Of all the paths that lead to a woman's love
Pity's the straightest.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Knight of Malta.
| place = Act I. Sc. 1. L. 73.
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| text = <poem>Pity, some say, is the parent of future love.
| author = Beaumont and Fletcher
| work = Spanish Curate.
Act V. Sc. 1.
Pity speaks to grief
More sweetly than a band of instruments.
Barry Cornwall—Florentine Party.
For pity melts the mind to love.
Softly sweet, in Lydian measures,
Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures.
War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.
Dryden—Alexander's Feast. L. 96.
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| text = <poem>More helpful than all wisdom is one draught
of simple human pity that will not forsake us.
George Eliot—Mill on the Floss. Bk. VII.
Ch.I.
Taught by that Power that pities me,
I learn to pity them.
La plaincte et la commiseration sont meslees a
quelque estimation de la chose qu'on plaind.
Pity and commiseration are mixed with some
regard for the thing which one pities.
Montaigne—Essays. Bk. I. Ch. L.
At length some pity warm'd the master's breast
('Twas then, his threshold first received a guest),
Slow creaking turns the door with jealous care,
And half he welcomes in the shivering pair.
Parnell—The Hermit. L. 97.
fl God, show compassion on the wicked.
'The virtuous have already been blessed by Thee
in being virtuous.
Prayer of a Persian Dervish.
My pity hath been balm to heal their wounds,
My mildness hath allayM their swelling griefs.
Henry VI. Pt. III. Act IV. Sc. 8. L. 41.
My friend, I spy some pity in thy looks;
O, if thine eye be not a flatterer,
Come thou on my side, and entreat for me,
As you would beg, were you in my distress:
A begging prince what beggar pities not?
Richard III. Act I. Sc. 4. L. 270.
Tear-falling pity dwells not in his eye.
Richard III. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 66.
I shall despair. There is no creature loves me;
And if I die, no soul shall pity me:
Nay. wherefore should they, since that I myself
Find in myself no pity to mvself?
Richard III. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 200.
Is there no pity sitting in the clouds,
That sees into the bottom of my grief?
But, I perceive,
Men must learn now with pity to dispense-,
For policy sits above conscience.
Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 92.
Pity is the virtue of the law,
And none but tyrants use it cruelly.
Timon of Athens. Act III. Sc. 5. L. 8.
Soft pity never leaves the gentle breast
Where love has been received a welcome guest.
R. B. Sheridan—The Duenna. Act II.
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| text = <poem>Pity's akin to love; and every thought
Of that soft kind is welcome to my soul.
Thos. Southerne—Oroonoho. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 64.
PLAGIARISM
They lard their lean books with the fat of
others' works.
| author = Burton
| work = Anatomy of Melancholy.
| place = Democritus
to the Reader.
<poem>We can say nothing but what hath been said,
- * * Our poets steal from Homer * * *
Our storydressers do as much; he that comes last is commonly best.
<poem>Who, to patch up his fame—or fill his purse—
Still pilfers wretched plans, and makes them worse; Like gypsies, lest the stolen brat be known, Defacing first, then claiming for his own. Churchill—The Apology. L. 232.
<poem>Because they commonly make use of treasure
found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other. Davenant—Gondibert. Preface.
The Plagiarism of orators is the art, or an ingenious and easy mode, which some adroitly employ to change, or disguise, all sorts of speeches of their own composition, or that of other authors, for their pleasure, or their utility; in such a manner that it becomes impossible even for the author himself to recognise his own work, his own genius, and his own style, so skilfully shall the whole be disguised.
