Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
2000
POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 217.
=Victory.=
Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac’d with wreaths of victory. 2001 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 3.
“But what good came of it at last?”
Quoth little Peterkin.
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said he;
“But ’twas a famous victory.”
2002
ROBERT SOUTHEY: Battle of Blenheim.
=Village.=
Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. 2003 GOLDSMITH: Des. Village.
Suburban villas, highway-side retreats,
That dread th’ encroachment of our growing streets,
Tight boxes neatly sash’d, and in a blaze
With all a July sun’s collected rays,
Delight the citizen, who gasping there,
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air.
2004
COWPER: Retirement, Line 481.
=Villain.=
Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes;
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.
2005
SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1.
=Vine.=
Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
2006
SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 7.
=Violet.=
A violet by a mossy stone
Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
Is shining in the sky.
2007
WORDSWORTH: She Dwelt among the Untrodden
Ways.
Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
2008
SHELLEY: Music, When Soft Voices Die.
What thought is folded in thy leaves!
What tender thought, what speechless pain!
I hold thy faded lips to mine,
Thou darling of the April rain!
2009
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: The Faded Violet.
=Virtue.=
Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do;
Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.
2010
SHAKS.: M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1.
Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
2011
SHAKS.: Henry III., Act iv., Sc. 2.
Assume a virtue if you have it not. 2012 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.
Virtue may be assail’d, but never hurt;
Surpris’d by unjust force, but not enthrall’d;
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm,
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
2013
MILTON: Comus, Line 589.
Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 2014 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 149.
=Vision.=
And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 2015 MILTON: Comus, Line 453.