Roscommon
Cited as Roscommon. — 40 quotations
Airy
Empty sound, and airy notions.
Comprise
Friendship does two souls in one comprise.
Concern
Mysterious secrets of a high concern.
Conspire
The press, the pulpit, and the stage Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Crack
He thought none poets till their brains were cracked.
Day
His name struck fear, his conduct won the day.
Decency
Immodest words admit of no defense, For want of decency is want of sense.
Drain
Sinking waters, the firm land to drain, Filled the capacious deep and formed the main.
Easiness
With painful care, but seeming easiness.
Frolic
He would be at his frolic once again.
Fume
Silenus lay, Whose constant cups lay fuming to his brain.
Guzzle
Well-seasoned bowls the gossip's spirits raise, Who, while she guzzles, chats the doctor's praise.
Humor
Examine how your humor is inclined, And which the ruling passion of your mind.
Impair
Time sensibly all things impairs.
Jar
A string may jar in the best master's hand.
Leave
Leave off, and for another summons wait.
Match
Let poets match their subject to their strength.
Mechanic
To make a god, a hero, or a king Descend to a mechanic dialect.
Observance
Love rigid honesty, And strict observance of impartial laws.
Overlook
The time and care that are required To overlook and file and polish well.
Possess
For ten inspired, ten thousand are possessed.
Perhaps some footsteps printed in the clay.
Profligate
A race more profligate than we.
Qualm
For who, without a qualm, hath ever looked On holy garbage, though by Homer cooked?
Quarrel
I will not quarrel with a slight mistake.
Remiss
These nervous, bold; those languid and remiss.
Right
You with strict discipline instructed right.
Sense
I speak my private but impartial sense With freedom.
Since
How many ages since has Virgil writ?
Sot
Every sign That calls the staring sots to nasty wine.
Spare
Where angry Jove did never spare One breath of kind and temperate air.
Succinct
Let all your precepts be succinct and clear.
Sully
Statues sullied yet with sacrilegious smoke.
Tame
Tame slaves of the laborious plow.
Tamper
'T is dangerous tampering with a muse.
Thought
Pride, of all others the most dangerous fault, Proceeds from want of sense or want of thought.
Tug
There sweat, there strain, tug the laborious oar.
Tyrannic
Our sects a more tyrannic power assume.
Vogue
Use may revive the obsoletest words, And banish those that now are most in vogue.
Waken
Then Homer's and Tyrtaeus' martial muse Wakened the world.