MEMORY MERCY
Looking on the lines Of my boy's face, my thoughts I did recoil Twenty-three years; and saw myself unbreech'd, In my green velvet coat, my dagger muzzled, Lest it should bite its master, and so prove, As ornaments oft do, too dangerous. Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 153.
Thou comest as the memory of a dream, Which now is sad because it hath been sweet. Shelley—Prometheus Unbound. Act II. Sc. 1. Heu quanto minus est cum reliquis versari quam tui meminisse. Ah, how much less all living loves to me, Than that one rapture of remembering thee. The Latin is Shenstone's Epitaph to the memory of his cousin Mary Dolman, on an ornamental Urn. The trans, is by Arthur J. Munby. </poem>
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The Right Honorable gentleman is indebted to
his memory for his jests and to his imagination
for his facts.
R. B. Sheridan:—Attributed to hiin in report
of a Speech in Reply to Mr. Dundas. Not
found in his works but the idea exists in
loose sketches for a comedy.
Nobis meminisse relictum.
Left behind as a memory for us.
Stattus—Silvce. Bk. II. 1. 55.
In vain does Memory renew
The hours once tinged in transport's dye:
The sad reverse soon starts to view
And turns the past to agony.
Mrs. Dugald Stewart—The Tear I Shed.
I shall remember while the light lives yet
And in the night time I shall not forget.
Swinburne—Erotion.
Facetiarum apud praepotentes in longum memoria est.
The powerful hold in deep remembrance an
ill-timed pleasantry.
Tacitus—Annates. V. 2.
The sweet remembrance of the just
Shall flourish when he sleeps in dust.
Tate and Brady—Paraphrase of Psalm CXI I.
St. 6.
A land of promise, a land of memory,
A land of promise flowing with the milk
And honey of delicious memories!
Faciam, hujus loci, dieique, meique semper
memineris.
I will make you always remember this place,
this day, and me.
Terence—Eunuehus. V. 7. 31.
Memory, in widow's weeds, with naked feet
stands on a tombstone.
Aubrey De Vere—Widowhood.
Forsan et hsec ohm meminisse juvabit.
Perhaps the remembrance of these things
will prove a source of future pleasure.
Vergil—Mneki. I. 203.
Quique sui memores alios fecere merendo.
These who have ensured their remembrance
by their deserts.
Vergil—Æneid. VI. 664.
As the dew to the blossom, the bud to the bee,
As the scent to the rose, are those memories to
me.
Amelia B. Welby—Pulpit Eloquence.
Out of the cradle endlessly rocking,
Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical
shuttle,
A reminiscence sing.
Walt Whitman—Sea-Drift.
Ah! memories of sweet summer eves,
Of moonlit wave and willowy way,
Of stars and flowers, and dewy leaves,
And smiles and tones more dear than they!
Whittier—Memories. St. 4.
is And when the stream
Which overflowed the soul was passed away,
A consciousness remained that it had left,
Deposited upon the silent shore
Of memory, images and precious thoughts,
That shall not die, and cannot be destroyed.
Wordsworth—Excursion. Bk. VII.
The vapours linger round the Heights,
They melt, and soon must vanish;
One hour is theirs, nor more is mine,—
Sad thought, which I would banish,
But that I know, where'er I go,
Thy genuine image, Yarrow!
Will dwell with me,—to heighten joy,
And cheer my mind in sorrow.
Wordsworth—Yarrow Visited.
MERCANTILE (See Business)
MERCY
When all thy mercies, O my God,
My rising soul surveys,
Transported with the view I'm lost,
In wonder, love and praise.
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Have mercy upon us miserable sinners.
Book of Common Prayer. Litany.
Mercy to him that shows it, is the rule.
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And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.
Gray—Elegy in a Country Churchyard. St. 17.
A sentinel angel sitting high in glory
Heard this shrill wail ring out from Purgatory:
'Have mercy, mighty angel, hear my story!"
John Hay—A Woman's Lave.
