But good smock faces, or some qualities And make shew only without touch of substance. Chapman's All Fools. Fortune came smiling to my youth, and woo'd it, Dryden's All for Love. Be juster, Heav'ns! Such virtue punish'd thus, And shuffles with a random hand the lots What trivial influences hold dominion O'er wise men's counsels, and the fate of empire! Ibid. Rowe's Lady Jane Grey, a. 1, s. 1. Look into those they call unfortunate, Young's Revenge, a. 1. Oft, what seems A trifle, a mere nothing, by itself, In some nice situations, turns the scale Of Fate, and rules the most important actions. Thomson's Tancred and Sigismunda, a. 4, s. 1. 110 FORTUNE-FORTUNE-TELLING-FREE-WILL. All human projects are so faintly fram'd, Hannah More's Daniel, pt. 5. Fortune is female: from my youth her favours Byron's Doge of Venice, a. 5, s. 1. FORTUNE-TELLING. Curse on your shallow arts, your lying science! FREE-WILL. Ingrate, he had of me All he could have; I made him just and right, Sufficient to have stood, though free to fall. Such I created all th' ethereal Powers And spirits, both them who stood and them who fail'd ; Freely they stood who stood, and fell who fell. Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 3. They therefore as to right belong'd, So were created, nor can justly accuse Their Maker, or their making, or their fate, As if predestination over-rul'd Their will, dispos'd by absolute decree Or high fore-knowledge; they themselves decreed Foreknowledge had no influence on their fault, Which had no less prov'd certain unforeknown. Ibid. Freely we serve, Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 5. God made thee perfect, not immutable; FRIENDSHIP. Consists not in a multitude of friends, But in their worth and choice. Ibid. Ibid. Ben Jonson's Cynthia's Revels. In their nonage, a sympathy Unusual join'd their loves: They pair'd like turtles; still together drank, Like twining streams both from one fountain fell, Friendship's the privilege Of private men; for wretched greatness knows No blessing so substantial. Tate's Loyal General. Rowe's Lady Jane Grey, a. 1, s. I. Such is the use and noble end of friendship, Higgon's Generous Conqueror. Friendship is still accompany'd with virtue, Trap's Abramule. The friendships of the world are oft Confed'racies in vice, or leagues of pleasure Addison's Cato. You'll find the friendship of the world a show! Savage's Sir Thomas Overbury. I have too deeply read mankind To be amus'd with friendship; 'tis a name Havard's Regulus. Friendship is no plant of hasty growth. Joanna Baillie's De Montford, a. 3, s. 1. I take of worthy men whate'er they give: He who will not give Some portion of his ease, his blood, his wealth, Ibid. Joanna Baillie's Ethwald, a. 1, s. 2. Unequal fortune Made him my debtor for some courtesiies, Which bind the good more firmly. Byron's Doge of Venice, a. 2, s. 1. Friendship! mysterious cement of the soul! FUTURITY. Blair's Grave. Sure there is none but fears a future state; Dryden's Spanish Friar. Divines but peep on undiscover'd worlds, And draw the distant landscape as they please; Dryden's Don Sebastian. Eternity, thou pleasing dreadful thought! 'Thro' what new scenes and changes must we pass ? The wide, the unbounded prospect lies before me; But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it. Addison's Cato. Eternity, thou awful gulph of time, |