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And his arrow is tipp'd with a jewel, And shot from a silver string. 1135 WILLIS: _Love in a Cottage._ What is love? 't is nature's treasure, 'T is the storehouse of her joys; 'T is the highest heaven of pleasure, 'T is a bliss which never cloys. 1136 THOMAS CHATTERTON: _The Revenge,_ Act i., Sc. 2. =Luxury.= O Luxury! thou curs'd by heaven's decree, How ill-exchang'd are things like these for thee! How do thy potions, with insidious joy, Diffuse their pleasures only to destroy! 1137 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 395. Blest hour! it was a luxury--to be! 1138 COLERIDGE: _Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement._ ==M.== =Madness.= I am not mad;--I would to heaven I were! For then, 't is like I should forget myself; O, if I could,--what grief should I forget! 1139 SHAKS.: _King John,_ Act iii., Sc. 4. Madness in great ones must not unwatch'd go. 1140 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1. And moody madness laughing wild Amid severest woe. 1141 GRAY: _On a Distant Prospect of Eton College._ =Man.= O, what may man within him hide, Though angel on the outward side! 1142 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act iii., Sc. 2. He was a man, take him for all in all, I shall not look upon his like again. 1143 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2. His life was gentle; and the elements So mix'd in him, that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, "This was a man!" 1144 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act v., Sc. 5. Man is one world, and hath. Another to attend him. 1145 HERBERT: _The Temple._ _Man._ Know then thyself, presume not God to scan, The proper study of mankind is Man. 1146 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 1. What tho' on hamely fare we dine, Wear hoddin gray, and a' that? Gie fools their silks and knaves their wine, A man's a man for a' that! 1147 BURNS: _For a' That and a' That._ Man is a summer's day; whose youth and fire Cool to a glorious evening, and expire. 1148 HENRY VAUGHAN: _Rules and Lessons._ Beyond the poet's sweet dream lives The eternal epic of the man. 1149 WHITTIER: _The Grave by the Lake,_ St. 34. What is man? A foolish baby; Vainly strives, and fights, and frets: Demanding all, deserving nothing, One small grave is all he gets. 1150 CARLYLE: _Cui Bono._ =Manners.= Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves, Where manners ne'er were preach'd. 1151 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act iv., Sc. 1. Manners with fo
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