Footnotes
[217:1] From ignorance our comfort flows.—Prior: To the Hon. Charles Montague.
Where ignorance is bliss,
'T is folly to be wise.
Gray: Eton College, Stanza 10.
For angling rod he took a sturdy oak;
For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke;
. . . . .
His hook was baited with a dragon's tail,—
And then on rock he stood to bob for whale.
From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The Loves of Hero and Leander, published in London in the years 1653 and 1677. Chambers's Book of Days, vol. i. p. 173. Daniel: Rural Sports, Supplement, p. 57.
His angle-rod made of a sturdy oak;
His line, a cable which in storms ne'er broke;
His hook he baited with a dragon's tail,—
And sat upon a rock, and bobb'd for whale.
William King (1663-1712): Upon a Giant's Angling (In Chalmers's "British Poets" ascribed to King.)
SIR THOMAS BROWNE. 1605-1682.
Too rashly charged the troops of error, and remain as trophies unto the enemies of truth.
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. vi.
Rich with the spoils of Nature.[217:3]
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xiii.
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Nature is the art of God.[218:1]
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xvi.
The thousand doors that lead to death.[218:2]
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. xliv.
The heart of man is the place the Devil 's in: I feel sometimes a hell within myself.[218:3]
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. li.
There is no road or ready way to virtue.
Religio Medici. Part i. Sect. lv.
It is the common wonder of all men, how among so many million of faces there should be none alike.[218:4]
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ii.
There is music in the beauty, and the silent note which Cupid strikes, far sweeter than the sound of an instrument; for there is music wherever there is harmony, order, or proportion; and thus far we may maintain the music of the spheres.[218:5]
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. ix.
Sleep is a death; oh, make me try
By sleeping what it is to die,
And as gently lay my head
On my grave as now my bed!
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.
Ruat cœlum, fiat voluntas tua.[218:6]
Religio Medici. Part ii. Sect. xii.
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Times before you, when even living men were antiquities,—when the living might exceed the dead, and to depart this world could not be properly said to go unto the greater number.[219:1]
Dedication to Urn-Burial.
I look upon you as gem of the old rock.[219:2]
Dedication to Urn-Burial.
Man is a noble animal, splendid in ashes and pompous in the grave.
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
Quietly rested under the drums and tramplings of three conquests.
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
Herostratus lives that burnt the temple of Diana; he is almost lost that built it.[219:3]
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
What song the Sirens sang, or what name Achilles assumed when he hid himself among women.
Dedication to Urn-Burial. Chap. v.
When we desire to confine our words, we commonly say they are spoken under the rose.
Vulgar Errors.