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, Where order in variety we see, And where, though all things differ, all agree. Heaven to mankind impartial we confess, But mutual wants this happiness increase, Extremes in nature equal ends produce. Extremes in nature equal good produce, POPE.-Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 161. Eye nature's walks, shoot folly as it flies, POPE.-Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 13. Read nature; nature is a friend to truth. Who can paint Like nature? can imagination boast, Amid its gay creation, hues like hers? Or can it mix them with that matchless skill, 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, CHURCHILL.-Apology. Not without art, but yet to nature true. CHURCHILL.-The Rosciad, Line 699.. Breathing nature lives in every line: Chaste and subdued. 261 COLLINS.-Epi. to Sir Thos. Hanmer, Line 112. E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries: GRAY.-Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 23. All nature is but art, unknown to thee; 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, 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. SHAKSPERE.-Love's Labour's Lost, Act I. 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. 262 NECESSITY-NETTLE. NECESSITY.-Are you content to be our general? And live, as we do, in this wilderness? SHAKSPERE.-Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act. IV. 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, 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, And it soft as silk remains. 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. NEVER-NEW. NEVER.-Never wedding, ever wooing, CAMPBELL. And still be doing, never done. 263 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, BURNS.-Ae fond Kiss, Verse 2. Ne'er to meet, or ne'er to part, is peace. NEW.-There is no new thing under the sun. Nothing is new; we walk where others went: HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorism 213. Be not the first by whom the new are tried, POPE.-On Criticism, Line 335. New subjects are not easily explain'd, And you had better choose a well-known theme ROSCOMMON.-Horace's Art of Poetry. 264 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. NEWS.-The first bringer of unwelcome news SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Evil news rides post, while good news bates. MILTON.-Samson Agonistes. Here comes Monsieur Le Beau; with his mouth full of news. News, the manna of a day. GREEN. The Spleen, Line 169. NEWSMAN.-He comes, the herald of a noisy world, COWPER.-The Task, Book IV. Line 5. He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch, 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 THOMSON. To the Memory of Sir Isaac. He also fix'd our wand'ring queen of night, Or, waxing broad, with her pale shadowy light |