226 ENTHUSIASM ENVY
Heaven forbids, it is true, certain gratifications, but there are ways and means of compounding such matters.
Moliere—Tartuffe. Act IV. Sc. 5.
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest,
Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
| author = Pope
| work = Essay on Man. Kp. III. L. 79.
Sleep, riches, and health, to be truly enjoyed,
must be interrupted.
Richter—Flour, Fruit, and Thorn Pieces.
Ch. VIII.
Je l'ai toujours dit et senti, la veritable jouissance ne se decrit point.
I have always said and felt that true enjoyment can not be described.
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| work = Confessions. VIII.
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| text = You were made for enjoyment, and the world
was filled with things which you will enjoy,
unless you are too proud to be pleased by them,
or too grasping to care for what you cannot turn
to other account than mere delight.
Ruskln—Stones of Venice. Vol. I. Ch. II.
2.
Res severa est verum gaudium
A thing seriously pursued affords true enjoyment.
Seneca—Epistles. XXIII. 3. 4.
Quam vellem Iongas tecum requiescere noctes,
Et tecum longos pervigilare dies.
How could I, blest with thee, long nights
employ;
And how with thee the longest day enjoy!
TiBtTLLUS—Carmina. III. 6. 53.
ENTHUSIASM
However, 'tis expedient to be wary:
Indifference certes don't produce distress;
And rash enthusiasm in good society
Were nothing but a moral inebriety.
| author = Byron
| work = Don Juan. Canto XIII. St. 35.
No wild enthusiast ever yet could rest,
Till half mankind were like himself possess'd.
| author = Cowper
| work = Progress of Error. L. 470.
Enthusiasm is that secret and harmonious
spirit which hovers over the production of
genius, throwing the reader of a book, or the
spectator of- a statue, into the very ideal presence
whence these works have really originated. A
great work always leaves us in a state of musing.
Isaac D'Israeli—Literary Character. Ch.
XII. Last lines.
Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.
Emerson—Essay. On Circles. Last Par.
Zwang erbittert die Schwarmer immer, aber
bekehrt sie nie.
Opposition embitters the enthusiast but
never converts him.
Schiller—Cabale und IAebe. III. 1.
Sonderbarer Schwarmer!
Enthusiast most strange.
Schiller—Don Carlos. III. 10. 277.
Enthusiasm is that temper of the mind in
which the imagination has got the better of the
judgment.
Bishop WarBurton—Divine Legation. Bk.
V. App.
ENVY
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| text = With that malignant envy which turns pale,
And sickens, even if a friend prevail.
Churchill—The Rosciad. L. 127.
Rabiem livoris acerbi
Nulla potest placare quies.
Nothing can allay the rage of biting envy.
Claudianus—De Raptu Proserpina;. III.
290.
Envy's a sharper spur than pay:
No author ever spar'd a brother.
Gay—Fables. Pt. I. Fable 10.
Fools may our scorn, not envy, raise.
For envy is a kind of praise.
Gay—The Hound and the Huntsman.
But, oh! what mighty magician can assuage
A woman's envy?
Envy not greatness: for thou mak'st thereby
Thyself the worse, and so the distance greater.
| author = Herbert
| work = The Church. Church Porch. St.
44.
It is better to be envied than pitied.
Herodotus—Thalia (Same idea in Pindar}})
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| text = <poem>The artist envies what the artist gains,
The bard the rival bard's successful strains.
Hesiod—Works and Days. Bk. I. L. 43.
Invidus alterius marescit rebus opimis;
Invidia Siculi non invenere tyranni
Majus tormentum.
The envious pine at others' success; no
greater punishment than envy was devised
by Sicilian tyrants.
Horace—Epistles. I. 2. 57.
Ego si risi quod ineptus
Pastillos Rufillus olet, Gargonius hircum, lividus
et mordax videar?
If I smile at the strong perfumes of the
silly Rufillus must I be regarded as envious
and ill-natured?
Horace—Satires. I. 4. 91.
Envy! eldest-born of hell!
Charles Jennens of Gopsall. Also ascribed
toNsrwBURGH Hamilton. Chorus of Handel's Oratorio, Saul.
Invidiam, tamquam ignem, summa petere.
Envy, like fire, soars upward.
Livy—Annales. VIII. 31.
