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NATURE.-And God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit-tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself upon the earth, and it was so. GENESIS, Chap. I. Verse 11.

For whatsoever she produces (I am not speaking only of animals, but even of those things which have sprung from the earth in such a manner as to rest on their own roots) she designed it to be perfect in its respective kind.

YONGE'S Cicero.-Tusculan Disp. Book V. Div. 13.

Wise nature by variety does please,

Clothes differing passions in a differing dress.

DRYDEN.-Translation of Boileau's Poetry,
Canto III. Tragedy.

Where order in variety we see,

And where, though all things differ, all agree.
POPE.-Windsor Forest, Line 15.

Heaven to mankind impartial we confess,
If all are equal in their happiness;

But mutual wants this happiness increase,
All nature's difference keeps all nature's peace.
POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 53.

Extremes in nature equal ends produce.
POPE.-Epi. II. Line 205.

Extremes in nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use.

POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 161.

Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 13.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.
YOUNG.-Night IV. Line 702.

Who can paint

Like nature? can imagination boast,

Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?

Or can it mix them with that matchless skill,
And lose them in each other, as appears

In every bud that blows?

THOMSON'S Seasons.-Spring.

Nature hath fram'd strange fellows in her time.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 1.

NATURE-NECESSITY.

NATURE.-Nature, thro' all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.

CHURCHILL.-Apology.

Not without art, but yet to nature true.

CHURCHILL.-The Rosciad, Line 699..

Breathing nature lives in every line:

Chaste and subdued.

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COLLINS.-Epi. to Sir Thos. Hanmer, Line 112.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries:
E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

GRAY.-Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 23.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good.

POPE.-On Man, Epi. I. Line 289.

I have thought some of nature's journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.

NECESSITY.-Necessity-thou best of peacemakers,
As well as surest prompter of invention.

Scort.-Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XXVI.

Necessity invented stools,

Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,

And luxury the accomplish'd sofa last.

COWPER.-The Task, Book I. Line 86.

1. She must lie here on mere necessity.
2. Necessity will make us all forsworn.

SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act I.
Scene 1.

Necessity's sharp pinch.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act II. Scene 4.

I'll rather dwell in my necessity.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3.

Orpheus, who found no remedy,

Made virtue of necessity.

KING.-Orpheus and Eurydice, Line 193.

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NECESSITY-NETTLE.

NECESSITY.-Are you content to be our general?
To make a virtue of necessity,

And live, as we do, in this wilderness?

SHAKSPERE.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act. IV.
Scene 1.

NECK.-A lover forsaken

A new love may get;

But a neck that's once broken

Can never be set.

WALSH.-The Despairing Lover.

NEEDLE.-Nor peace nor ease the heart can know,

Which, like the needle true,

Turns at the touch of joy or woe,

But, turning, trembles too.

MRS. GREVILLE.-A Prayer for Indifference,
Verses 5, 6.

True as the needle to the pole,

Or as the dial to the sun.

BARTON BOOTH.-Song.

True as the dial to the sun,

Although it be not shin'd upon.

BUTLER.-Hudibras, Canto II. Part III. Line 175. NEITHER.-Neither the praise nor the blame is our own. COWPER. From a Letter to Mr. Newton, Verse 6.

Neither here nor there.

SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act IV. Scene 3.

But with some folks, 'tis labour lost to strive,
A reasoning mule will neither lead nor drive.
MALLET.-Epilogue to "The Brothers."
NETTLE.-Tender-handed stroke a nettle,
And it stings you for your pains;
Grasp it like a man of mettle,

And it soft as silk remains.
"Tis the same with common natures:
Use 'em kindly, they rebel;

But be rough as nutmeg-graters,

And the rogues obey you well.

AARON HILL.-(Elegant Extracts.)

I have touch'd a nettle, and stung myself.

TUKE.-Adventures of Five Hours, Act I.
Scene 1.

NEVER-NEW.

NEVER.-Never wedding, ever wooing,
Still a love-lorn heart pursuing,
Read you not the wrong you're doing,
In my cheek's pale hue?
All my life with sorrow strewing,
Wed, or cease to woo.

CAMPBELL.

And still be doing, never done.

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BUTLER.-Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 204.

Never ending, still beginning.

DRYDEN.-Alexander's Feast, Verse 5.

Always filling, never full.

COWPER.-To Rev. W. Bull, Line 73.

Ever reading, never to be read!

POPE.-The Dunciad, Book III. Line 194.

Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

TIMOTHY.-Epi. II. Chap. III. Verse 7.

Still ending, and beginning still.

COWPER.-The Task, Book III. Line 627.

NEVER MET.-Never met, or never parted,
We had ne'er been broken-hearted.

BURNS.-Ae fond Kiss, Verse 2.

Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace.
YOUNG.-Night V. Line 1058.

NEW.-There is no new thing under the sun.
ECCLESIASTES.-Chap. I. Verse 9.

Nothing is new; we walk where others went:
There's no vice now but has its precedent.

HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorism 213.

Be not the first by whom the new are tried,
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.

POPE.-On Criticism, Line 335.

New subjects are not easily explain'd,

And you had better choose a well-known theme
Than trust to an invention of your own.

ROSCOMMON.-Horace's Art of Poetry.

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NEW YEAR'S DAY-NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.

NEW YEAR'S DAY.-This is a day, in days of yore,

Our fathers never saw before:

This is a day, 'tis one to ten,

Our sons will never see again.

FIELDING.-The Historical Register for 1736.
Act I. Scene 1.

NEWS.-The first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act I.
Scene 1.

Evil news rides post, while good news bates.

MILTON.-Samson Agonistes.

Here comes Monsieur Le Beau; with his mouth full of news.
SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act I. Scene 2.

News, the manna of a day.

GREEN. The Spleen, Line 169.

NEWSMAN.-He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter'd boots, strapp'd waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.

COWPER.-The Task, Book IV. Line 5.

He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief
Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.

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IBID. The Task, Book IV. Line 12. NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.—Nature and nature's laws lay hid in night,

God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

POPE.-Epitaph for Sir Isaac.

Have ye not listen'd while he bound the suns
And planets to their spheres? th' unequal task
Of human-kind till then.

THOMSON. To the Memory of Sir Isaac.

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He also fix'd our wand'ring queen of night,
Whether she wanes into a scanty orb,

Or, waxing broad, with her pale shadowy light
In a soft deluge overflows the sky.

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