Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 2

grow?To vaunt themselves God's laws.?15?CHARLES KINGSLEY: Saints' Tragedy, Act ii., Sc. 4.
By many a happy accident.?16?MIDDLETON: No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman's, Act ii., Sc. 2.
=Account.=
No reckoning made, but sent to my account?With all my imperfections on my head.?17?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.
=Accusation.=
Accuse not Nature: she hath done her part;?Do thou but thine.?18?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 561.
=Achievements.=
Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd,?And then they shine.?19?BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: Loyal Subject, Act i., Sc. 5.
=Acquaintance.=
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,?And never brought to mind??Should auld acquaintance be forgot,?And days o' lang syne??20?BURNS: Auld Lang Syne.
=Action.=
Pleasure and action make the hours seem short.?21?SHAKS.: Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3.
Of every noble action, the intent?Is to give worth reward--vice punishment.?22?BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: Captain, Act v., Sc. 5.
Only the actions of the just?Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.?23?JAMES SHIRLEY: Death's Final Conquest, Sc. iii.
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws?Makes that and th' action fine.?24?HERBERT: The Elixir.
=Activity.=
If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well?It were done quickly.?25?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7.
Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss,?But cheerly seek how to redress their harms.?26?SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 4.
=Actors.=
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.?27?SHAKS.: Troil. and Cress., Act i., Sc. 3.
The world's a theatre, the earth a stage?Which God and Nature do with actors fill.?28?THOMAS HEYWOOD: Apology for Actors.
=Adaptability.=
All things are ready, if our minds be so.?29?SHAKS.: Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 3.
=Address.=
And the tear that is wiped with a little address?May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.?30?COWPER: The Rose.
=Adieu.=
Adieu, adieu! my native shore?Fades o'er the waters blue.?31?BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 13.
Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.?32?GAY: Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.
=Admiration.=
Season your admiration for a while.?33?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc 2.
=Adoration.=
The holy time is quiet as a nun?Breathless with adoration.?34?WORDSWORTH: It is a Beauteous Evening.
=Adorning.=
Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,?Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.?35?GOLDSMITH: Des. Village, Line 232.
Loveliness?Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,?But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.?36?THOMSON: Seasons, Autumn, Line 204.
=Adversity.=
Sweet are the uses of adversity,?Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,?Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;?And this our life, exempt from public haunt,?Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,?Sermons in stones, and good in everything.?37?SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1.
A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,?We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;?But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,?As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.?38?SHAKS.: Com. of Errors, Act ii., Sc. 1.
I am not now in fortune's power:?He that is down can fall no lower.?39?BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 877.
For of fortunes sharpe adversite,?The worst kind of infortune is this,--?A man that hath been is prosperite,?And it remember whan it passed is.?40?CHAUCER: Troilus and Creseide, Bk. iii., Line 1625.
=Advice.=
Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;?Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.?41?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.
Know when to speak--for many times it brings?Danger, to give the best advice to kings.?42?HERRICK: Aph. Caution in Council.
The worst men often give the best advice.?43?BAILEY Festus,_ Sc. _A Village Feast.
'Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.?44?CRABBE: The Learned Boy.
=Affectation.=
There affectation, with a sickly mien,?Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen;?Practis'd to lisp, and hang the head aside;?Faints into airs, and languishes with pride;?On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,?Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show.?45?POPE: R. of the Lock, Canto iv., Line 31.
=Affection.=
Why, she would hang on him,?As if increase of appetite had grown?By what it fed on.?46?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2.
Affection is a coal that must be cool'd,?Else, suffer'd, it will set the heart on fire.?47?SHAKS.: Venus and A., Line 387.
=Affliction.=
Affliction is the good man's shining scene;?Prosperity conceals his brightest ray;?As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man.?48?YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night ix., Line 406.
Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced?That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction.?49?JOHN BROWN: Barbarossa, Act v., Sc. 3.
=Affronts.=
Young men soon give and soon forget affronts;?Old age is slow in both.?50?ADDISON: Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5.
=Age.=
When the age is in, the wit is out.?51?SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 5
His silver hairs?Will purchase us a good opinion,?And buy men's voices to commend our deeds;?It shall be said,--his judgment rul'd our hands.?52?SHAKS.: _Jul. C?sar,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.
Manhood, when verging into age, grows thoughtful.?53?CAPEL LOFFT'S Aphorisms. Published in 1812.
I am declin'd into the vale of years.?54?SHAKS.: Othello, Act iii., Sc. 3.
Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale?Her infinite variety; other women?Cloy th' appetites they feed; but she makes hungry?Where most she satisfies.?55?SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 2.
An old man, broken with the storms of State,?Is come