The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-12-25
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questions and I'll tell lyon no lies" know
that the tantalizing response 10 .aSdirect
quotation from Goldsmith To him we
are also indebted for "TheSe little things
are great TO little men," And in Gold
smiths Hermit we find " Man wants
but little here below, nor wants that little
long;" but earlier than that, Or. Young
had said, in his "Night Thoughts
"Man wants but little, nor that little
long" "All that glitters is not gold,D
is from Shakespeare. 1@ "''F % 81
"Aquestion arose at q small party as to
the origin Of a line familiar to nearly
every one present, What shadows we
are, what shadows we pursued and after
great diversity Of opinion and consider.
able search, Il was found that not one Of
the company had given the true source.
II is from a'speech of Edmund Burke,
delivered at Bristol, on declining the
poll 1850. .'%,'l "' 'i5.' i
Daniel Defoe Is quoted rs the author
Of the proverb, " God no sooner builds q
church than the devil puts up d chapel
Defoe wrote poem, one verse Of which
was as follows: 2' 5,iI ''.'"'n'l' Dr.. :
Whenever God erects house Of prayer, "
The devil Is Sure 70 Build chapel there;
And twill be found , upon examination,
Tho latter has the largest congregation: /"
But, in writing this, Defoe only versi-
fed a well-known proverb Of his day.
Burton, in his Anatomy Of NMelan-
choly,n says: =" Where God hath a temple
the devil will have chapel ;nand Her.
bert, in his Jacula Prudentum, expresses
the same idea. st' nliAs1.s. - i.'-. (
"Though the mills Of God grind slowly,
yet they grind exceedingly small" may
be found among Longfellow's Poetical
Aphorisms, and is a translation from
Frederick Won Logan, writer Of the
seventeenth century. From Pope's rich
stores Of thought we gather many popular
maxims. f
"Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a
straw "Whatever is, IL right "0rder
Is heavens first law" Honor and shame
from no condition rise;;" "An honest
man Is the noblest work Of God, may all
be found in Pope's Essay on Man. In his
Essay on Criticism, "a little learning is
a dangerous thing" "To err is human,
to forgive divine j" Fools rush in where
angels fear to tread %"Your ease in
writing comes from art, not chance-as
those move easiest who have learned TO
dance.n The well-known line, swell
should you practice who 80 well can
preach occurs in his Wife Of Bath.
There is an Italian proverb used In the
extravaganza Of flattery expressive Of
this idea: "f r's.'I
"When, nature made thee she broke the
Byron uses it in the closing lines Of bis
monody on the death Of Sheridan: p
"sishing that nature formed but ono such
And broke the die In moulding Sheridan. y
The source Of the common saying,
Consistency, thou art a jewel," has puz.
zled many scholar, and whether or not
the following authority may be relied
upon as the starting point, or as only
using borrowed idea, I can not assert.
In a ballad, entitled "Jolly Robyn
Roughhead,p published In 1894, in a
little volume OF English and Scotch bal
lads, the poet bewails the extravaganza
in dress, which he considers the grand
enormity Of his day, and makes Robyn
address his wife as follows: Ia
Tush tush. my lassic such thoughts re-
Companions arc cruel. o,
Fine dresses suit to frames as fno.
Consisteneie's o Jewel!' , '
1--WE live in deeds, not years" Life
| Is but means unto an end, and, "All
uphill work when we would do, all down.
hill when we suffer" are quotations from
Bailey's Festus."
For some time there was a consider
able perplexity as to the origin Of the
familiar line, Though lost to sight, to
memory dear" but Il has been finally
\ settled that it originated with Ruthyen
Jenkyns, and was first published in the
Greenwich Magazine for mariners.in l70l.
although thick and thin," None but
the brave deserve the fair,n and "Death
and deaths half-brother sleep" are from
Dryden.
a'Tis distance lends enchantment to
the view" and "Like angels visits, few
and far between are from Campbell'a
"Pleasures Of Hope" a
Ina collection Of old songs, published
in the sixteenth century, we find, g The
darkest hour Is Just before the dawn"
To those great store-houses Of wise say.
ings, ShaEspeare's works, the following
owe their origin: Double, double toll
and trouble" Brevity Is the soul Of
wit,r" Curses not loud but deep" nMake
assurance doubly sure" "We shall moi
look upon his like again" and so many
others that we find II dangerous, with our
limited space, to even make commence
ment. ..... ...-. .,......... =
"The good die first, and they whose
hearts are as dry as summer dust burn ID
the socket" is from Wordsworth's "Ex.
cursion." BLESSINGS brighten "a they
take flight" from Young's "Nighl
Thoughts" "God made the country
and man made the town. from Cowperl
"Task," which Is also the source Of
"The cup that cheers but not inebriates,'
and the ott-quoted line, "Not much the
worse for wear" ..,..-....., =
L. SOHbtetet AZ hlo PIay VI tuS OAu
Bachelor" gives US Married in haste
we may repent at leisure;" and Music
hath charms to soothe the savage breast
is by the same author, and occurs in hi
Morning Bride" y. l...., :
where ignorance is bliss Ills folly L
be wise,p is IN Gray's code on Elton Col
lege." "Christmas. comes but once I
year" and ut is anil wind that blow
nobody any good" were written BY
Thomas Tusser In 1880. "straws SHOW
which way the wind blows" by jane
Cheatham, and "Out Of sight, out o
mind" by Lord Brooke. .'...
The old phrase, ".There's many q slil
'twixt the cup and the lip" Is . literar!
translation Of an an old Greek hexame
ter line; and when we talk Of smiling
through tears, we are quoting Homer
The happy expression, "nullum qtlod teti
get non ornarit," Is the phrase employee
by DR.. johnson in his epitaph on Gold
smith TO express the genius Of his friend
The line 30 often attributed TO Shak
speare, "a fellow feeling makes one won
drous kind" was written by Garrick II
the occasional prologue spoken by him Of
leaving the stage. Owen Feltham, III
auther OF "The Resolves" IL one OF thos
Inhfortunate man WIN have written man