If ever you have looked on better days;
If ever been where bells have knolled to church.
As You Like It, Act ii. Sc. 7. SHAKESPEARE.
O, who can hold a fire in his hand
By thinking on the frosty Caucasus?
Or cloy the hungry edge of appetite
By bare imagination of a feast?
Or wallow naked in December snow,
By thinking on fantastic Summer's heat?
O, no! the apprehension of the good
Gives but the greater feeling to the worse.
King Richard II., Act i. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
A poor, infirm, weak, and despised old man.
King Lear, Act iii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.
Eating the bitter bread of banishment.
King Richard II., Act iii. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
For sufferance is the badge of all our tribe.
Merchant of Venice, Act i. Sc. 8. SHAKESPEARE.
Lord of himself,—that heritage of woe!
Lara, Canto I. LORD BYRON.
Lord of thy presence, and no land beside.
King John, Act i. Sc. 1. SHAKESPEARE.
Heaven is not always angry when he strikes,
But most chastises those whom most he likes.
Verses to his Friend under Affliction. J. POMFRET.
As sunshine, broken in the rill,
Though turned astray, is sunshine still.
Fire Worshippers. T. MOORE.
On Fortune's cap we are not the very button.
Hamlet, Act ii. Sc. 2. SHAKESPEARE.