There was speech in their dumbness, language in their very gesture: they looked, as they had heard of a world ransomed, or one destroyed: A notable passion of wonder appeared in them; but the wisest beholder, that knew no more but seeing, could not say, if the importance were joy, or sorrow: but in the extremity of the one, it must needs be. 13—v. 2. I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light, and heavy. 28-ii. 1. If the measure of thy joy Be heap'd like mine, and that thy skill be more 35-ii. 6. Give me a gash, put me to present pain; And drown me with their sweetness. 553. 33-v. 1. The same. You have bereft me of all words, Only my blood speaks to you in my veins : This description not only contains the beautiful and the sublime, but rises to a still higher sublimity, or, to speak in the style of the Psalmist, to the most highest, in allusion to sacred writ, relating to the two principal articles in the Old and New Testament, the fall of man, and his redemption. Shakspeare makes frequent references to the sacred text, and writes often, not only as a moralist, but as a divine. a Paint, display. The thing imported. And there is such confusion in my powers, 9-iii. 2. My plenteous joys, 15-i. 4. Wanton in fulness, seek to hide themselves Joy had the like conception in our eyes, And, at that instant, like a babe sprung up. 27-i. 2. O rejoice, Beyond a common joy; and set it down 1-v. 1. If after every tempest come such calms, May the winds blow till they have waken'd death! And let the labouring bark climb hills of seas, Olympus-high; and duck again as low As hell 's from heaven! If it were now to die, 'T were now to be most happy; for, I fear, • Blended. My soul hath her content so absolute, When thou, haply, seest 37-ii. 1. Some rare note-worthy object in thy travel; Wish me partaker in thy happiness, When thou dost meet good hap; and, in thy danger, If ever danger do environ thee, Commend thy grievance to my holy prayers, For I will be thy bead's-man. 2-i. 1. To build his fortune, I will strain a little, For herein fortune shews herself more kind 27-i. 1. 9-iv. 1. A most poor man, made tame by fortune's blows: I as free forgive as I would be forgivens. 566. The same. I pardon him as God shall pardon meb. 34-iv. 6. 25-ii. 1. 17-v. 3. f Felt. Sorrows known, not by relation, but by experience. "To whom ye forgive any thing, I forgive also: for if I forgave any thing, to whom I forgave it, for your sakes forgave I it, in the person of Christ."-2 Cor. ii. 10. "If ye forgive men their trespasses, our heavenly Father will also forgive you."-Matt. vi. God, our hope, will succour us The trust I have is in mine innocence, The quality of mercy is not strain'd; It droppeth, as the gentle rain from heaven 26-iv. 4. 9-iv. 1. How shalt thou hope for mercy, rend'ring nonek? 570. Penitence. 9-iv. 1. Who by repentance is not satisfied, Is nor of heaven, nor earth; for these are pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath 's appeas'd1. 2-v. 4. This, in the name of God, I promise here: Ere break the smallest parcel of this vow. 18-iii. 2. It is the purpose, that makes strong the vow: 26-v. 3. It is religion, that doth make vows kept m. 16—iii. 1. "In the integrity of my heart, and innocency of my hands, have I done this."-Gen. xx. 5. "Blessed are the merciful: for they shall obtain mercy." -Matt. v. 7. "If thy brother trespass against thee, rebuke him; and if he repent, forgive him."- Luke vii. 3. m"If a man vow a vow unto the Lord, or swear an oath to bind his soul with a bond; he shall not break his word, he shall do according to all that proceedeth out of his mouth." -Numb. xxx. 2. 'Tis not the many oaths, that make the truth; 11-iv. 2. I have toward heaven breath'd a secret vow, "Tis mad idolatry, 9-iii. 4. To make the service greater than the god°. 26-ii. 2. Thy bones are hollow: impiety hath made a feast of thee P. 578. Apprehension. 5-i. 2. My eye's too quick, my heart o'erweens too much, 579. Fear. Shelves and sands, 23-iii. 2. Huge rocks, high winds, strong pirates, The merchant fears, ere rich at home he lands. Poems. Let pale-faced fear keep with the mean-born man. 22-iii. 1. "When thou shalt vow a vow unto the Lord thy God thou shalt not slack to pay it."-Deut. xxiii. 21. "Their land also is full of idols: they worship the work of their own hands, that which their own fingers have made." -Isa. ii. 8. "Lo, this is the man that made not God his strength; but trusted in the abundance of his riches, and strengthened himself in his wickedness."-Psa. lii. 7. |