1871 SHAKS.: _Titus And.,_ Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter.

1872 HERRICK: _Noble Numbers, Tears._

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth.

1873 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart, A maid to see her sparrow part, A stripling for a woman's heart: But woe awaits a country, when She sees the tears of bearded men.

1874 SCOTT: _Marmion,_ Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

1875 WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality._

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more.

1876 TENNYSON: _The Princess,_ Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.

1877 CAMPBELL: _Pl. of Hope,_ Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray.

1878 FRANCIS M. FINCH: _The Blue and the Gray._

=Temper.=

Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone.

1879 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

=Temperance.=

Temp'rate in every place,--abroad, at home.

Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either--he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares.

1880 CRABBE: _The Borough,_ Letter xvii., Line 198.

=Tempests.=

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day.

1881 SHAKS.: _1 Henry IV.,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine, To swell above the measure of his guise, As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise.

1882 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours.

1883 THOMSON: _Seasons, Summer,_ Line 799.

The sky Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show In forked flashes a commanding tempest.

1884 BYRON: _Sardanapalus,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Temptation.=

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence.

1885 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wicked vary.

1886 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead.

1887 LONGFELLOW: _Resignation_

=Tenderness.=

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth.

1888 BAYARD TAYLOR: _Improvisations,_ Pt. v.

=Tents.=

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away.

1889 LONGFELLOW: _The Day is Done._

=Terror.=

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats.

1890 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Test.=

Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word.

1891 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Text.=

And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die.

1892 GRAY: _Elegy,_ St. 21.

=Thankfulness.=

The poorest service is repaid with thanks.

1893 SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed.