is dead!"
1296
MRS. BROWNING: _The Dead Pan._

=Pang.=

And even the pang preceding death
Bids expectation rise.
1297
GOLDSMITH: _The Captivity,_ Act ii.

=Paradise.=

'T is sweet, as year by year we lose
Friends out of sight, in faith to muse
How grows in Paradise our store.
1298
KEBLE: _Burial of the Dead._

=Pardon.=

Forgiveness to the injured does belong;
But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong.
1299
DRYDEN: _Conquest of Granada,_ Pt. ii., Act i., Sc. 2.

=Parents.=

Great families of yesterday we show,
And lords, whose parents were the Lord knows who.
1300
DEFOE: _True-Born Englishman,_ Pt. i., Line 1.

=Parting.=

What! gone without a word?
Ay, so true love should do: it cannot speak;
For truth hath better deeds, than words, to grace it.
1301
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

They who go
Feel not the pain of parting; it is they
Who stay behind that suffer.
1302
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. I., i.

Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal.
1303
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 10.

=Passion.=

Fountain heads and pathless groves,
Places which pale passion loves.
1304
JOHN FLETCHER: _The Nice Valour,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

Passions are likened best to floods and streams:
The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb.
1305
SIR WALTER RALEIGH: _Silent Lover._

=Past, The.=

Over the trackless past, somewhere,
Lie the lost days of our tropic youth,
Only regained by faith and prayer,
Only recalled by prayer and plaint:
Each lost day has its patron saint.
1306
BRET HARTE: _The Lost Galleon,_ Last St.

Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul,
As the swift seasons roll!
Leave thy low-vaulted past!
1307
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Chambered Nautilus._

=Patience.=

How poor are they, that have not patience!
What wound did ever heal, but by degrees?
1308
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.

Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim.
1309
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Patience is more oft the exercise
Of saints, the trial of their fortitude,
Making them each his own deliverer,
And victor over all
That tyranny or fortune can inflict.
1310
MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1287.

Patience is a plant
That grows not in all gardens.
1311
LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii., 4.

There are times when patience proves at fault.
1312
ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 3.

=Patriotism.=

Strike--for your altars and your fires;
Strike--for the green graves of your sires;
God, and your native land!
1313
FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._

One flag, one land, one heart, one hand,
One Nation evermore!
1314
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Voyage of the Good Ship Union._

My country, 't is of thee,
Sweet land of liberty,--
Of thee I sing:
Land where my fathers died,
Land of the pilgrims' pride,
From every mountain side
Let freedom ring.
1315
SAMUEL F. SMITH: _National Hymn._

Sail on, O Ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
1316
LONGFELLOW: _Building of the Ship._

=Peace.=

A peace is of the nature of a conquest;
For then both parties nobly are subdued,
And neither party loser.
1317
SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

I, in this weak piping time of peace,
Have no delight to pass away the time,
Unless to see my shadow in the sun.
1318
SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Why prate of peace? when, warriors all,
We clank in harness into hall,
And ever bare upon the board
Lies the necessary sword.
1319
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Woodman._

Peace hath her victories,
No less renowned than war.
1320
MILTON: Sonnet xvi.

Peace was on the earth and in the air.
1321
WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30.

=Pearls.=

Go boldly forth, my simple lay,
Whose accents flow with artless ease,
Like orient pearls at random strung.
1322
SIR WILLIAM JONES: _A Persian Song of Hafiz._

=Pen.=

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword.
1323
BULWER-LYTTON: _Richelieu,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

This dull product of a scoffer's pen.
1324
WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. ii.

=People.=

And what the people but a herd confus'd,
A miscellaneous rabble, who extol
Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise?
1325
MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49.

=Perfection.=

One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun.
1326
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Perjury.=

At lovers' perjuries,
They say, Jove laughs.
1327
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Perseverance.=

Perseverance, dear my lord,
Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang
Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail
In monumental mockery.
1328
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Persuasion.=

He from whose lips divine persuasion flows.
1329
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vii., Line 143.

=Petitions.=

Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day;
Let other hours be set apart for business.
1330
FIELDING: _Tom Thumb the Great,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Philosophy.=

How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfeit reigns.
1331
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 476.

=Physic.=

Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it.
1332
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.
1333
SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Piety.=

Why should not piety be made,
As well as equity, a trade,
And men get money by devotion,
As well as making of a motion?
1334
BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 295.

=Pilot.=

Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night!
There's danger on the deep.
1335
THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY: _The Pilot._

=Pines.=

Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines.
1336
COLERIDGE: _Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni._

=Pipe.=

Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe
When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe.
1337
BYRON: _The Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19.

=Pity.=

Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
1338
SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.

Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.
1339
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 161.

=Place.=

The fittest place where man can die
Is where he dies for man!
1340
MICHAEL J. BARRY: _The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844._

=Play.=

The play 's the thing
Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king.
1341
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Pleasure.=

Pleasure, and revenge,
Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice
Of any true decision.
1342
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

But not e'en pleasure to excess is good:
What most elates, then sinks the soul as low.
1343
THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., St. 63.

Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain.
1344
ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 170.

But pleasures are like poppies spread,
You seize the flower, its bloom is shed.
1345
BURNS: _Tam o' Shanter._

Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
1346
DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 97.

=Poetry--Poets.=

It is not poetry that makes men poor;
For few do write that were not so before.
1347
BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 441.

A verse may find him who a sermon flies,
And turn delight into a sacrifice.
1348
HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 1.

Poets are all who love, who feel great truths,
And tell them; and the truth of truths is love.
1349
BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Another and a Better World._

The poor poet
Worships without reward, nor hopes to find
A heaven save in his worship.
1350
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.

God is the PERFECT POET,
Who in creation acts his own conceptions.
1351
ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.

Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong,
And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song.
1352
KEATS: _Epis. to George Felton Mathews._

Blessings be with them, and eternal praise,
Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.--
The poets who on earth have made us heirs
Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays.
1353
WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk._

=Pole.=

True as the needle to the pole,
Or as the dial to the sun.
1354
BARTON BOOTH: _Song._

=Pomp.=

Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time,
So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry;
Blot out the epic's stately rhyme,
But spare his "Highland Mary"!
1355
WHITTIER: _Lines on Burns_

=Poppies.=

As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain,
Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,--
So sinks the youth.
1356
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. viii., Line 371.

=Popularity.=

O, he sits high in all the people's hearts:
And that, which would appear offence in us,
His countenance, like richest alchymy,
Will change to virtue and to worthiness.
1357
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd,
And paid the salutations of the crowd.
1358
DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 689.

=Possession.=

What we have we prize not to the worth,
Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost,
Why then we rack the value, then we find
The virtue that possession would not show us
Whiles it was ours.
1359
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Possession means to sit astride of the world,
Instead of having it astride of you.
1360
CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Poverty.=

My poverty, but not my will, consents.
1361
SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

If we from wealth to poverty descend,
Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend.
1362
DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.

Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong.
They learn in suffering what they teach in song.
1363
SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._

In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight,
And poverty stood smiling in my sight.
1364
POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xvii., Line 505.

=Power.=

What can power give more than food and drink,
To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
1365
DRYDEN: _Medal,_ Line 235.

The good old rule
Sufficeth them, the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.
1366
WORDSWORTH: _Rob Roy's Grave._

=Prairie.=

Far in the East like low-hung clouds
The waving woodlands lie;
Far in the West the glowing plain
Melts warmly in the sky.
No accent wounds the reverent air,--
No footprint dints the sod,--
Low in the light the prairie lies
Rapt in a dream of God.
1367
JOHN HAY: _The Prairie._

=Praise.=

Praising what is lost,
Makes the remembrance dear.
1368
SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering teach the rest to sneer.
1369
POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 201.

=Prayer.=

Let never day nor night unhallowed pass,
But still remember what the Lord hath done.
1370
SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

If by prayer
Incessant I could hope to change the will
Of him who all things can, I would not cease
To weary him with my assiduous cries;
But prayer against his absolute decree
No more avails than breath against the wind
Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth:
Therefore to his great bidding I submit.
1371
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xi., Line 307.

He prayeth best who loveth best
All things both great and small;
For the dear God who loveth us,
He made and loveth all.
1372
COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. vii.

God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers,
And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face,
A gauntlet with a gift in 't.
1373
MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. ii.

More things are wrought by prayer
Than this world dreams of.
1374
TENNYSON: _Morte d'Arthur,_ Line 247.

=Preaching.=

I preached as never sure to preach again,
And as a dying man to dying men.
1375
RICHARD BAXTER: _Love Breathing Thanks and Praise._

=Present.=

The Present, the Present is all thou hast
For thy sure possessing;
Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast
Till it gives its blessing.
1376
WHITTIER: _My Soul and I,_ St. 34.

=Press.=

Here shall the Press the People's right maintain,
Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain.
1377
JOSEPH STORY: _Motto of the "Salem Register."_

=Pride.=

Pride hath no other glass
To show itself, but pride; for supple knees
Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees.
1378
SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin
Is pride that apes humility.
1379
COLERIDGE: _The Devil's Thoughts._

=Priest.=

No nightly trance or breathed spell
Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell.
1380
MILTON: _Hymn on Christ's Nativity,_ Line 173.

=Primrose.=

A primrose by a river's brim
A yellow primrose was to him,
And it was nothing more.
1381
WORDSWORTH: _Peter Bell,_ Pt. i., St. 12.

=Printing.=

Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind
To stamp a lasting image of the mind!
1382
CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.

Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so."
Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No."
1383
BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book._

=Prison.=

Stone walls do not a prison make,
Nor iron bars a cage;
Minds innocent and quiet, take
That for an hermitage.
1384
LOVELACE: _To Althea, from Prison,_ iv.

=Procrastination.=

Procrastination is the thief of time:
Year after year it steals, till all are fled,
And to the mercies of a moment leaves
The vast concerns of an eternal scene.
1385
YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 393.

=Prodigies.=

When these prodigies
Do so conjointly meet, let not men say
"These are their reasons,--They are natural;"
For, I believe, they are portentous things
Unto the climate that they point upon.
1386
SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

=Progress.=

Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs,
And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns.
1387
TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ St. 69.

=Promise.=

And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd,
That palter with us in a double sense:
That keep the word of promise to our ear
And break it to our hope.
1388
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 8.

=Proof.=

Give me the ocular proof;
* * * * *
Make me to see 't; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
To hang a doubt on.
1389
SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Prophecy.=

Coming events cast their shadows before.
1390
CAMPBELL: _Lochiel's Warning._

Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the cloud away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
1391
BYRON: _Bride of Ab.,_ Canto ii., St. 20.

=Prose.=

And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad,
It is not poetry, but prose run mad.
1392
POPE: _Prol. to Satires,_ Line 186.

And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose.
1393
COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. iv., Line 514.

=Proselytes.=

The greatest saints and sinners have been made
Of proselytes of one another's trade.
1394
BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 315.

=Prospects.=

As distant prospects please us, but when near
We find but desert rocks and fleeting air.
1395
SAMUEL GARTH: _Dispensatory,_ Canto iii., Line 27.

=Prosperity.=

Prosperity's the very bond of love;
Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together
Affliction alters.
1396
SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Surer to prosper than prosperity
Could have assured us.
1397
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 39.

=Providence.=

There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow.
1398
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act v., Sc. 2.

What in me is dark
Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That, to the height of this great argument,
I may assert Eternal Providence
And justify the ways of God to men.
1399
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 22.

Who finds not Providence all good and wise,
Alike in what it gives, and what denies?
1400
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 205.

'T is Providence alone secures
In every change both mine and yours.
1401
COWPER: _A Fable. Moral._

=Prudence.=

Henceforth His might we know, and know our own,
So as not either to provoke, or dread
New war, provoked.
1402
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 643.

Where passion leads or prudence points the way.
1403
ROBERT LOWTH: _Choice of Hercules,_ i.

=Prudery.=

Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show
She might be young some forty years ago,
Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips,
Her head erect, her fan upon her lips,
Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray
To watch yon amorous couple in their play,
With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies
The rude inclemency of wintry skies,
And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs,
Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers.
1404
COWPER: _Truth,_ Line 13.

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