=Reformation.=

'Tis the talent of our English nation, Still to be plotting some new Reformation.

1460 DRYDEN: _Sophonisba,_ Prologue.

=Regret.=

O last regret, regret can die!

1461 TENNYSON: _In Memoriam,_ lxxviii., St. 5.

Deep as first love, and wild with all regret.

Oh death in life, the days that are no more!

1462 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 36.

=Religion.=

In Religion What damned error, but some sober brow Will bless it, and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament.

1463 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

Religion is a spring, That from some secret, golden mine Derives her birth, and thence doth bring Cordials in every drop, and wine.

1464 HENRY VAUGHAN: _Religion._

Religion crowns the statesman and the man, Sole source of public and of private peace.

1465 YOUNG: _Public Situation of the Kingdom,_ Line 500.

Pity Religion has so seldom found A skilful guide into poetic ground!

1466 COWPER: _Table Talk,_ Line 17.

Religion stands on tiptoe in our land, Ready to pass to the American strand.

1467 HERBERT: _The Church Militant._

=Remedies.=

Our remedies oft in ourselves do lie, Which we ascribe to Heaven; the fated sky Gives us free scope; only, doth backward pull Our slow designs, when we ourselves are dull.

1468 SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Remembrance.=

The setting sun, and music at the close, As the last taste of sweets, is sweetest last, Writ in remembrance more than things long past.

1469 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Praising what is lost, Makes the remembrance dear.

1470 SHAKS.: _All 's Well,_ Act v., Sc. 3.

I've been so long remembered, I'm forgot.

1471 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night iv., Line 57.

I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high: I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky; It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heaven Than when I was a boy.

1472 HOOD: _I Remember, I Remember._

=Remorse.=

Remorse is as the heart in which it grows, If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree that, pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison.

1473 COLERIDGE: _Remorse,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Renown.=

Short is my date, but deathless my renown.

1474 POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. ix., Line 535.

=Repartee.=

A man renown'd for repartee Will seldom scruple to make free With friendship's finest feeling, Will thrust a dagger at your breast, And say he wounded you in jest, By way of balm for healing.

1475 COWPER: _Friendship,_ Line 16.

=Repentance.=

Who by repentance is not satisfied Is nor of heaven nor earth; for these are pleased; By penitence the Eternal's wrath's appeased.

1476 SHAKS.: _Two Gent. of V.,_ Act v., Sc. 4.

Illusion is brief, but Repentance is long!

1477 SCHILLER: _Lay of the Bell,_ St. 4.

Repentance is the weight Of indigested meals eat yesterday.

1478 GEORGE ELIOT: _Spanish Gypsy,_ Bk. ii.

Amid the roses fierce Repentance rears Her snaky crest.

1479 THOMSON: _Seasons, Spring,_ Line 996.

=Repose.=

The best of men have ever loved repose: They hate to mingle in the filthy fray, Where the soul sours, and gradual rancor grows, Imbitter'd more from peevish day to day.

1480 THOMSON: _Castle of Indolence,_ Canto i., St. 17.

Her suffering ended with the day, Yet lived she at its close, And breathed the long, long night away, In statue-like repose.

1481 JAMES ALDRICH: _A Death-Bed._

=Reproof.=