A DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. ARDICATION. A. I give this heavy weight from off my head, Shaks.: Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1 I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best. 2 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. Who does the best his circumstance allows, 3 ABSENCE. Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 91. What! keep a week away! Seven days and nights? Eight score eight hours? and lovers' absent hours, More tedious than the dial eight score times? O weary reckoning! Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, 7 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 361. Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 47. No happier task these faded eyes pursue; To read and weep is all they now can do: 8 Of all affliction taught a lover yet Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 189. Pope: Autumn. Line 27. Where'er I roam, whatever realms to see, Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 7. O Love, if you were only here Though all the bitter winds should blow, 12 O last love! O first love! My love with the true heart, T. B. Aldrich: Latakia. To think I have come to this your home, 13 Jean Ingelow: Sailing Beyond Seas. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 14 Thomas Haynes Bayly: Isle of Beauty. Oh! couldst thou but know With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! 15 ABSTINENCE. Moore: Lalla Rookh. V. P. of Khorassan. Against diseases here the strongest fence 16 Herrick: Aph. Abstinence. ABUNDANCE. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 17 Milton: Par. Lost. Book i. Line 302. ABUSE see Curses. He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where; 18 Shaks.: Com. of Er. Act iv. Sc. 2. Thou thread, thou thimble, Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, As the unthought-on accident is guilty Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 21 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. 22 ACCOUNT. Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 4. No reckoning made, but sent to my account 23 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven? 24 ACHIEVEMENTS. Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine. 25 Beaumont and Fletcher: Loyal Subject. Act i. Sc. 5. ACTION -see Industry. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2. Shaks.: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. 26 Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 27 Of every noble action, the intent Is to give worth reward - vice punishment. 28 Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Act v. Sc. 5. 1 A beautiful vale about eighteen miles from Florence. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Those call it pleasure, and contentment these. 29 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 21. Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 30 Fletcher: On an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 35. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 31 James Shirley: Death's Final Conquest. Sc. iii. 32 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 33 Take the instant way; Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 4. For emulation hath a thousand sons, 34 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3. Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. 35 ACTORS see Stage. Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 7. A strutting player, whose conceit Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich To hear the wooden dialogue and sound "Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage. 36 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3. What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Will you see the players well bestowed? . They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. 38 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Churchill: Apology. Line 206. The strolling tribe; a despicable race. 39 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, ADAPTABILITY. Pope: Prol. to Addison's Cato. All things are ready, if our minds be so. 41 ADIEU Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. see Farewell, Parting. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1. Adieu, adieu! iny native shore Fades o'er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, Yon sun that sets upon the sea Farewell awhile to him and thee, 43 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto 1. St. 13. ADMONITION -see Advice. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 76. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 45 Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282. ADVERSITY- see Affliction. Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! all gone! and not One friend, to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him. Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 2 46 47 The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3 48 Shaks.: Iamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |