I would not my unhoused free condition
Put into circumscription and confine
For the sea's worth.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 2.
(Othello to Iago.)

LIE.-You lie-under a mistake.

SHELLEY.-From Calderon.

Thou liest in thy throat.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4 (Sir Toby to Fabian); King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene 2.

I give him joy, that's awkward at a lie.

YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 361.

Truth never was indebted to a lie.

YOUNG.-Night VIII. Line 587.

The lie circumstantial, and the lie direct.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act V. Scene 4.
(Touchstone to Jaques.)

LIFE. The web of our life is of a mingled yarn,
Good and ill together.

SHAKSPERE.-All's Well that Ends Well, Act IV.
Scene 3. (First Lord to Second Lord.)

Whose life with care is overcast,

That man's not said to live, but last;

Nor is't life, seven years to tell,

But for to live that half seven well.

HERRICK.-Hesp. Pastorals, No. 3.

Thus we lived many years in a state of much happiness; not but that we sometimes had those little rubs which Providence sends to enhance the value of its favours.

GOLDSMITH.—Vicar of Wakefield, Chap I.

After life's fitful fever he sleeps well.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act III. Scene 2.
(To his Lady.)

LIFE. O life! how pleasant in thy morning,
Young fancy's rays the hills adorning!
Cold-pausing caution's lesson scorning,

We frisk away,

Like schoolboys, at the expected warning,

To joy and play.

BURNS.-Epistle to JAMES SMITH, Verse 15.

I bear a charmed life.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7.
(To Macduff.)

To husband out life's taper at the close,
And keep the flames from wasting, by repose.

GOLDSMITH.-Deserted Village, Line 87.

Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of Man;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 3.

Men deal with life as children with their play,
Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.
COWPER.-Hope, Line 127.

To live in hearts we leave behind,
Is not to die.

CAMPBELL.-Hallowed Ground, Verse 6.

Life is a warfare.

SENECA. Of a Happy Life, Chap. VIII.

Life is a navigation.

SENECA. Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXI.

Life's a tragedy.

SIR WALTER RALEIGH.

Life is a jest, and all things show it:
I thought so once, but now I know it.
GAY. "My Own Epitaph."

Life is but a day at most.

BURNS.-Friars' Carse Hermitage.

Longest life is but a day.

WORDSWORTH.-Rob Roy's Grave.

Our whole life is like a play.

BEN JONSON.-Discoveries.

LIFE.-Life is a journey :-on we go
Thro' many a scene of joy and woe.

GEORGE COMBE.-Dr. Syntax, Tour to the Lakes,
Chap. XII.

Life, sir! no prince fares like him; he breaks his fast with Aristotle, dines with Tully, drinks at Helicon, sups with Seneca; then walks a turn or two in the milky-way, and after six hours' conference with the stars, sleeps with old Erra Pater. COLLEY CIBBER.-Love Makes a Man, Act I.

Scene I,

Reason thus with life:

If I lose thee, I do lose a thing

That none but fools would keep: a breath thou art,
(Servile to all the skiey influences,)

That dost this habitation, where thou keepest,
Hourly afflict.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 1. (Duke to Claudio.)

When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat;
Yet, fool'd with hope, men favour the deceit;
None would live past years again,
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.

DRYDEN.-Aurengzebe, Act IV. Scene 1.

"Tis not for nothing that we life pursue;
It pays our hopes with something still that's new:
Each day's a mistress, unenjoyed before;
Like travellers we're pleased with seeing more.
Did you but know what joys your way attend,
You would not hurry to your journey's end.

DRYDEN.-Aurengzebe, Act IV. Scene 1.

Reflect that life, like every other blessing,
Derives its value from its use alone;
Not for itself, but for a nobler end,

Th' Eternal gave it, and that end is virtue.

DR. JOHNSON.-Irene, Act III. Scene 8.

Thou hast nor youth, nor age;

But, as it were, an after-dinner's sleep,

Dreaming on both.

What's yet in this,

That bears the name of life? yet in this life
Lie hid more thousand deaths: yet death we fear

That makes these odds all even.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act III.
Scene 1. (The Duke to Claudio.)

LIFE.-Oppress'd with grief, oppress'd with care,

A burden more than I can bear,

I sit me down and sigh:

O Life! thou art a galling load,
Along a rough, a weary road,
To wretches such as I!

BURNS.-Despondency, Verse 1.

In life's last scene what prodigies surprise,
Fears of the brave, and follies of the wise!

From Marlborough's eyes the streams of dotage flow,
And Swift expires a driveller and a show.

DR. JOHNSON.-Vanity of Human Wishes,
Line 315.

Comes the blind fury with the abhorred shears,
And slits the thin-spun life.

MILTON.-Lycidas, Line 75.

The wine of life is drawn, and the mere lees
Is left this vault to brag of.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene III.
(To Lenox.)

She was a form of life and light,

That, seen, became a part of sight;

And rose, where'er I turned mine eye,

The morning-star of Memory.

BYRON.-The Giaour.

Take not away the life you cannot give,
For all things have an equal right to live.
DRYDEN.-Pythagorean Phil.

Life's but a walking shadow; a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more: It is a tale,
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5.
(On hearing of his Wife's death.)

LIFT-Lift up your heads, O ye gates.

PSALM.-Chap. XXIV. Verse 7.

We directed our steps towards the mansion of a wealthy man, full of precious things. Gates, fly open!

BUCKLEY'S Homer.-The Odyssey, Life of Homer,
Page 29.

LIGHT.-He that has light within his own clear breast,
May sit i' the centre, and enjoy bright day:

But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts,
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun:

Himself is his own dungeon.

MILTON.-Comus, Line 381.

In that I shine confest,

By my own light, in motion or at rest.

ARIOSTO.-Orlando Furioso, Canto XXIII.

Stanza 36. (Rose's Transl.)

Virtue could see to do what virtue would

By her own radiant light.

MILTON.-Comus.

LIKE.-Were I like thee, I'd throw myself away.

SHAKSPERE. Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 3.
(Timon to Apemantus.)

It was not my fault, Major Bridgenorth,
How could I help it? like will to like-

The boy would come-The girl would see him.

SCOTT.-Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XIV.

Like will to like; each creature loves his kind,
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.
HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorisms, 293.

There's not a man among them but must please,
Since they are like each other as are peas.
SWIFT.-Horace, Book Î. Epi. 5.

As like as milk is to milk.

RILEY.-Plautus, The Bacchides, Act I. Scene 2.

As cherry is to cherry.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII. Act V. Scene 1. (Lady to King Henry.)

Almost as like as eggs.

F

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act I. Scene 2.
(Leontes to Mamillius.)

loves the senate, Hockleyhole his brother, Like in all else, as one egg to another,

POPE.-Satire, to Fortescue, Book I. Line 49.

Like Niobe, all tears.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (After his interview with the King, Queen, and Lords.)