RESOLUTION.
Be stirring as the time: be fire with fire:
Threaten the threatener and outface the brow
Of bragging horror: so shall inferior eyes,
That borrow their behaviors from the great,
Grow great by your example and put on
The dauntless spirit of resolution.
King John, Act v. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
My resolution 's placed, and I have nothing
Of woman in me: now from head to foot
I am marble—constant.
Antony and Cleopatra, Act v. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
When two
Join in the same adventure, one perceives
Before the other how they ought to act;
While one alone, however prompt, resolves
More tardily and with a weaker will.
Iliad, Bk. X. HOMER. Trans. of BRYANT.
I pull in resolution, and begin
To doubt the equivocation of the fiend
That lies like truth: "Fear not, till Birnam wood
Do come to Dunsinane."
Macbeth, Act v. Sc. 5. SHAKESPEARE.
In life's small things be resolute and great
To keep thy muscle trained: know'st thou when Fate
Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee,
"I find thee worthy; do this deed for me"?
Epigram. J.R. LOWELL.
REST.
Take thou of me, sweet pillowes, sweetest bed;
A chamber deafe of noise, and blind of light,
A rosie garland, and a weary hed.
Astrophel and Stella. SIR PH. SIDNEY.
And to tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,
Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.
The Excursion, Bk. IV. W. WORDSWORTH.
The wind breathed soft as lover's sigh,
And, oft renewed, seemed oft to die,
With breathless pause between,
O who, with speech of war and woes,
Would wish to break the soft repose
Of such enchanting scene!
Lord of the Isles, Canto IV. SIR W. SCOTT.