- CHAOS ##
CHAOS
Temple and tower went down, nor left a site:—
Chaos of ruins!
The world was void,
The populous and the powerful was a lump,
Seasonless, herbless, treeless, manless, lifeless—
A lump of death—a chaos of hard clay.
The chaos of events.
| author = Byron
| work = Prophecy of Dante.
| place = Canto II. L. 6.
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| page = 97
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>Chaos, that reigns here
In double night of darkness and of shades.
Fate shall yield
To fickle Chance, and Chaos judge the strife.
Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night,
To blot out order and extinguish light.
Lo: thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored;
Light dies before thy uncreating word:
Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall;
And universal darkness buries all.
| author = Pope
| work = Dunciad.
| place = Bk. IV. L. 649.
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| page = 97
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem> Nay, had I power, I should
Pour the sweet milk of concord into hell,
Uproar the universal peace, confound
All unity on earth.
Macbeth. Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 97.
CHARACTER
There is so much good in the worst of us,
And so much bad in the best of us,
That it ill behoves any of us
To find fault with the rest of us.
Sometimes quoted "To talk about the rest of
us." Author not found. Attributed to R.
L. Stevenson, not found. Lloyd Osbome,
his literary executor, states he did not write
it. Claimed for Governor Hoch of Kansas, in The Reader, Sept. 7, 1907, but authorship denied by him. Accredited to Ellen
Thorneycroft Fowler, who denies writing it. Claimed also for Elbert Hubbard.
| seealso = (See also Miller, Stringer)
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| page = 97
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = They love, they hate, but cannot do without him.
| author = Aristophanes
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| note = See Plutarch—Life of All cibiades. Langhorne's trans.
| seealso = (See also Martial; also Addison, under Love)
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| page = 97
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{{Hoyt quote
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| text = <poem>In brief, I don't stick to declare, Father Dick,
So they call him for short, is a regular brick;
A metaphor taken—I have not the page aright—
From an ethical work by the Stagyrite.
Barham—Brothers of Birchington. Nicomachean Ethics, section I, records Aristotle's
definition of a nappy man, a four cornered,
perfectly rectangular man, a faultless cube.
("A perfect brick.
