MEN.-They are but children too, though they have grey hairs they are indeed of a larger size. SENECA.-On Anger, Chap. VIII. To each his sufferings: all are men, Condemn'd alike to groan; The tender for another's pain, The unfeeling for his own. GRAY.-Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 10. Of such materials wretched men were made. BYRON.-The Lament of Tasso, Stanza VI. Let me have men about me that are fat; Men Are masters to their females, and their lords; SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act II. Scene 1. MEND.-To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, POPE.-Prol. to ADDISON'S Cato, Line 1. MENTIONS.-To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite, POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. IV. to BURLINGTON, Line 149. MERCHANT.-The restless merchant, he that loves to steep His brains in wealth, and lays his soul to sleep In bags of bullion, sees th' immortal crown, And fain would mount, but ingots keep him down: He brags to-day, perchance, and begs to-morrow: He lent but now, wants credit now to borrow. Blow, winds, the treasure's gone, the merchant's broke ; QUARLES.-Book II. Emblem 4. MERCHANT.-In Venice state MARSTON.-What You Will, Act I. Strike, louder strike, th' ennobling strings, COLLINS.-Ode to Liberty, Line 42. MERCY.-Sweet mercy is nobility's true badge. SHAKSPERE.-Titus Andronicus, Act I. Scene 2. Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule. COWPER.-The Task, Book VI. Line 595. Mercy is not itself, that oft looks so; Pardon is still the nurse of second woe. SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II. The gates of mercy shall be all shut up. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry V. Act III. Scene 3. Not the king's crown, nor the deputed sword, SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II. Then, everlasting Love, restrain thy will; 'Tis godlike to have power, but not to kill. BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-The Chances, Act II. The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV. It is enthroned in the hearts of kings, It is an attribute to God himself; An earthly power doth then show likest God's When mercy seasons justice. SHAKSPERE.-Ibid. Act IV. Scene 1. R MERCY.-There is no more mercy in him than there is milk in a male tiger. SHAKSPERE -Coriolanus, Act V. Scene 4. Betwixt the stirrup and the ground, Mercy I asked, mercy I found. CAMDEN'S REMAINS.-Quoted by Malone in Boswell's Johnson, Vol. IV. Page 225, 5th Edition; improved by the Doctor as follows: Between the stirrup and the ground, I mercy ask'd, I mercy found. Therefore, Though justice be thy plea, consider this- SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept POLLOK.-The Course of Time, Book III. MERITS.-On their own merits modest men are dumb; "Plaudite et vulete"-TERENCE-Hum! COLMAN-Epilogue to Heir-at-Law, last lines. MERRY.-I had rather have a fool to make me merry, than experience to make me sad. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act IV. Scene 1. I am not merry; but I do beguile The thing I am, by seeming otherwise. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act II. Scene 1. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act V. Scene 1. Jog on, jog on, the footpath way, And merrily hent the stile-a ; A merry heart goes all the day, SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act IV. Scene 2. How oft, when men are at the point of death, Have they been merry. SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 3. (Romeo at Juliet's tomb.) MERRY-MIND. MERRY. And if you can be merry then, I'll say 243 SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Prologue, last lines. METAL.-Yielding Metal flow'd to human form. Here's metal more attractive. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. Why, now I see there's mettle in thee: and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than before. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act IV. Scene 2. By this good light, a wench of matchless mettle. SCOTT.-Fortunes of Nigel, Chap. XIX. METHINKS.-Methinks, I scent the morning's air. MILDLY.-Well, mildly be it then, mildly. SHAKSPERE.-Coriolanus, Act III. Scene 2. MILK.-A land flowing with milk and honey. May the Himera flow with milk instead of water! May the fountain of Sybaris flow with honey! BANKS' Theocritus.-Idyll V. Page 32. MILLINER-He was perfumed like a milliner. MIND.-Were I so tall to reach the pole, I must be measur'd by my soul: The mind's the standard of the man. WATTS.-False Greatness, Verse 3. The mind is the proper judge of the man. SENECA. Happy Life, Chap. I. John Gilpin kiss'd his loving wife; That, though on pleasure she was bent, She had a frugal mind. COWPER.-John Gilpin, Verse 8. MIND. The mind, relaxing into needful sport, Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style, It is the mind that maketh good or ill, SPENSER.-Fairy Queen, Book VI. Canto 9. 'Tis the mind that makes the body rich. SHAKSPERE. Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Strength of mind is exercise, not rest. POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 104. A good mind possesses a kingdom. PROVERB-Motto of the Emperor Nerva; RILEY'S The mind is in fault, which never escapes from itself. How fleet is the glance of the mind And the swift-winged arrows of light. COWPER.-Alex, Selkirk, Verse 6. A monarch clothed with majesty and awe, A mind content both crown and kingdom is. GREENE.-Song, "Sweet are the Thoughts," My mind to me a kingdom is; Such perfect joy therein I find As far exceeds all earthly bliss, That God or nature hath assign'd: Though much I want, that most would have, Yet still my mind forbids to crave. SIR EDMUND DIER. [See "Reliques of Ancient English Poetry," by Thomas Percy, Lord Bishop of Dromore, Vol. I. Page 307; and BYRD'S Psalms, Sonnets, &c. The thought is said to be from Seneca; see the verse in the Thyestes: Mens regnum bona possidet. Gifford's Ed. of Ben Jonson's Plays, Page 28.] |