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Well, time cures every wound, and though the scar may remain and occasionally ache, yet the earliest agony of its recent infliction is felt no more." - So saying, he shook Lovel cordially by the hand, wished him good night, and took his leave.
Walter Scott.
There is in souls a sympathy with sounds;
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'd
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave.:
Some chord in unison with what we hear,
Is touch'd within us and the heart replies.
Cowper.
And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleas'd
With melting airs, or martial, brisk, or grave.:
Some chord in unison with what we hear,
Is touch'd within us and the heart replies.
Cowper.
Wherever there is much puffing there is little talent: an.d where every thing is recommended as excellent there is scarcely one thing entitled to that commendation. Bad articles require to be gilded, but the productions of genuine merit are, when 'unadorned, adorned the most.'
It is more difficult to preserve than to acquire : whatever is won may be lost; and to cease to acquire, is to begin to lose.
Ah! say without our hopes, without our fears,
Without the home that plighted love endears;
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh ! what were man ? a world without a sun.
Without the home that plighted love endears;
Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh ! what were man ? a world without a sun.
