orn;
Object of my implacable disgust.
What! Will a man play tricks, will he indulge
A silly fond conceit of his fair form
And just proportion, fashionable mien,
And pretty face, in presence of his God?
Or will he seek to dazzle me with tropes,
As with the diamond on his lily hand,
And play his brilliant parts before my eyes
When I am hungry for the bread of life?
He mocks his Maker, prostitutes and shames
His noble office, and, instead of truth,
Displaying his own beauty, starves his flock.

--_Cowper._

35

_The Cure of Affectation_--Is to follow nature. If every one would do
this, affectation would be almost unknown.

--_J. Beaumont._

36

Affectation of any kind, is lighting up a candle to our defects.

--_Locke._

37

Affectation is the vain and ridiculous attempt of poverty to appear
rich.

--_Lavater._

38

How sad to notice in one--changed affections,
A cold averted eye.

--_Observer._

39

AFFLICTION.

Be still, sad heart, and cease repining,
Behind the clouds the sun is shining;
Thy fate is the common fate of all;
Into each life some rain must fall--,
Some days must be dark and dreary.

--_Longfellow._

40

_Affliction_--For every sort of suffering there is sleep provided by a
gracious Providence, save that of sin.

--_J. Wilson._

41

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress;
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss!

--_Burns._

42

_Affronts_--Young men soon give, and soon forget affronts; old age is
slow in both.

--_Addison._

43

Old age is a joy, when youth has been well spent.

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THE APPROACH OF AGE.

Six years had passed, and forty ere the six,
When time began to play his usual tricks;
The locks once comely in a virgin's sight,
Locks of pure brown, displayed the encroaching white;
The blood, once fervid, now to cool began,
And Time's strong pressure to subdue the man.