IGNORANCE. 1. The truest characters of ignorance Are vanity and pride and arrogance; As blind men use to bear their noses higher 2. As lookers-on feel most delight, That least perceive the juggler's sleight, BUTLER. BUTLER'S Hudibras. 3. But 't is some justice to ascribe to chance The wrongs you must expect from ignorance: 4. By ignorance is pride increas'd; Those most assume who know the least: DAVENANT. GAY's Fables. 5. The lamb thy riot dooms to death to-day, POPE'S Essay on Man. 6. Where ignorance is bliss, 't is folly to be wise. 7. With just enough of learning to misquote. GRAY. BYRON'S English Bards, &c. 336 IMAGINATION - IMMORTALITY, &c. 8. They cannot read, and so don't lisp in criticism; BYRON'S Beppo. 9. Who laughs to scorn the wisdom of the schools, And thinks the first of poets first of fools. SPRAGUE'S Curiosity. IMAGINATION.-(See FANCY.) IMMORTALITY — SOUL. 1. One thinks the soul is air; another, fire; DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 2. But, as the sharpest eye discerneth nought, DAVIES' Immortality of the Soul. 3. Whate'er of earth is form'd, to earth returns; SOMERVILE'S Chase. 4. The soul of man, a native of the skies, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 5. "Tis immortality-'t is that alone YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 6. Let earth dissolve-yon ponderous orb descend, YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 7. When nature ceases, thou shalt still remain, 8. The soul, secure in her existence, smiles At the drawn dagger, and defies its point: The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds! TICKELL. ADDISON'S Cato. 9. It must be so: Plato, thou reasonest well: Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror 10. The soul on earth is an immortal guest, Compell'd to starve at an unreal feast; ADDISON'S Cato. A spark which upward tends by nature's force; A pilgrim, panting for the rest to come; HANNAH MORE. 338 IMMORTALITY - IMPATIENCE, &c. 11. Cold in the dust this perish'd heart may lie, But that which warm'd it once shall never die. CAMPBELL. 12. But I have liv'd, and have not liv'd in vain : 13. Immortality o'ersweeps All pains, all tears, all time, all fears-and peals 66 14. A voice within us speaks that startling word- BYRON. R. H. DANA. IMPATIENCE-PATIENCE. 1. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, 2. For there was never yet philosopher, That could endure the tooth-ache patiently. 3. How poor are they who have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees? SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. SHAKSPEARE. 4. That which in mean men we entitle patience, Is pale, cold cowardice in noble breasts. 5. So tedious is this day, SHAKSPEARE. 6. As is the night before some festival To an impatient child, that hath new robes, Patience! preach it to the winds; SHAKSPEARE. To roaring seas, or raging fires! The knaves 7. O ye cold-hearted, frozen formalists! YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 8. Patience and resignation are the pillars Of human peace on earth. YOUNG'S Night Thoughts. 9. But patience is the virtue of an ass, LORD LANSDOwne. 10. Oh how impatience gains upon the soul, MRS. TIGHE'S Psyche. IMPRISONMENT-PRISON, &c. 1. A prison! heavens,—I loathe the hated name, TOM BROWN. |