igh:
I used to think their slender tops
Were close against the sky;
It was a childish ignorance,
But now 'tis little joy
To know I'm farther off from heaven
Than when I was a boy.
1472
HOOD: _I Remember, I Remember._

=Remorse.=

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows,
If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews
Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,
It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost,
Weeps only tears of poison.
1473
COLERIDGE: _Remorse,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Renown.=

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.
1474
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. ix., Line 535.

=Repartee.=

A man renown'd for repartee
Will seldom scruple to make free
With friendship's finest feeling,
Will thrust a dagger at your breast,
And say he wounded you in jest,
By way of balm for healing.
1475
COWPER: _Friendship,_ Line 16.

=Repentance.=

Who by repentance is not satisfied
Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are pleased;
By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased.
1476
SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long!
1477
SCHILLER: _Lay of the Bell,_ St. 4.

Repentance is the weight
Of indigested meals eat yesterday.
1478
GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears
Her snaky crest.
1479
THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 996.

=Repose.=

The best of men have ever loved repose:
They hate to mingle in the filthy fray,
Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows,
Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.
1480
THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., St. 17.

Her suffering ended with the day,
Yet lived she at its close,
And breathed the long, long night away,
In statue-like repose.
1481
JAMES ALDRICH: _A Death-Bed._

=Reproof.=

Fear not the anger of the wise to raise;
Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
1482
POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 23.

Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.
1483
LOVER: _Rory O'More._

=Reputation.=

The purest treasure mortal times afford,
Is spotless reputation; that away,
Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
1484
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

At every word a reputation dies.
1485
POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iii., Line 16.

=Resignation.=

But Heaven hath a hand in these events;
To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
1486
SHAKS.: _Richard II._ Act v., Sc. 2.

While Resignation gently slopes away,
And all