A VIRTUOUS COURT-A WOMAN'S NAY. "A virtuous court, a world to virtue draws." BEN JONSON. Cynthia's Revels (Cynthia), Act V., Sc. III. "A virtuous woman is a crown to her husband." PROVERBS. Ch. XII., ver. 4. 15 "A votary of the desk-a notched and cropt scrivener-one that sucks his substance, as certain sick people are said to do, through a quill." "A well-written life is almost as rare as a well-spent one." CARLYLE. Essay on Richter. A whip for the horse, a bridle for the ass, PROVERBS. Ch. XIX., ver. 22. "A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged mercury." JOANNA BAILLIE. De Montfort (Rezenvelt), Act III., Sc. II. "A wise man is never less alone than when he is alone." SWIFT. Essay on the Faculties of the Mind. "A wise man never Attempts impossibilities." MASSINGER. The Renegado (Francisco), Act I., Sc. I. "A wise son maketh a glad father: But a foolish man despiseth his mother." PROVERBS. Ch. XV., ver. 20. "A wit is a kind of urchin, that every man will set his dog at, but won't touch himself, for fear of pricking his fingers." T. HOLCROFT. Duplicity (Clara), Act II., Sc. II. "A woful hostess brooks not merry guests." SHAKESPEARE. Rape of Lucrece, St. 161. A woman, a spaniel, and a walnut-tree, CHAS. TAYLOR. A woman... Her lot is made for her by the love she accepts." GEORGE ELIOT. Felix Holt, Ch. XLIII. "A woman like a butt, and harsh as crabs." TENNYSON. Walking to the Mail. "A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day." O. W. HOLMES. The Poet at the Breakfast Table, IV. "A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her weddingADDISON. Spectator, No. 475. clothes." "(Have ye not heard it said full oft), A woman's nay doth stand for nought?" SHAKESPEARE. The Passionate Pilgrim, XIV. 16 A WORD IN YOUR EAR-ACTION IS TRANSITORY. "A word in your ear." VANBURGH AND CIBBER. The Provok'd Husband (Sir Francis), "A word to the wise is enough." B. FRANKLIN. Poor Richard's Almanac. (Religion-freedom-vengeance-what you will,) A word's enough to raise mankind to kill." BYRON. Lara, Can. II., VIII. "A wretch who takes his lusts to heaven, And makes a pander of his God." T. MOORE. Lalla Rookh, VI. "A young man married, is a man that's marred." SHAKESPEARE. All's Well that Ends Well (Parolles), "A young man will be wiser by-and-by; TENNYSON. "A youth of frolics, an old age of cards." The Coming of Arthur. POPE. Moral Essays, Ep. II., line 244. "(Had swoln) 'bove any Greek or Roman name." DRYDEN. On the Death of Lord Hastings, line 76. "Above all Greek, above all Roman fame." POPE. Imitation of Horace, Bk. II., Ep. I., line 26. "On this foundation would I build my fame, And emulate the Greek and Roman name. ROWE. Jane Shore (Hastings), Act III., Sc. I. "Accidents will occur in the best regulated families." C. DICKENS. David Copperfield (Mr. Micawber), Ch. XXVII. "Accursed is the march of that glory Which treads o'er the hearts of the free." T. MOORE. Irish Melodies, Forget not the Fiel "Action is transitory—a step, a blow The motion of a muscle-this way or that'Tis done; and in the after-vacancy We wonder at ourselves like men betrayed." WORDSWORTH. The White Doe of Rylstone (Dedication). ACTIONS ARE OUR EPOCHS-AH, CHRIST. "Actions are our epochs." BYRON. Manfred (Manfred), Act II., Sc. I. "Adam, the goodliest man of men since born His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve." MILTON. Paradise Lost, Bk. IV., line 323. "Adepts in the speaking trade Keep a cough by them ready made." CHURCHILL. The Ghost, Bk. II., line 545 "Adieu! she cries, and wav'd her lily hand." 64 66 GAY. William's Farewell to Black-Eyed Susan. (She came) adorned hither like sweet May." SHAKESPEARE. Richard II. (King), Act V., Sc. I. Advantage is a better soldier than rashness." SHAKESPEARE. Henry V. (Mountjoy), Act III., Sc. V. Adversity's sweet milk, philosophy.' SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence), Act III., Sc. III. 17 "Advice is seldom welcome; and those who want it the most, always like it the least." LORD CHESTterfield. Letters to his Son, 29th Jan., 1748. "Affronts are innocent, where men are worthless." ED. YOUNG. The Revenge (Zanga), Act I., Sc. I. "After death, the doctor." 66 Against ill chances men are ever merry; But heaviness foreruns the good event." SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Archbishop), Act IV., Sc. II. SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra (Enobarbus), Act II., "Ah, Beauty! Syren, fair enchanting Good, Still Harmony, whose Diapason lies Within a Brow; the Key which Passions move S. DANIEL. The Complaint of Rosamund, St. 19. "Ah, Christ, that it were possible The souls we loved, that they might tell us TENNYSON. Maud, Part IV., III. 18 AH FOR A MAN-ALL ARE BUT PARTS. "Ah for a man to arise in me, That the man I am may cease to be!" TENNYSON. Maud, Part X., 6. "Ah little rat that borest in the dyke TENNYSON. Merlin and Vivien. "Ah, the Past, the pearl-gift thrown To hogs, time's opportunity we made So light of, only recognised when flown!" 66 R. BROWNING. Jocoseria (Jochanan Hakkadosh). Ah, wretched man this wretched world pursuing, Which still grows worse by age, and older by renewing!" PHINEAS FLETCHER. The Purple Island, Can. I., St. 1. "Air, air, fresh life-blood, thin and searching air, The clear, dear breath of God that loveth us.” "Alas for the rarity Of Christian charity R. BROWNING, Pauline. HOOD. The Bridge of Sighs. "Alas! how hard to part with those we love! Werter 'tis sharper than the stings of death." F. REYNOLds. Werter (Charlotte), Act I., Sc. II. Alas! how light a cause may move Dissension between hearts that love!" T. MOORE. Lalla Rookh, IX. "Alas! poor Yorick !-I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy." SHAKESPEARE. "Alas! regardless of their doom, The little victims play! No sense have they of ills to come, Nor care beyond to-day." Hamlet (Hamlet), Act V., Sc. I. GRAY. Ode on the distant prospect of Eton College. "Alas! we make A ladder of our thoughts, where angels step, But sleep ourselves at the foot: our high resolves 66 L. E. L. A History of the Lyre. (Where) al is fishe, that cometh to the net." ALL ARE PLEAS'D-ALL MEN ARE. 19 "All are pleas'd, by partial passion led, PARNELL. Elysium, line 103. "All argument will vanish before one touch of nature." "All-cheering plenty, with her flowing horn, "All covet life, yet call it pain, BURNS. The Brigs of Ayr. PRIOR. Written in Mezeray's History of France. "(Or shear swine), all cry, and no wool." BUTLER. Hudibras, Pt. I., Can. I., line 852. "But all the cry produces little wool." KING. The Art of Cookery, line 196. "All delights are vain; but that most vain, Which, with pain purchased, doth inherit pain." SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour Lost (Biron), Act I., Sc. I. "All doubt is cowardice -all trust is brave." BULWER LYTTON. King Arthur, Book XII., XXVIII. "(Whether with reason or with instinct blest, Know) all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best." POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. III., line 80. "(And) all for love, and nothing for reward." SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. II., Can. VIII., St. 2. “All flesh is grass, and the godliness thereof as the flower of the field." ISAIAH. Ch. XL., ver. 6. "All great actions the wish'd course do run, That are, with their allowance, well begun." MASSINGER. The Bondman (Timoleon), Act I., Sc. I. "All hoods make not monks." SHAKESPEARE. Henry VIII. (Queen Katharine), Act III., "All human things are subject to decay, Sc. I. DRYDEN. Mac Flecknoe, line 1. "All is not false which seems at first a lie." SOUTHEY. St. Gualberto, line 28. "All men are guests where Hope doth hold the feast." GASCOIGNE. The Fruites of War, line 88. "All men are liable to error, and most men are, in many points, by passion or interest, under temptation to it." LOCKE. Essay on the Human Understanding, Book IV., "All men are Philosophers, to their inches." Chap. XX., § 17. BEN JONSON. The Magnetic Lady (Practice), Act I., Sc. I. |