MANNERS.
Those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and actions.
Paradise Lost, Bk. VIII. MILTON.
Of manners gentle, of affections mild;
In wit a man, simplicity a child.
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A safe companion and an easy friend
Unblamed through life, lamented in thy end.
Epitaph on Gay. A. POPE.
Her air, her manners, all who saw admired;
Courteous though coy, and gentle though retired:
The joy of youth and health her eyes displayed,
And ease of heart her every look conveyed.
Parish Register, Pt. II. G. CRABBE.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 3. SHAKESPEARE.
What would you have? your gentleness shall force
More than your force move us to gentleness.
As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
'Tis not enough your counsel still be true;
Blunt truths more mischief than nice falsehoods do.
Essay on Criticism, Pt. III. A. POPE.
Fit for the mountains and the barb'rous caves,
Where manners ne'er were preached.
Twelfth Night, Act iv. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
He was the mildest mannered man
That ever scuttled ship or cut a throat.
Don Juan, Canto III. LORD BYRON.
Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
King Henry VIII., Act iv. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Manners with fortunes, humors turn with climes,
Tenets with books, and principles with times.
Moral Essays, Epistle I. A. POPE.
Plain living and high thinking are no more.
The homely beauty of the good old cause
Is gone; our peace, our fearful innocence.
And pure religion breathing household laws.
Written in London, September, 1802. W. WORDSWORTH.
Eye Nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise;
Laugh where we must, be candid where we can,
But vindicate the ways of God to man.
Essay on Man, Epistle I. A. POPE.