to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
2000
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. ii., Line 217.

=Victory.=

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course,
And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory.
2001
SHAKS.: _3 Henry VI.,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

"But what good came of it at last?"
Quoth little Peterkin.
"Why, that I cannot tell," said he;
"But 'twas a famous victory."
2002
ROBERT SOUTHEY: _Battle of Blenheim._

=Village.=

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain.
2003
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village._

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats,
That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets,
Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze
With all a July sun's collected rays,
Delight the citizen, who gasping there,
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air.
2004
COWPER: _Retirement,_ Line 481.

=Villain.=

Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes;
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.
2005
SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

=Vine.=

Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
2006
SHAKS.: _Ant. and Cleo.,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Violet.=

A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
2007
WORDSWORTH: _She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways._

Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
2008
SHELLEY: _Music, When Soft Voices Die._

What thought is folded in thy leaves!
What tender thought, what speechless pain!
I hold thy faded lips to mine,
Thou darling of the April rain!
2009
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: _The Faded Violet._

=Virtue.=

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do;
Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike
As if we had them not.
2010
SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
2011
SHAKS.: _Henry III.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

Assume a virtue if you have it not.
2012
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt;
Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd;
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm,
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
2013
MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 589.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed,
What then? Is the reward of virtue bread?
2014
POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 149.

=Vision.=

And in clear dream a