Virtue.-Pygmies are pygmies still, though perched on Alps;
And pyramids are pyramids in vales.

Each man makes his own stature, builds himself :
VIRTUE alone outbuilds the Pyramids;

Her monuments shall last when Egypt's fall.

YOUNG, Night, vi. 1. 309.

The first VIRTUE, sone, if thou wilt lere,
Is to restreine, and kepen wel thy tonge.

CHAUCER, Canterbury Tales, Manciple's Tale, 1. 226.

VIRTUE alone is true nobility.

STEPNEY'S Eighth Satire of Juvenal.

VIRTUE is bold, and goodness never fearful.

SHAKESPERE, Measure for Measure, act iii. sc. 1.

VIRTUE is her own reward.

DRYDEN, Tyrannic Love, act iii. sc. 1.

VIRTUE is its own reward.-PRIOR, Im. of Horace, bk. iii. ode ii. GRAY, Epistle to Methuen. HOME, Douglas, act iii. sc. 1. VIRTUE is to herself the best reward.

HENRY MORE, Cupid's Conflict.

VIRTUE is like precious odours, most fragrant where they are incensed or crushed; for prosperity doth best discover vice, but adversity doth best discover virtue.-BACON, Of Adversity.

VIRTUE only makes our bliss below,
And all our knowledge is ourselves to know.

POPE, Essay on Man, ep. iv. 1. 397.

VIRTUE, though in rags, will keep me warm.

DRYDEN, Horace, 1. 87.

What cannot beauty, joined with VIRTUE, gain?

Virtues.

Ibid., Cock and Fox, 1. 82.

Besides, this Duncan,

Hath borne his faculties so meek, hath been
So clear in his great office, that his VIRTUES
Will plead like angels, trumpet-tongued, against
The deep damnation of his taking-off.

Be to her VIRTUES very kind;

SHAKESPERE, Macbeth, act i. sc. 7.

Be to her faults a little blind.—PRIOR, An English Padlock.

In VIRTUES nothing earthly could surpass her,

Save thine "incomparable oil," Macassar!

BYRON, Don Juan, canto i. st. 17.

Virtues.

Thyself and thy belongings
Are not thine own so proper, as to waste

Thyself upon thy VIRTUES, they on thee.
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. Spirits are not finely touch'd,

But to fine issues; nor Nature never lends
The smallest scruple of her excellence,

But, like a thrifty goddess, she determines
Herself the glory of a creditor-

Both thanks and use.

SHAKESPERE, Measure for Measure, act i. sc. 1.

Virtuous.-The VIRTUOUS nothing fear but life with shame,
And death's a pleasant road that leads to fame.-LANSDOWNE.

Visage. On his bold VISAGE middle age
Had slightly pressed its signet sage,
Yet had not quenched the open truth
And fiery vehemence of youth:
Forward and frolic glee was there,
The will to do, the soul to dare.

SCOTT, Lady of the Lake, canto i. st. 21.

Vision.-I took it for a fairy VISION

Of some gay creatures of the element,

That in the colours of the rainbow live,

And play i' th' plighted clouds.-MILTON, Comus.

'Twas but a VISION, and visions are but vain.

Visions.-I have seen VISIONS.

DRYDEN, Cock and Fox, 1. 242.

FLETCHER, Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, act iv. sc. 3.

VISIONS of glory, spare my aching sight.

GRAY, The Bard, pt. iii. st. 1.

Vital Spark.-VITAL SPARK of heavenly flame!
Quit, O quit this mortal frame !

POPE, The Dying Christian to his Soul.

Vocation.-'Tis my VOCATION, Hal: 'tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.—SHAKESPERE, King Henry IV., pt. i. act i. sc. 2.

Voice.

Gentle, and low: an excellent thing in woman.

Her VOICE was ever soft,

Ibid., King Lear, act v. sc. 3.

Voice.- The people's VOICE is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

POPE, To Augustus, bk. ii. ep. i. l. 89.

And after the fire a still small VOICE.—1 Kings xix. 12.

I hear a VOICE you cannot hear,
Which says I must not stay;

I see a hand you cannot see,

Which beckons me away.-TICKELL, Colin and Lucy.

W.

Wager. For most men (till by losing rendered sager)

Will back their own opinions by a WAGER.-BYRON, Beppo, st. 27.

Wagers. Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers
Say, fools for arguments use WAGERS.

BUTLER, Hudibras, part ii. canto i. l. 297.

Wake.-WAKE the full lyre and swell the full tide of song.

HEBER, Palestine.

Walnuts.-Across the WALNUTS and the wine.

TENNYSON, The Miller's Daughter.

Wanderers.-But there are WANDERERS o'er Eternity
Whose bark drives on and on, and anchored ne'er shall be.
BYRON, Childe Harold, canto iii. st. 70.

Want.-Every WANT that stimulates the breast
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest.

GOLDSMITH, The Traveller, L. 213.

God forbid that such a scoundrel as WANT should dare to approach me.-SWIFT, To Bolingbroke.

Perpetual emptiness! unceasing change!
No single volume paramount, no code,
No master spirit, no determined road;
But equally a WANT of books and men.

WORDSWORTH, Sonnet, xiii.

War.-Cease to consult, the time for action calls;
WAR, horrid war, approaches to your walls,

POPE, Iliad, book ii. 1. 967.

My sentence is for open WAR.

MILTON, Paradise Lost, book ii. 1. 51.

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Ez fer WAR, I call it murder,—

There you have it, plain and flat;

I don't want to go no furder

Than my Testament for that.-LOWELL, Biglow Papers.

My voice is still for WAR.

Gods! can a Roman senate long debate

Which of the two to choose, slavery or death?

ADDISON, Cato, act ii. sc. 1.

One to destroy is murder by the law;
And gibbets keep the lifted hand in awe;
To murder thousands takes a specious name,
WAR'S glorious art, and gives immortal fame.

YOUNG, Love of Fame, satire vii. line 55.

To be prepared for WAR is one of the most effectual means of preserving peace.-WASHINGTON, Speech to both Houses of Congress, January 8, 1790.

[This was the reply of Palafox, the governor of Saragoza, when summoned to surrender by the French, who besieged that city in 1808.]

WAR, he sung, is toil and trouble,
Honour but an empty bubble.

DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast, v. 5.

BEILBY PORTEUS, Death, 1. 178.

WAR its thousands slays, Peace its ten thousands.

WAR'S a game which, were their subjects wise,

Kings would not play at.

COWPER, The Task, book v. Winter Morning Walk, 1. 18.

WAR, war, is still the cry,-" war even to the knife!"

BYRON, Childe Harold, canto i. st. 86.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER, The Humorous Lieutenant, act i. sc. 1.

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of WAR.

N. LEE, 1692.

Water.-As WATER spilt upon the ground, which cannot be gathered up again.-2 Samuel xiv. 14.

Here lies one whose name was writ in WATER.

KEATS, Dictated for his own Epitaph.

Smooth runs the WATER where the brook is deep.

SHAKESPERE, Henry VI., part ii. act iii. sc. 1.

The conscious WATER saw its God and blushed.

R. CRASHAW, Translation of Epigram on John II.
'Tis a little thing

To give a cup of WATER; yet its draught
Of cool refreshment, drain'd by fever'd lips,
May give a shock of pleasure to the frame
More exquisite than when Nectarean juice
Renews the life of joy in happiest hours.

Sir T. A. TALFOURD, Ion.

Unstable as WATER thou shalt not excel.-Genesis xlix. 4.

WATER, water, everywhere,

And all the boards did shrink;

Water, water, everywhere,

Nor any drop to drink.

COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner, part ii.

Waters. She walks the WATERS like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.

Wave.

BYRON, The Corsair, canto i. st. 3.

When you do dance, I wish you

A WAVE o' the sea, that you ever might do

Nothing but that.-SHAKESPERE, Winter's Tale, act iv. sc. 3

Ways of God.-Just are the WAYS OF GOD,

And justifiable to men;

Unless there be who think not God at all.

What in me is dark

MILTON, Samson Agonistes, 1. 293.

Illumine, what is low raise and support;
That to the height of this great argument
I may assert eternal Providence,

And justify the WAYS OF GOD to men.

Ibid., Paradise Lost, book i. 1. 22.

We.-WE know what we are, but know not what we may be.

SHAKESPERE, Hamlet, act iv. sc. 5.

Weakest.-The WEAKEST goes to the wall.

Ibid., Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 1.