352 INSTINCT-SENSES. INSTINCT SENSES. 1. The power is Sense, which from abroad doth bring The colour, taste, and touch, and scent, and sound, The quantity and shape of everything, Within earth's centre or earth's circle found. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 2. And though things sensible be numberless, 3. If we had nought but sense, each living wight, In a more clear and excellent degree. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 4. Lastly, nine things to sight requir'd are; The power to see, the light, the visible thing, Being not too small, too thin, too nigh, too far, Clear space, and time, the form distinct to bring. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 5. These wickets of the soul are plac'd on high, Because all sounds do lightly mount aloft; And that they may not pierce too violently, They are delay'd with turns and windings oft. For, should the voice directly strike the brain, It would astonish and confuse it much; Therefore these plaits and folds the sound restrain, That it the organ may more gently touch. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 6. And yet good sense doth purify the brain, Awake the fancy, and the wits refine; Hence old devotion incense did ordain, To make men's spirits apt for thoughts divine. DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 7. By touch the first pure qualities we learn, 8. Which quicken all things-hot, cold, moist and dry; Here streams ascend, That in mix'd fumes the wrinkled nose offend. GAY'S Trivia. 9. In the nice bee what sense, so subtly true, POPE'S Essay on Man. 10. Learn from the birds what food the thickets yield; POPE'S Essay on Man. 11. Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, 12. Tell me why the ant 'Mid summer's plenty, thinks of winter's want? Her full stores, and bring home the corny ear? Lest, hid in earth, and taking root again, POPE. It might elude the foresight of her care? The marks of thought, contrivance, hope, and fear. 13. Evil like us they shun, and covet good; Abhor the poison, and receive the food ; Like us they love or hate; like us they know To joy the friend, or grapple with the foe. PRIOR. PRIOR. 354 INTELLECT - INTENTION, &c. 14. Reason's progressive, Instinct is complete; YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 15. The meaner tribe the coming storm foresees; O'er each blind moment hangs the funeral pall Heaven shines, earth smiles, and night descends on all! 1. Foul jealousy! thou turnest love divine SPENSER'S Fairy Queen. 2. Beware of jealousy; It is the green-eyed monster which doth make 3. The venom clamours of a jealous woman Poison more deadly than a mad-dog's tooth. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 4. Think'st thou I'd make a life of jealousy, 5. I'll see, before I doubt; when I doubt, prove: 6. And, on the proof, there is no more but this SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. Trifles, light as air, SHAKSPEARE. Are to the jealous confirmations strong 7. Pale hag, infernal fury, pleasure's smart!- 8. DANIEL'S Rosamond. Oh! the pain of pains, Is when the fair one, whom our soul is fond of, 9. With groundless fear he thus his soul deceives, What phrenzy dictates, jealousy believes. YOUNG. GAY'S Dione. 10. Yet he was jealous, though he did not show it: For jealousy dislikes the world to know it. BYRON'S Don Juan. 356 JOY-JUSTICE - KINDNESS, &c. 11. For jealousy is but a kind Of clap and gimcam of the mind, As other flames and achings prove. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 12. But there are storms, whose lightnings never glare- 13. And jealousy, that doats and dooms, And murders, yet adores! ISAAC CLASON. CHARLES SPRAGUE. 14. And shall we all condemn, and all distrust, Of light and radiance, which sleep's visions gave, 2. A smile recures the wounding of a frown. SHAKSPEARE. |