Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 4

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=Apparel.=
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,?But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy:?For the apparel oft proclaims the man.?94?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.
=Apparitions.=
How fading are the joys we dote upon!?Like apparitions seen and gone.?95?JOHN NORRIS: The Parting.
=Appeal.=
I have done the state some service, and they know it.?No more of that; I pray you in your letters,?When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,?Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,?Nor set down aught in malice.?96?SHAKS.: Othello, Act v., Sc. 2.
=Appearances.=
All that glisters is not gold,?Gilded tombs do worms infold.?97?SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 7.
Appearances to save, his only care;?So things seem right no matter what they are.?98?CHURCHILL: Rosciad, Line 299.
=Appetite.=
Now good digestion wait on appetite,?And health on both.?99?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4.
His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook,?Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook.?100?CHURCHILL: Gotham, iii., Line 133.
=Applause.=
I would applaud thee to the very echo,?That should applaud again.?101?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3
Oh popular applause! what heart of man?Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms??102?COWPER: Task, Bk. ii., Line 481.
The applause of list'ning senates to command.?103?GRAY: Elegy, St. 16
=April.=
Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote?The droughte of March hath perced to the rote.?104?CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1.
April cold with dropping rain?Willows and lilacs brings again,?The whistle of returning birds,?And trumpet-lowing of the herds.?105?EMERSON: May-day, Line 124.
When aince Aprile has fairly come,?An' birds may bigg in winter's lum,?An' pleisure's spreid for a' and some
O' whatna state,?Love, wi' her auld recruitin' drum,
Than taks the gate.?106?ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Underwoods, Bk. ii., iii.
=Argument.=
In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill,?For e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still.?107?GOLDSMITH: Des. Village, Line 211
=Aristocracy.=
'Tis from high life high characters drawn;?A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.?108?POPE: Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 135.
=Art.=
Seraphs share with thee?Knowledge: But art, O man, is thine alone!?109?SCHILLER: Artists, St 2.
Art is the child of Nature; yes,?Her darling child, in whom we trace?The features of the mother's face,?Her aspect and her attitude.?110?LONGFELLOW: _K��ramos._
=Artist.=
In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed,?To make some good, but others to exceed.?111?SHAKS.: Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3.
=Aspect.=
With grave?Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem'd?A pillar of state.?112?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300.
=Aspiration.=
'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;?He rises on the toe; that spirit of his?In aspiration lifts him from the earth.?113?SHAKS.: Troil. and Cress., Act iv., Sc. 5.
=Assurance.=
I'll make assurance double sure,?And take a bond of fate.?114?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Atheism.=
By night an atheist half believes a God.?115?YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 176.
=Athens.=
Ancient of days! august Athena! where,?Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul??Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were?First in the race that led to glory's goals?They won, and pass'd away.?116?BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2.
Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts?And eloquence.?117?MILTON: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 240.
=Attempt.=
The attempt and not the deed?Confounds us.?118?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act ii., Sc. 2.
=Attention.=
The tongues of dying men?Enforce attention like deep harmony.?119?SHAKS.: Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1.
=Audience.=
Still govern thou my song,?Urania, and fit audience find, though few.?120?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 30,
=August.=
Rejoice! ye fields, rejoice! and wave with gold,?When August round her precious gifts is flinging;?Lo! the crushed wain is slowly homeward rolled:?The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are singing.?121?RUSKIN: The Months.
=Aurora.=
Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn,?Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.?122?POPE: Iliad, Bk. viii., Line 1.
=Author.=
Most authors steal their works, or buy;?Garth did not write his own Dispensary,?123?POPE: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 59.
No author ever spar'd a brother.?124?GAY: Fables, The Elephant and the Bookseller.
How many great ones may remember'd be,?Which in their days most famously did flourish,?Of whom no word we hear, nor sign now see,?But as things wip'd out with a sponge do perish.?125?SPENSER: Ruins of Time, St. 52.
=Authority.=
Man, proud man,?Drest in a little brief authority,?Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,?His glassy essence--like an angry ape,?Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven?As make the angels weep!?126?SHAKS.: M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2.
=Autumn.=
Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness!?Close bosom friend of the maturing sun;?Conspiring with him how to load and bless?With, fruit the vines that round the thatch-eaves run;?To bend with apples the moss'd cottage trees,?And fill all fruit with ripeness to the core.?127?KEATS: To Autumn.
Divinest autumn! who may paint thee best,?Forever changeful o'er the changeful globe??Who guess thy certain crown, thy favorite crest,?The fashion of thy many-colored robe??128?R.H. STODDARD: Autumn.
Autumn wins you best by this its mute?Appeal to sympathy for its decay.?129?ROBERT BROWNING: Paracelsus, Sc. i.
The lands are lit?With all the autumn blaze of Golden Rod;?And everywhere the Purple Asters nod?And bend and wave and flit.?130?HELEN HUNT: Asters and Golden Rod.
I saw old Autumn in the misty morn?Stand shadowless like silence, listening?To silence, for no lonely bird would sing?Into his hollow ear from woods forlorn,?Nor lowly hedge