CRAFTY ADVICE.- Rowe. Learn to dissemble wrongs, to smile at injuries, Search, and know all mankind's mysterious ways; This is the way, This only, to be safe in such a world as this is. CRAFTY MALIGNITY. - Milton. Let me not forget what I have gained From their own mouths: All is not theirs, it seems; To keep them low. whom knowledge might exalt DEATH.- Young. Will toys amuse, when med'cines cannot cure? As lands, and cities, with their glittering spires, DESIRE AND DREAD OF DEATH.- Byron. This vital weight upon the struggling heart, Which sinks with sorrow, or beats quick with pain, Grey hair'd with anguish, like the blasted pines, Having been otherwise! Now furrow'd o'er With wrinkles, plough'd by moments, not by years; DISAPPOINTED ENVY. Three great ones of the city, Shakespeare. In personal suit to make me his lieutenant, And, in conclusion, nonsuits My mediators; for, certes. says he, I have already chose my officer. And what was he? Forsooth, a great... arithmetician, One Michael Cassio, a Florentine. . . a fellow That never set a squadron in the field, Nor the division of a battle knows More than a spinster - unless the bookish theorick, As masterly as he :-mere prattle, without practice, And I. (O, bless the mark!) his Moorship's ... Ancient. Not by the old gradation, where each Second DISDAINFUL SCORN.— - Byron. I could not tame my nature down; for he DISGUST. There may be in the cup a spider steeped, If one present the abhorred ingredient To his eye-make known how he hath drunk, and sue He... cracks his gorge—his sides, with violent hefts ☎ DISINTERESTED LOVE.-J. Sheridan Knowles. O, to be cherished for oneself alone! To owe the love that cleaves to us, to naught We shall be loved! Kings, from their thrones cast down, That hardly bowed to them in plenitude, Has kissed the dust before them, stripped of all! DISSEMBLED LOVE. Shakespeare. Think not I love him, though I ask for him; 'Tis but a peevish boy;- yet he talks well: But what care I for words? yet words do well... When he that speaks them pleases those that hear. It is a pretty youth... not very pretty : But, sure, he's proud... and yet his pride becomes him... He'll make a proper man. The best thing in him Is his complexion:- and faster than his tongue Did make offence, his eye did heal it up. There was a pretty redness in his lip; ... A little riper and more lusty red Than that mix'd in his cheek;-'twas just the difference There be some women, Silvius, had they mark'd him To fall in love with him; but, for my part. nor hate him not;- and yet He said, mine eyes were black, and my hair black; But that's all one; omittance is no quittance. DISTRUST. Shakespeare. Glamis thou art, and Cawdor;—and shalt be... To catch the nearest way. Thou wouldst be great ;- Art not without ambition; but without The illness should attend it. What thou wouldst highly And yet wouldst wrongly win: thou'dst have, great Glamis. That which cries. Thus thou must do, if thou have it : And that which rather thou dost fear to do, Than wishest should be undone. Hie thee hither.- EMULATION IN "GENTILITY."- Household Words. Here's the... plumber painter and glazier...come to take the funeral order -- which he is going to give to the sexton who is going to give it to the clerk-who is going to give it to the carpenter --who is going to give it to the furnishing undertaker · who is going to divide it with the Black Jobmaster. Hearse and four, Sir?"-- says he.-" No; a pair will be sufficient.""I beg your pardon, Sir, but when we buried Mr. Grundy, at number twenty. there were four. Sir...I think it right to mention it.”—" Well, perhaps there had better be four."--"Thank you, Sir." "Two coaches and four, Sir, shall we say?"-" No, coaches and pair." "You'll excuse my mentioning it, Sir, but pairs to the coaches, and four to the hearse, would have a singular appearance to the neighbours. (?) When we put four to anything, we always carry four right through."—"Well! say four!"--"Thank you, Sir. Feathers, of course?"- "No:- No feathers. They're absurd."-"Very good, Sir, No feathers!"--"No." " Very good, *This emphasis on a word already used in the sentence may seem a violation of the Principle of Emphasis, but it is not so; "do" is here equivalent to “do do' as opposed to " can do." Sir. We can do fours without feathers. Sir- but it's what we never do. *— When we buried Mr. Grundy, we had feathers and - I only throw it out. Sir- Mrs. Grundy might think it strange Very well! Feathers!" "Thank you, Sir.” And so on through the whole... black job of jobs, because of Mrs. Grundy and... gentility!" ENCOURAGEMENT.- Shakespeare. Great Lord, wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek law to redress their harms. What though the mast be now thrown overboard, And half our sailors swallowed in the flood; Yet lives our pilot still. Is't meet that he Should leave the helm. and, like a fearful lad, With tearful eye add water to the sea, And give more strength to that which hath too much; Which industry and courage might have saved? ENVIOUS CONTEMPT. Shakespeare. I was born free as Cæsar; so were you. And bade him follow: so, indeed. he did. And stemming it with hearts of controversy; I as Eneas, our great ancestor. Did, from the flames of Troy, upon his shoulder The old Anchises bear-so, from the waves of Tiber Did I .. the tired Cæsar! And this man Is now become a God! and Cassius is... A wretched creature and must bend his body If Cæsar carelessly but nod on him. He had a fever when he was in Spain. And, when the fit was on him, I did mark How he did shake,... 'Tis true, — this god did shake. And that same eye, whose bend doth awe the world, |