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, GRAY.-Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 10. Of such materials wretched men were made. Let me have men about me that are fat; SHAKSPERE. Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. 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 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; 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; 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, 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 Essential love. 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, 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.-And if you can be merry then, I'll say 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.] |