Go to your bosom;
Knock there, and ask your heart what it doth know.
Measure for Measure, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
O ignorant, poor man! what dost thou bear
Locked up within the casket of thy breast?
What jewels and what riches hast thou there?
What heavenly treasure in so weak a chest?
Worth of the Soul. SIR J. DAVIES.
Let Fortune empty all her quiver on me;
I have a soul that like an ample shield,
Can take in all, and verge enough for more.
Sebastian, Act i. Sc. 1. J. DRYDEN.
And keeps that palace of the soul serene.
Of Tea. E. WALLER.
A happy soul, that all the way
To heaven hath a summer's day.
In Praise of Lessius' Mule of Health. R. CRASHAW.
And rest at last where souls unbodied dwell,
In ever-flowing meads of Asphodel.
Odyssey, Bk. XXIV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
SPEECH.
Persuasive speech, and more persuasive sighs,
Silence that spoke, and eloquence of eyes.
Iliad, Bk. XIV. HOMER. Trans. of POPE.
Discourse may want an animated "No"
To brush the surface, and to make it flow;
But still remember, if you mean to please,
To press your point with modesty and ease.
Conversation. W. COWPER.
One whom the music of his own vain tongue
Doth ravish like enchanting harmony.
Love's Labor's Lost, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.