Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 2

to be the slaves of chance, and flies
Of every
wind that blows.

13
SHAKS.: Wint. Tale, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances,
Of moving accidents by
flood and field.
14
SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.
Our wanton accidents take root, and 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.: