ADVICE-continued. ADVICE-AFFECTION. No part of conduct asks for skill more nice, The assuming wit, who deems himself so wise, Let him not dare to vent his dang'rous thought- The worst men give oft the best advice. Gentle to me, and affable hath been Thy condescension, and shall be honoured ever AFFECTATION. Stillingfleet. Pope. Bailey, Festus. Milton P. L. VIII. 248. Sh. Two G. 1. 2. Maids, in modesty, say No to that Cumberland. Pope, R. L.IV.31. Cowper, Task, 11. 415. Why, she would hang on him, Affection is a coal that must be cool'd, Sh. Ham. 1. 2. Sh. Poems. Sh. Oth. III. 3. 10 AFFECTION-AFFLICTION. AFFECTION-continued. Of all the tyrants that the world affords, Our own affections are the fiercest lords. E. Stirling, Jul. C. What we love too much, The Heavens correcting this our zeal, more strong Than our devotion toward them, take from us. Parnell, H. Gay, Fable III. 33. Where yet was ever found a mother, Young. The virtuous man and honest-he's my brother; Francis. Some feelings are to mortals given, Scott Lady of the L. 11.22. With less of earth in them than heaven; L.E. Landon. Byron, B. Ab. 1. 2. Byron. Sh. Ham. III. 2. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. When Providence, for secret ends, Browne. AFFLICTION-AGE. AFFLICTION-continued. 11 Young, N. T. 5 Pomfret, To a Friend in affliction. He went, like one that hath been stunn'd, A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn. AFFRONTS. Young, N. T. 9. Coleridge, Anct. Mar. pt. 2. To bear affronts, too great to be forgiven, Dryden, Sp. Friar. Young men soon forgive, and forget affronts; A moral, sensible, and well-bred man Addison, Cato. Will not affront me, and no other can Couper, Convers. 191. AFTERNOON. The sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm AGE-see Old Age, Years. When the age is in, the wit is out. Bryant. Sh. M. Ado. III. 5. Time hath not yet so dried this blood of mine, Nor fortune made such havoc of my means, His silver hairs Will purchase us a good opinion, Sh. M. Ado, Iv. 1. And buy men's voices to commend our deeds; It shall be said.—his judgment rul'd our hands. Sh. Jul.C.11.1. Manhood, when verging into Age, grows thoughtful, Full of wise saws, and moral instances. Sh. A. Y. L. II. 7. I know thee not, old man: fall to thy prayers: I am declin'd into the vale of years. All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players: Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Sh. H.IV.11.5. Sh. Oth. III. 3. Sh. A. Y. L. II. 7. Cloy th' appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Sh. Ant. Cleo. II. 2. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Sh. Lear, II. 4. Sh. Hen. VIII. IV. 2. When forty winters shall besiege your brow, Sh. Rom. v. 1. But fell like autumn fruit that mellow'd long, Yet freshly ran he on ten winters more, Till, like a clock worn out with eating time, The wheels of weary life at last stood still. Dryden, Ed. IV. 1. Learn to live well, or fairly make your will; You've play'd, and lov'd, and ate, and drank your fill, Walk sober off, before a sprightlier age, Comes titt'ring on, and shoves you from the stage: Leave such to trifle with more grace and ease Whom folly pleases, and whose follies please. Pope, Im. Hor. See how the world its veterans rewards! [II. 2, 322. Pope, M. Es. 11. 243. AGE-continued. AGE. A venerable aspect! Age sits with decent grace upon his visage, And worthily become his silver locks : He wears the marks of many years well spent, 13 Of virtue, truth well tried, and wise experience. Rowe, J.S.1.2. The hand of time alone disarms Her face of its superfluous charms; But adds, for every grace resign'd, A thousand to adorn her mind. Shall our pale, wither'd hands, be still stretch'd out, Broome. Young, N. T. IV. What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, O, sir! I must not tell my age. Young, N. T. v. Young, N. T.v. Goldsmith, She Stoops, III. They say women and music should never be dated. Though old, he still retain'd His manly sense, and energy of mind. Armstrong. Johnson, Van. of H. W. 293. Tho' time has touch'd her too, she still retains Yet time, who changes all, had altered him Byron. Byron Ch. Har. 111. 8 |