Fear not the anger of the wise to raise; Those best can bear reproof who merit praise.
1482 POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 23.
Reproof on her lips, but a smile in her eye.
1483 LOVER: _Rory O'More._
=Reputation.=
The purest treasure mortal times afford, Is spotless reputation; that away, Men are but gilded loam, or painted clay.
1484 SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
At every word a reputation dies.
1485 POPE: _R. of the Lock,_ Canto iii., Line 16.
=Resignation.=
But Heaven hath a hand in these events; To whose high will we bound our calm contents.
1486 SHAKS.: _Richard II._ Act v., Sc. 2.
While Resignation gently slopes away, And all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.
1487 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 110.
=Resolution.=
The native hue of resolution Is sicklied o'er with the pale cast of thought; And enterprises of great pith and moment, With this regard, their currents turn awry, And lose the name of action.
1488 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.
=Respect.=
You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it, that do buy it with much care.
1489 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 1.
=Rest.=
Who with a body filled and vacant mind Gets him to rest, crammed with distressful bread.
1490 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.
Rest is sweet after strife.
1491 OWEN MEREDITH: _Lucile,_ Pt. i., Canto vi., St. 25.
For too much rest itself becomes a pain.
1492 POPE: _Odyssey,_ Bk. xv., Line 429.
=Results.=
Who soweth good seed shall surely reap; The year grows rich as it groweth old; And life's latest sands are its sands of gold.
1493 JULIA C.R. DORR: _To the Bouquet Club._
=Retirement.=
Retiring from the popular noise, I seek This unfrequented place to find some ease.
1494 MILTON: _Samson Agonistes,_ Line 16.
O blest retirement, friend to life's decline, Retreats from care that never must be mine, How happy he who crowns, in shades like these, A youth of labor, with an age of ease; Who quits a world where strong temptations try, And, since 't is hard to combat, learns to fly.
1495 GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 97.
=Retreat.=
In all the trade of war, no feat Is nobler than a brave retreat; For those that run away, and fly, Take place at least of the enemy.
1496 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 607.
=Revelry.=
Midnight shout and revelry, Tipsy dance and jollity.
1497 MILTON: _Comus,_ Line 103.
There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men.
1498 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 21.
=Revenge.=
And Caesar's spirit, ranging for revenge, With Ate by his side, come hot from hell, Shall in these confines, with a monarch's voice, Cry "Havock," and let slip the dogs of war.
1499 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.
Revenge, at first though sweet, Bitter ere long, back on itself recoils.
1500 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ix., Line 171.
Vengeance to God alone belongs; But, when I think of all my wrongs, My blood is liquid flame.
1501 SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto vi., St. 7.
=Reverence.=
Let the air strike our tune, Whilst we show reverence to yond peeping moon.
1502 MIDDLETON: _The Witch,_ Act v., Sc. 2.
=Revolution.=
There is great talk of revolution, And a great chance of despotism, German soldiers, camps, confusion, Tumults, lotteries, rage, delusion, Gin, suicide, and Methodism.