While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

The pregnant quarry teem'd with human form.

There is yet a silent agony in which the mind appears to disdain all external help, and broods over its distresses with gloomy reserve. This is the most dangerous state of mind; accidents or friendships may lessen the louder kinds of grief, but all remedies for this must be had from within, and there despair too often finds the most deadly enemy.

A modest woman, dressed out in all her finery, is the most tremendous object of the whole creation.

You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on . . .

On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting.

Some fleeting good, that mocks me with the view.