Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 3

to lay his weary bones among ye;?Give him a little earth for charity!?56?SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iv., Sc. 2.
We see time's furrows on another's brow...?How few themselves in that just mirror see!?57?YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 627.
O, sir! I must not tell my age.?They say women and music should never be dated.?58?GOLDSMITH: She Stoops to Con., Act iii.
What is the worst of woes that wait on age??What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow??To view each loved one blotted from life's page,?And be alone on earth as I am now.?59?BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 98.
Old age comes on apace to ravage all the clime.?60?BEATTIE: The Minstrel, Bk. i., St. 25.
But an old age serene and bright,?And lovely as a Lapland night,?Shall lead thee to thy grave.?61?WORDSWORTH: To a Young Lady.
=Agony.=
A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry?Of some strong swimmer in his agony.?62?BYRON: Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 53.
=Agreement.=
Could we forbear dispute and practise love,?We should agree as angels do above.?63?WALLER: Divine Love, Canto iii.
Where order in variety we see,?And where, though all things differ, all agree.?64?POPE: Windsor Forest, Line 13.
=Aim.=
Better have failed in the high aim, as I,?Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed.?65?ROBERT BROWNING: The Inn Album, iv.
=Air.=
When he speaks,?The air, a chartered libertine, is still?66?SHAKS.: Henry V., Act i., Sc. 1.
=Alacrity.=
I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.?67?SHAKS.: Mer. W. of W., Act iii., Sc. 5.
=Ale.=
Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.?68?MILTON: L'Allegro, Line 100.
A Rechabite poor Will must live,?And drink of Adam's ale.?69?PRIOR: The Wandering Pilgrim.
=Alexandrine.=
A needless Alexandrine ends the song,?That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.?70?POPE: E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 156.
=Alone.=
Alone, alone,--all, all alone;?Alone on a wide, wide sea.?71?COLERIDGE: The Ancient Mariner, Pt. iv.
=Amazement.=
But look! Amazement on thy mother sits;?O step between her and her fighting soul:?Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.?72?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.
=Amber.=
Pretty! in amber to observe the forms?Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!?The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,?But wonder how the devil they got there.?73?POPE: Epis. to Arbuthnot, Line 169.
=Ambition.=
Fling away ambition;?By that sin fell the angels: how can man then,?The image of his Maker, hope to win by it??74?SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iii, Sc. 2.
I have no spur?To prick the sides of my intent, but only?Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,?And falls on the other.?75?SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act i, Sc. 7.
Ambition has but one reward for all:?A little power, a little transient fame,?A grave to rest in, and a fading name.?76?WILLIAM WINTER: Queen's Domain.
To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:?Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.?77?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 262.
Such joy ambition finds.?78?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 92.
=America.=
America! half brother of the world!?With something good and bad of every land;?Greater than thee have lost their seat--?Greater scarce none can stand.?79?BAILEY: Festus,_ Sc. _The Surface.
=Anarchy.=
Where eldest Night?And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold?Eternal anarchy amidst the noise?Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.?80?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 894.
=Ancestry.=
The sap which at the root is bred?In trees, through all the boughs is spread;?But virtues which in parents shine?Make not like progress through the line.?81?WALLER: To Zelinda.
What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards??Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.?82?POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 215.
=Angels.=
Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.?83?POPE: E. on Criticism, Pt. iii., Line 66.
The angels come and go, the messengers of God.?84?R.H. STODDARD: Hymn to the Beautiful.
The good he scorn'd?Stalk'd off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,?Not to return; or if it did, in visits?Like those of angels, short and far between.?85?BLAIR: The Grave, Pt. ii., Line 586.
=Anger.=
Anger's my meat; I sup upon myself,?And so shall starve with feeding.?86?SHAKS.: Coriolanus, Act iv., Sc. 2.
Never anger made good guard for itself.?87?SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Angling.=
The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish?Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,?And greedily devour the treacherous bait.?88?SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 1.
'Twas merry when?You wager'd on your angling; when your diver?Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he?With fervency drew up.?89?SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 5.
=Anticipation.=
Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite?To cast the fashion of uncertain evils;?For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown,?What need a man forestall his date of grief,?And run to meet what he would most avoid??90?MILTON: Comus, Line 359.
=Antiquity.=
O good old man! how well in thee appears?The constant service of the antique world,?When service sweat for duty, not for meed!?Thou art not for the fashion of these times,?Where none will sweat, but for promotion.?91?SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3.
Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways?Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers.?92?WARTON: Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon.
=Apathy.=
In lazy apathy let stoics boast?Their virtue fix'd; 'tis fixed as in a frost.?93?POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line