NAPLES
Naples sitteth by the sea, keystone of an arch of azure.
NARCISSUS
If thou hast a loaf of bread, sell half and buy
the flowers of the narcissus; for bread nourisheth
the body, but the flowers of the narcissus the
soul.
Oswald Crawfurd—Round the Calendar in
Portugal. P. 114. Quoting it from Mohammed.
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NATURE
If there's a power above us, (and that there is
all nature cries aloud
Through all her works) he must delight in virtue.
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No one finds fault with defects which are the
result of -nature.
Aristotle—Ethics. III. 5.
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| text = Nature's great law, and law of all men's minds?—
To its own impulse every creature stirs;
Live by thy light, and earth will live by hers!
Matthew Arnold—Religious Isolation. St. 4.
Nature means Necessity.
Bailey—Festus. Dedication.
The course of Nature seems a course of Death,
And nothingness the whole substantial thing.
Bailey—Festus. Sc. Water and Wood.
At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,
And nought but the nightingale's song in the
grove.
Beathe—The Hermit.
Nature too unkind;
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!
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III. Sc. 1.
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Rich with the spoils of nature.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Pt. XIII.
There are no grotesques in nature; not anything framed to fill up empty cantons, and unnecessary spaces.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Pt.
XV.
Now nature is not at variance with art, nor
art with nature, they being both servants of
his providence: art is the perfection of nature;
were the world now as it was the sixth day,
there were yet a chaos; nature hath made one
world, and art another. In brief, all things
are artificial; for nature is the art of God.
Sir Thomas Browne—Religio Medici. Pt.
. XVI.
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| text = <poem>I trust in Nature for the stable laws
Of beauty and utility. Spring shall plant
And Autumn garner to the end of time.
I trust in God—the right shall be the right
And other than the wrong, while he endures;
I trust in my own soul, that can perceive
The outward and the inward, Nature's good
And God's.
Robert Browning—A Soul's Tragedy. Act
I.
Go forth under the open sky, and list
To Nature's teachings.
Bryant—Thanatopsis.
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| text = To him who in the love of Nature holds
Communion with her visible forms, she speaks
A various language.
Bryant?—Thanatopsis.
See one promontory (said Socrates of old)
one mountain, one sea, one river, and see all.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Pt. I.
Sec. 2. Memb. 4. Subsec. 7.
I am a part of all you see
In Nature : part of all you feel:
I am the impact of the bee
Upon the blossom; in the tree
I am the sap—that shall reveal
The leaf, the bloom—that flows and flutes
Up from the darkness through its roots.
Madison Cawetn—Penetralia.
Nature vicarye of the Almighty Lord.
Chaucer—Parlement ofFoules. L. 379.
Not without art, but yet to Nature true.
Churchill—The Rosciad. L. 699.
Ab interitu naturam abhorrere.
Nature abhors annihilation.
Cicero—DeFinibus. V. 11. 3.
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| text = <poem>Meliora sunt ea qua natura quam ilia quae
arte perfecta stmt.
Things perfected by nature are better than
those finished by art.
Cicero—De Natura Deorum. II. 34.
All argument will vanish before one touch of
nature.
George Colman the Younger—Poor Gentleman. Act V. 1.
Nature, exerting an unwearied power,
Forms, opens, and gives scent to every flower;
Spreads the fresh verdure of the field, and leads
The dancing Naiads through the dewy meads.
| author = Cowper
| work = Table Talk. L. 690.
Nor rural sights alone, but rural sounds,
Exhilarate the spirit, and restore
The tone of languid Nature.
