Sir Scott
Sir Scott
daylight elbow ride safe says
Better ride safe in the dark, says the proverb, than in the daylight with a cut-throat at your elbow
brute envious exalted high lie loudest lowest shouts station turn whose worth zeal
And the brute crowd, whose envious zeal Huzzas each turn of fortune's wheel, And loudest shouts when lowest lie Exalted worth and station high
alert asserting constantly jealousy kept liable life pride resolute rights spent
Pride and jealousy there was in his eye, for his life had been spent in asserting rights which were constantly liable to invasion; and the prompt, fiery, and resolute disposition of the man, had been kept constantly upon the alert by the circumstances of his situation.
awakening death final last
Death - the last sleep? No, it is the final awakening
deceive oh practice tangled web
Oh what a tangled web we weave, When first we practice to deceive
drinking greatness vices
Of all the vices drinking is the most incompatible with greatness
begins either ended fighting freed men nature plain point quarrel stability tis wars
Tis plain that there is not in nature a point of stability to be found: everything either ascends or declines. When wars are ended abroad, sedition begins at home, and when men are freed from fighting for necessity, they quarrel through ambition.
drinking eating man starved till time
To be always intending to live a new life, but never find time to set about it - this is as if a man should put off eating and drinking from one day to another till he be starved and destroyed.
animals aware cats folk minds mysterious passing
Cats are mysterious kind of folk - there is more passing in their minds than we are aware of.
christmas heap merry whistle wind
Heap on more wood! the wind is chill; But let it whistle as it will, We'll keep our Christmas merry still.
death slow
Come he slow or come he fast. It is but death who comes at last.
active afford cannot due forward friends-or-friendship gratitude humble incumbent less life member move ought owe path powers rejoice save share steadily success whom
If you have no friends to share or rejoice in your success in life -- if you cannot look back to those whom you owe gratitude, or forward to those to whom you ought to afford protection, still it is no less incumbent on you to move steadily in the path of duty; for your active excretions are due not only to society; but in humble gratitude to the Being who made you a member of it, with powers to save yourself and others.
good work
A good play for nothing, you know, as work for nothing
And come he slow, or come he fast,