Part 10
Over the trackless past, somewhere, Lie the lost days of our tropic youth, Only regained by faith and prayer, Only recalled by prayer and plaint: Each lost day has its patron saint. 1306 BRET HARTE: _The Lost Galleon,_ Last St.
Build thee more stately mansions, O my soul, As the swift seasons roll! Leave thy low-vaulted past! 1307 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Chambered Nautilus._
=Patience.=
How poor are they, that have not patience! What wound did ever heal, but by degrees? 1308 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act ii., Sc. 3.
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubim. 1309 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.
Patience is more oft the exercise Of saints, the trial of their fortitude, Making them each his own deliverer, And victor over all That tyranny or fortune can inflict. 1310 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 1287.
Patience is a plant That grows not in all gardens. 1311 LONGFELLOW: _Michael Angelo,_ Pt. ii., 4.
There are times when patience proves at fault. 1312 ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 3.
=Patriotism.=
Strike--for your altars and your fires; Strike--for the green graves of your sires; God, and your native land! 1313 FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: _Marco Bozzaris._
One flag, one land, one heart, one hand, One Nation evermore! 1314 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _Voyage of the Good Ship Union._
My country, 't is of thee, Sweet land of liberty,-- Of thee I sing: Land where my fathers died, Land of the pilgrims' pride, From every mountain side Let freedom ring. 1315 SAMUEL F. SMITH: _National Hymn._
Sail on, O Ship of State! Sail on, O Union, strong and great! Humanity with all its fears, With all the hopes of future years, Is hanging breathless on thy fate! 1316 LONGFELLOW: _Building of the Ship._
=Peace.=
A peace is of the nature of a conquest; For then both parties nobly are subdued, And neither party loser. 1317 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.
I, in this weak piping time of peace, Have no delight to pass away the time, Unless to see my shadow in the sun. 1318 SHAKS.: _Richard III.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
Why prate of peace? when, warriors all, We clank in harness into hall, And ever bare upon the board Lies the necessary sword. 1319 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: _The Woodman._
Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. 1320 MILTON: Sonnet xvi.
Peace was on the earth and in the air. 1321 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _The Ages,_ St. 30.
=Pearls.=
Go boldly forth, my simple lay, Whose accents flow with artless ease, Like orient pearls at random strung. 1322 SIR WILLIAM JONES: _A Persian Song of Hafiz._
=Pen.=
Beneath the rule of men entirely great, The pen is mightier than the sword. 1323 BULWER-LYTTON: _Richelieu,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.
This dull product of a scoffer's pen. 1324 WORDSWORTH: _Excursion,_ Bk. ii.
=People.=
And what the people but a herd confus'd, A miscellaneous rabble, who extol Things vulgar, and, well weigh'd, scarce worth the praise? 1325 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iii., Line 49.
=Perfection.=
One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne'er saw her match, since first the world begun. 1326 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
=Perjury.=
At lovers' perjuries, They say, Jove laughs. 1327 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.
=Perseverance.=
Perseverance, dear my lord, Keeps honor bright. To have done, is to hang Quite out of fashion, like a rusty mail In monumental mockery. 1328 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
=Persuasion.=
He from whose lips divine persuasion flows. 1329 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. vii., Line 143.
=Petitions.=
Petition me no petitions, sir, to-day; Let other hours be set apart for business. 1330 FIELDING: _Tom Thumb the Great,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
=Philosophy.=
How charming is divine Philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets, Where no crude surfeit reigns. 1331 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 476.
=Physic.=
Throw physic to the dogs, I'll none of it. 1332 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel. 1333 SHAKS.: _King Lear,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.
=Piety.=
Why should not piety be made, As well as equity, a trade, And men get money by devotion, As well as making of a motion? 1334 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 295.
=Pilot.=
Oh pilot, 'tis a fearful night! There's danger on the deep. 1335 THOMAS HAYNES BAYLY: _The Pilot._
=Pines.=
Risest from forth thy silent sea of pines. 1336 COLERIDGE: _Hymn in the Vale of Chamouni._
=Pipe.=
Divine in hookas, glorious in a pipe When tipp'd with amber, mellow, rich, and ripe. 1337 BYRON: _The Island,_ Canto ii., St. 19.
=Pity.=
Pity is the virtue of the law, And none but tyrants use it cruelly. 1338 SHAKS.: _Timon of A.,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.
Careless their merits or their faults to scan, His pity gave ere charity began. 1339 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 161.
=Place.=
The fittest place where man can die Is where he dies for man! 1340 MICHAEL J. BARRY: _The Dublin Nation, Sept. 28, 1844._
=Play.=
The play 's the thing Wherein I'll catch the conscience of the king. 1341 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.
=Pleasure.=
Pleasure, and revenge, Have ears more deaf than adders, to the voice Of any true decision. 1342 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.
But not e'en pleasure to excess is good: What most elates, then sinks the soul as low. 1343 THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., St. 63.
Pleasure must succeed to pleasure, else past pleasure turns to pain. 1344 ROBERT BROWNING: _La Saisiaz,_ Line 170.
But pleasures are like poppies spread, You seize the flower, its bloom is shed. 1345 BURNS: _Tam o' Shanter._
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. 1346 DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 97.
=Poetry--Poets.=
It is not poetry that makes men poor; For few do write that were not so before. 1347 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 441.
A verse may find him who a sermon flies, And turn delight into a sacrifice. 1348 HERBERT: _Temple, Church Porch,_ St. 1.
Poets are all who love, who feel great truths, And tell them; and the truth of truths is love. 1349 BAILEY: _Festus,_ Sc. _Another and a Better World._
The poor poet Worships without reward, nor hopes to find A heaven save in his worship. 1350 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. i.
God is the PERFECT POET, Who in creation acts his own conceptions. 1351 ROBERT BROWNING: _Paracelsus,_ Sc. 2.
Sweet are the pleasures that to verse belong, And doubly sweet a brotherhood in song. 1352 KEATS: _Epis. to George Felton Mathews._
Blessings be with them, and eternal praise, Who gave us nobler loves and nobler cares.-- The poets who on earth have made us heirs Of truth and pure delight, by heavenly lays. 1353 WORDSWORTH: _Personal Talk._
=Pole.=
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun. 1354 BARTON BOOTH: _Song._
=Pomp.=
Give lettered pomp to teeth of Time, So "Bonnie Doon" but tarry; Blot out the epic's stately rhyme, But spare his "Highland Mary"! 1355 WHITTIER: _Lines on Burns_
=Poppies.=
As full-blown poppies, overcharg'd with rain, Decline the head, and drooping kiss the plain,-- So sinks the youth. 1356 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. viii., Line 371.
=Popularity.=
O, he sits high in all the people's hearts: And that, which would appear offence in us, His countenance, like richest alchymy, Will change to virtue and to worthiness. 1357 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
Bareheaded, popularly low he bow'd, And paid the salutations of the crowd. 1358 DRYDEN: _Palamon and Arcite,_ Bk. iii., Line 689.
=Possession.=
What we have we prize not to the worth, Whiles we enjoy it; but being lacked and lost, Why then we rack the value, then we find The virtue that possession would not show us Whiles it was ours. 1359 SHAKS.: _Much Ado,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
Possession means to sit astride of the world, Instead of having it astride of you. 1360 CHARLES KINGSLEY: _Saint's Tragedy,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
=Poverty.=
My poverty, but not my will, consents. 1361 SHAKS.: _Rom. and Jul.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
If we from wealth to poverty descend, Want gives to know the flatterer from the friend. 1362 DRYDEN: _Wife of Bath,_ Line 485.
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong. They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 1363 SHELLEY: _Julian and Maddalo._
In ev'ry sorrowing soul I pour'd delight, And poverty stood smiling in my sight. 1364 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xvii., Line 505.
=Power.=
What can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think? 1365 DRYDEN: _Medal,_ Line 235.
The good old rule Sufficeth them, the simple plan, That they should take who have the power, And they should keep who can. 1366 WORDSWORTH: _Rob Roy's Grave._
=Prairie.=
Far in the East like low-hung clouds The waving woodlands lie; Far in the West the glowing plain Melts warmly in the sky. No accent wounds the reverent air,-- No footprint dints the sod,-- Low in the light the prairie lies Rapt in a dream of God. 1367 JOHN HAY: _The Prairie._
=Praise.=
Praising what is lost, Makes the remembrance dear. 1368 SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act v., Sc. 3.
Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer, And without sneering teach the rest to sneer. 1369 POPE: _Prologue to the Satires,_ Line 201.
=Prayer.=
Let never day nor night unhallowed pass, But still remember what the Lord hath done. 1370 SHAKS.: _2 Henry VI.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
If by prayer Incessant I could hope to change the will Of him who all things can, I would not cease To weary him with my assiduous cries; But prayer against his absolute decree No more avails than breath against the wind Blown stifling back on him that breathes it forth: Therefore to his great bidding I submit. 1371 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. xi., Line 307.
He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. 1372 COLERIDGE: _Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. vii.
God answers sharp and sudden on some prayers, And thrusts the thing we have prayed for in our face, A gauntlet with a gift in 't. 1373 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. ii.
More things are wrought by prayer Than this world dreams of. 1374 TENNYSON: _Morte d'Arthur,_ Line 247.
=Preaching.=
I preached as never sure to preach again, And as a dying man to dying men. 1375 RICHARD BAXTER: _Love Breathing Thanks and Praise._
=Present.=
The Present, the Present is all thou hast For thy sure possessing; Like the patriarch's angel hold it fast Till it gives its blessing. 1376 WHITTIER: _My Soul and I,_ St. 34.
=Press.=
Here shall the Press the People's right maintain, Unaw'd by influence and unbrib'd by gain. 1377 JOSEPH STORY: _Motto of the "Salem Register."_
=Pride.=
Pride hath no other glass To show itself, but pride; for supple knees Feed arrogance, and are the proud man's fees. 1378 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
And the Devil did grin, for his darling sin Is pride that apes humility. 1379 COLERIDGE: _The Devil's Thoughts._
=Priest.=
No nightly trance or breathèd spell Inspires the pale-eyed priest from the prophetic cell. 1380 MILTON: _Hymn on Christ's Nativity,_ Line 173.
=Primrose.=
A primrose by a river's brim A yellow primrose was to him, And it was nothing more. 1381 WORDSWORTH: _Peter Bell,_ Pt. i., St. 12.
=Printing.=
Blest be the gracious Power, who taught mankind To stamp a lasting image of the mind! 1382 CRABBE: _The Library,_ Line 69.
Some said, "John, print it"; others said, "Not so." Some said, "It might do good"; others said, "No." 1383 BUNYAN: _Pilgrim's Progress, Apology for his Book._
=Prison.=
Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet, take That for an hermitage. 1384 LOVELACE: _To Althea, from Prison,_ iv.
=Procrastination.=
Procrastination is the thief of time: Year after year it steals, till all are fled, And to the mercies of a moment leaves The vast concerns of an eternal scene. 1385 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night i., Line 393.
=Prodigies.=
When these prodigies Do so conjointly meet, let not men say "These are their reasons,--They are natural;" For, I believe, they are portentous things Unto the climate that they point upon. 1386 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
=Progress.=
Yet I doubt not thro' the ages one increasing purpose runs, And the thoughts of men are widen'd with the process of the suns. 1387 TENNYSON: _Locksley Hall,_ St. 69.
=Promise.=
And be these juggling fiends no more believ'd, That palter with us in a double sense: That keep the word of promise to our ear And break it to our hope. 1388 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act v., Sc. 8.
=Proof.=
Give me the ocular proof; * * * * * Make me to see 't; or, at the least, so prove it, That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop, To hang a doubt on. 1389 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
=Prophecy.=
Coming events cast their shadows before. 1390 CAMPBELL: _Lochiel's Warning._
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life, The evening beam that smiles the cloud away, And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray! 1391 BYRON: _Bride of Ab.,_ Canto ii., St. 20.
=Prose.=
And he whose fustian's so sublimely bad, It is not poetry, but prose run mad. 1392 POPE: _Prol. to Satires,_ Line 186.
And Sidney, warbler of poetic prose. 1393 COWPER: _Task,_ Bk. iv., Line 514.
=Proselytes.=
The greatest saints and sinners have been made Of proselytes of one another's trade. 1394 BUTLER: _Misc. Thoughts,_ Line 315.
=Prospects.=
As distant prospects please us, but when near We find but desert rocks and fleeting air. 1395 SAMUEL GARTH: _Dispensatory,_ Canto iii., Line 27.
=Prosperity.=
Prosperity's the very bond of love; Whose fresh complexion, and whose heart together Affliction alters. 1396 SHAKS.: _Wint. Tale,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.
Surer to prosper than prosperity Could have assured us. 1397 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 39.
=Providence.=
There's a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. 1398 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act v., Sc. 2.
What in me is dark 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. 1399 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 22.
Who finds not Providence all good and wise, Alike in what it gives, and what denies? 1400 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 205.
'T is Providence alone secures In every change both mine and yours. 1401 COWPER: _A Fable. Moral._
=Prudence.=
Henceforth His might we know, and know our own, So as not either to provoke, or dread New war, provoked. 1402 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 643.
Where passion leads or prudence points the way. 1403 ROBERT LOWTH: _Choice of Hercules,_ i.
=Prudery.=
Yon ancient prude, whose wither'd features show She might be young some forty years ago, Her elbows pinion'd close upon her hips, Her head erect, her fan upon her lips, Her eyebrows arch'd, her eyes both gone astray To watch yon amorous couple in their play, With bony and unkerchief'd neck defies The rude inclemency of wintry skies, And sails, with lappet-head and mincing airs, Duly at chink of bell to morning prayers. 1404 COWPER: _Truth,_ Line 13.
=Pulpit.=
And pulpit, drum ecclesiastick, Was beat with fist instead of a stick. 1405 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i, Canto i., Line 11.
=Punishment.=
Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed, add wings. 1406 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 699.
=Purity.=
'Tis said the lion will turn and flee From a maid in the pride of her purity. 1407 BYRON: _Siege of Corinth,_ St. 21.
=Purpose.=
Make thick my blood, Stop up the access and passage to remorse; That no compunctious visitings of nature Shake my fell purpose. 1408 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 5.
=Purse.=
Who steals my purse steals trash; 't is something, nothing; 'Twas mine, 'tis his, and has been slave to thousands. 1409 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.
=Pygmies.=
Pygmies are pygmies still, though percht on Alps; And pyramids are pyramids in vales. 1410 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night vi., Line 309.
==Q.==
=Quacks.=
Out, you impostors! Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!--your skill Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill. 1411 MASSINGER: _Virgin-Martyr,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
Void of all honor, avaricious, rash, The daring tribe compound their boasted trash-- Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill: All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill. 1412 CRABBE: _Borough,_ Letter vii., Line 75.
=Quakers.=
Upright Quakers please both man and God. 1413 POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 208.
The Quaker loves an ample brim, A hat that bows to no salaam; And dear the beaver is to him As if it never made a dam. 1414 HOOD: _All Round my Hat._
=Quarrels.=
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in, Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee: 1415 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
They who in quarrels interpose, Must often wipe a bloody nose. 1416 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. i., Fable 34.
=Queen.=
She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen. 1417 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. iii., Line 208.
=Quickness.=
With too much quickness ever to be taught; With too much thinking to have common thought. 1418 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 97.
=Quiet.=
Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell. 1419 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 42.
Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past. 1420 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The Cathedral._
=Quips.=
Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles. 1421 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 25.
=Quotation.=
The devil can cite scripture for his purpose. 1422 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 3.
Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations. 1423 POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 103.
==R.==
=Race.=
He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face. 1424 RICHARD SAVAGE: _The Bastard,_ Line 7.
=Rage.=
Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire 1425 DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 160.
=Rain.=
For the rain it raineth every day. 1426 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain! 1427 LONGFELLOW: _Rain in Summer,_ Sts. 1 and 2.
The rain comes when the wind calls. 1428 EMERSON: _Woodnotes,_ Pt. ii., Line 271.
In winter, when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines. 1429 ALEXANDER SMITH: _A Life Drama,_ Sc. 2.
=Rainbow.=
Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth. 1430 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
That gracious thing made up of tears and light. 1431 COLERIDGE: _Two Founts,_ St. 5.
The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose. 1432 WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 2.
There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things. Philosophy will clip an angel's wings. 1433 KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii.
=Rank.=
Superior worth your rank requires: For that, mankind reveres your sires; If you degenerate from your race, Their merits heighten your disgrace. 1434 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. ii, Fable 11.
The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that. 1435 BURNS: _For a' That and a' That._
=Raptures.=
If such there breathe, go, mark him well! For him no minstrel raptures swell. 1436 SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., St. 1.
=Rashness.=
Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay. 1437 COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 145.
One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death. 1438 HOOD: _The Bridge of Sighs._
=Reading.=
Many books, Wise men have said, are wearisome; who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior, Uncertain and unsettled still remains-- Deep versed in books, and shallow in himself. 1439 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 321.
When the last reader reads no more. 1440 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: _The Last Reader._
Stuff the head With all such reading as was never read: For thee explain a thing till all men doubt it. 1441 POPE: _Dunciad,_ Bk. iv., Line 249.
=Realms.=
These are our realms, no limit to their sway,-- Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey. 1442 BYRON: _Corsair,_ Canto i., St. 1.
=Reason.=
I have no other but a woman's reason; I think him so, because I think him so. 1443 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act i., Sc. 2.
Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. 1444 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iii., Line 97.
I would make Reason my guide. 1445 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: _Conjunction of Jupiter and Venus._
The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me live! 1446 WORDSWORTH: _Ode to Duty._
Indu'd With sanctity of reason. 1447 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 507.
=Rebellion.=
Their weapons only Seem'd on our side, but, for their spirits and souls, This word, rebellion, it had froze them up, As fish are in a pond. 1448 SHAKS.: _2 Henry IV.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
Rebellion now began, for lack Of zeal and plunder, to grow slack. 1449 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 31.
=Rebuff.= Then welcome each rebuff That turns earth's smoothness rough, Each sting that bids nor sit nor stand, but go! 1450 ROBERT BROWNING: _Rabbi Ben Ezra._
=Rebuke.=
Forbear sharp speeches to her; She's a lady So tender of rebukes, that words are strokes, And strokes death to her. 1451 SHAKS.: _Cymbeline,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.
=Reckoning.=
So comes a reck'ning when the banquet's o'er, The dreadful reck'ning, and men smile no more. 1452 GAY: _What D' ye Call It,_ Act ii., Sc. 9.
=Recollection.=
How dear to my heart are the scenes of my childhood, When fond recollection presents them to view. 1453 WORDSWORTH: _The Old Oaken Bucket._
=Reconciliation.=
Never can true reconcilement grow, Where wounds of deadly hate have pierc'd so deep. 1454 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. iv., Line 98.
=Records.=
In records that defy the tooth of time. 1455 YOUNG: _The Statesman's Creed._
=Recreation.=
Sweet recreation barred, what doth ensue But moody and dull melancholy, Kinsman to grim and comfortless despair, And, at her heels, a huge infectious troop Of pale distemperatures, and foes to life? 1456 SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act v., Sc. 1.
Of recreation there is none So free as Fishing is alone; All other pastimes do no less Than mind and body both possess: My hand alone my work can do, So I can fish and study too. 1457 IZAAK WALTON: _The Complete Angler._ _The Angler's Song._
=Redress.=
What need we any spur but our own cause To prick us to redress. 1458 SHAKS.: _Jul. Cæsar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
=Reflection.=
Remembrance and reflection how allied! What thin partitions sense from thought divide! 1459 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. i., Line 225.
=Reformation.=
'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation. 1460 DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue.
=Regret.=
O last regret, regret can die! 1461 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ lxxviii., St. 5.