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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. Cæsar,_ 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 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