Sublime Philosophy!
Thou art the patriarch's ladder, reaching heaven,
And bright with beckoning angels;—but alas!
We see thee, like the patriarch, but in dreams.
By the first step,—dull slumbering on the earth.
Richelieu, Act iii. Sc. 1. E. BULWER-LYTTON.
Not so the son; he marked this oversight.
And then mistook reverse of wrong for right;
(For What to shun, will no great knowledge need,
But What to follow, is a task indeed!)
Moral Essays, Epistle III. A. POPE.
He knew what's what, and that's as high
As metaphysic wit can fly.
Hudibras, Pt. I. DR. S. BUTLER.
His cogitative faculties immersed
In cogibundity of cogitation.
Chronon, Act i. Sc. 1. H. CAREY.
When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter,"
And proved it—'t was no matter what he said.
Don Juan, Canto XI. LORD BYRON.
Thinking is but an idle waste of thought.
And naught is everything and everything is naught.
Rejected Addresses: Cui Bono? H. AND J. SMITH.
HORATIO.—O day and night, but this is wondrous strange!
HAMLET.—And therefore as a stranger give it welcome.
There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio,
Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.
Hamlet, Act i. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
PITY.
Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Oroonoko, Act ii. Sc. 2. T. SOUTHERNE.
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks;
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
As you would beg, were you in my distress:
A begging prince what beggar pities not?
King Richard IV., Act i. Sc. 4. SHAKESPEARE.