"The only art her guilt to cover, To hide her shame from every eye, To give repentance to her lover, And wring his bosom, is--to die."

The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxiv.

"To what fortuitous occurrence do we not owe every pleasure and convenience of our lives."

The Hermit. On Woman. Chap. xxi.

"For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again."

The Art of Poetry on a New Plan (1761). Vol. ii. p. 147.

"One writer, for instance, excels at a plan or a title-page, another works away the body of the book, and a third is a dab at an index."

The Bee. No. 1, Oct. 6, 1759.

"The true use of speech is not so much to express our wants as to conceal them."

The Bee. No. iii. Oct. 20, 1759.

"All human race, from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue."

Universal Love of Pleasure.

"Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers."

Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon.

"Every white will have its blacke, And every sweet its soure."

Reliques of Ancient Poetry. Sir Cauline.

"Late, late yestreen I saw the new moone, Wi' the auld moon in hir arme."

Sir Patrick Spens.

"He that had neyther been kith nor kin Might have seen a full fayre sight."

Guy of Gisborne.

"Have you not heard these many years ago Jeptha was judge of Israel? He had one only daughter and no mo, The which he loved passing well; And as by lott, God wot, It so came to pass, As God's will was."

Jepthah, Judge of Israel.

"A Robyn, Jolly Robyn, Tell me how thy leman does."

A Robyn, Jolly Robyn.

"Where gripinge grefes the hart wounde, And dolefulle dumps the mynde oppresse, There music with her silver sound With spede is wont to send redresse."

A Song to the Lute in Musicke.

"The blinded boy that shootes so trim, From heaven downe did hie."

King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid.

""What is thy name, faire maid?" quoth he. "Penelophon, O King!" quoth she."

King Cophetua and the Beggar-maid.

"And how should I know your true love From many another one? Oh, by his cockle hat and staff, And by his sandal shoone."

The Friar of Orders Gray.

"O Lady, he is dead and gone! Lady, he 's dead and gone! And at his head a green grass turfe, And at his heels a stone."

The Friar of Orders Gray.

"Sigh no more, ladies, sigh no more! Men were deceivers ever; One foot in sea and one on shore, To one thing constant never."

The Friar of Orders Gray.

"Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine; For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne'er make grow againe."

The Friar of Orders Gray.

"He that would not when he might, He shall not when he wolda."

The Friar of Orders Gray.

"We 'll shine in more substantial honours, And to be noble we 'll be good."

Winifreda (1720).

"And when with envy Time, transported, Shall think to rob us of our joys, You 'll in your girls again be courted, And I 'll go wooing in my boys."

Winifreda (1720).

"He was a wight of high renowne, And those but of a low degree; Itt 's pride that putts the countrye doune, Then take thine old cloake about thee."

Take thy old Cloak about Thee.

"A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; Oh willow, willow, willow! With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, Oh willow, willow, willow!"

Willow, willow, willow.

"When Arthur first in court began, And was approved king."

Sir Launcelot du Lake.

"Shall I bid her goe? What if I doe? Shall I bid her goe and spare not? Oh no, no, no! I dare not."

Corydon's Farewell to Phillis.

"But in vayne shee did conjure him To depart her presence soe; Having a thousand tongues to allure him, And but one to bid him goe."

Dulcina.

"The writers against religion, whilst they oppose every system, are wisely careful never to set up any of their own."

A Vindication of Natural Society. Preface, vol. i. p. 7.

""War," says Machiavel, "ought to be the only study of a prince;" and by a prince he means every sort of state, however constituted. "He ought," says this great political doctor, "to consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes ability to execute military plans." A meditation on the conduct of political societies made old Hobbes imagine that war was the state of nature."

A Vindication of Natural Society. Vol. i. p. 15.

"I am convinced that we have a degree of delight, and that no small one, in the real misfortunes and pains of others."

On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. xiv. vol. 1. p. 118.

"Custom reconciles us to everything."

On the Sublime and Beautiful. Sect. xviii. vol. i. p. 231.

"There is, however, a limit at which forbearance ceases to be a virtue."

Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation. Vol. i. p. 273.

"The wisdom of our ancestors."

Observations on a Late Publication on the Present State of the Nation. Vol. i. p. 516. Also in the Discussion on the Traitorous Correspondence Bill, 1793.

"In such a strait the wisest may well be perplexed and the boldest staggered."

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 516.

"When bad men combine, the good must associate; else they will fall one by one, an unpitied sacrifice in a contemptible struggle."

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 526.

"Of this stamp is the cant of, Not men, but measures."

Thoughts on the Cause of the Present Discontents. Vol. i. p. 531.

"The concessions of the weak are the concessions of fear."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 108.

"There is America, which at this day serves for little more than to amuse you with stories of savage men and uncouth manners, yet shall, before you taste of death, show itself equal to the whole of that commerce which now attracts the envy of the world."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 115.

"Fiction lags after truth, invention is unfruitful, and imagination cold and barren."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 116.

"A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle, and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 117.

"A wise and salutary neglect."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 117.

"My vigour relents,--I pardon something to the spirit of liberty."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 118.

"The religion most prevalent in our northern colonies is a refinement on the principles of resistance: it is the dissidence of dissent, and the protestantism of the Protestant religion."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 123.

"I do not know the method of drawing up an indictment against a whole people."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 136.

"The march of the human mind is slow."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 149.

"All government,--indeed, every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act,--is founded on compromise and barter."

Speech on the Conciliation of America. Vol. ii. p. 169.

"The worthy gentleman who has been snatched from us at the moment of the election, and in the middle of the contest, whilst his desires were as warm and his hopes as eager as ours, has feelingly told us what shadows we are, and what shadows we pursue."

Speech at Bristol on Declining the Poll. Vol. ii. p. 420.

"They made and recorded a sort of institute and digest of anarchy, called the Rights of Man."

On the Army Estimates. Vol iii. p. 221.

"People will not look forward to posterity who never look backward to their ancestors."

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 274.

"You had that action and counteraction which, in the natural and in the political world, from the reciprocal struggle of discordant powers draws out the harmony of the universe."

Reflections on the Revolution in France. Vol. iii. p. 277.