Such dominions fill an Englishman with envious wonder; but when he surveys the naked mountain, and treads the quaking moor; and wanders over the wild regions of gloomy barrenness, his wonder may continue, but his envy ceases.

Even lust and envy sleep!

The surly Wolf with secret envy burst, Yet could not howl; (the Hind had seen him first:)

Let Father Flecknoe fire thy mind with praise, And uncle Ogleby thy envy raise.

Novels used to be pronounced novels; envy envy; a cloak was a clock, to the surprise of an English lady, to whom the maid said, on her leaving the house, "Mem, winna ye tak the clock wi' ye?" The names of children's diseases were a remarkable item in the catalogue of Scottish words:

For prosperity must sustain an envy equalling itself: but concerning the man of low place the rumour is obscure.

Be sure thou hast not, murderous bloodsucker, To jealous envy executioner.

But, if empower'd to strike th' immortal lyre, The ardent vot'ry glows with genuine fire, 'Tis yours, while care recoils, and envy flies, Subdued by his resistless energies, 'Tis yours to bid Piërian fountains flow, And toast his name in Wit's seraglio; To bind his brows with amaranthine bays, And bless, with beef and beer, his mundane days!

Like you, they take that dreadful form, Bask in the sun, and fly the storm; With malice hiss, with envy gloat, And for convenience change their coat; 30 With new-got lustre rear their head, Though on a dunghill born and bred.'

My admiration only I express'd, (No spark of envy harbours in my breast), That when confusion o'er the country reigns, To you alone this happy state remains.

His brethren had great envy hereat.

The chasm closesand the dangers pass: With buried Curtius following envy lies, Nor dare she lift her sickly head Above his giant grave.

The cut-throat sword and clamorous gown shall jar, In sharing their ill-gotten spoils of war: Chiefs shall be grudged the part which they pretend; Lords envy lords, and friends with every friend About their impious merit shall contend.

As there are to be found in the service of envy men of every diversity of temper and degree of understanding, calumny is diffused by all arts and methods of propagation.

See envy oft transformed in wan disguise, And mirth sits gay and smiling in the eyes, Oft our complexions do the soul declare, And tell what passions in the features are.

Envy enjoyeth poetry's unrest; In vain I plead; well is to me a fault, And these my words seem the sleight[50] web of art, And not to have the taste of sounder truth.

2 But who can hope his line should long Last in a daily changing tongue? While they are new, envy prevails; And as that dies, our language fails.

In vain malicious tongues assail; Let envy snarl, let slander rail, From virtue's shield (secure from wound) Their blunted, venomed shafts rebound.

Such freedoms in your works are shown They can't enjoy what's not their own; All dunces too, in church and state, In frothy nonsense show their hate; With all the petty scribbling crew, (And those pert sots are not a few,) 20 'Gainst you and Pope their envy spurt, The booksellers alone are hurt.

There lurks no treason, there no envy swells, There grow no damned grudges; there no storms, No noise, but silence and eternal sleep.

All envy vanishes, and instead of feeling it, we are rejoiced when we see one of our tormented fellow-creatures experience any pleasure or relief.

Your peace I don't with looks of envy view,

At last she died, when he was twenty-seven, and left himto use his own expression"to ruminate on death, and envy whomsoever dies."

For even in the lowest kinds of work, envy balks even the beginnings of a reputation, and never ceases to cleave to it up to the last.

Phr. base envy withers at another's joy