10 AFFECTION-AFFLICTION. AFFECTION-continued. Of all the tyrants that the world affords, What we love too much, E. Stirling, Jul. C. The Heavens correcting this our zeal, more strong 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, With less of earth in them than heaven; Scott Lady of the L. 11.22. L.E. Landon. Byron, B. Ab. 1. 2. There is in life no blessing like affection; Byron. Sh. Ham. III. 2. Let the galled jade' wince, our withers are unwrung. When Providence, for secret ends, Browne. AFFLICTION-continued. We must conclude it best it should be so, Pomfret, To a Friend in affliction. We bleed, we tremble, we forget, we smile The mind turns fool, before the cheek is dry. Young, N. T. 5. As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. 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 Cowper, Convers. 191. AFTERNOON. The sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint Settling on the sick flowers, and then again AGE-see Old Age, Years. When the age is in, the wit is out. Bryant. Sh. M. Ado. 111. 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. n.1. 12 AGE-continued. AGE. 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.II.5. Sh. Oth. III. 3. Sh. A. Y. L. II. 7. Cloy th' appetites they feed; but she makes hungry Sh. Ant. Cleo. 11. 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. Young, N. T. v. What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, Young, N. T. v. They say women and music should never be dated. Goldsmith, She Stoops, III. 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. 14 AGE-continued. AGE-ALPS. What is the worst of woes that wait on age ? AGGRESSION. Byron, Ch. H. 98. You take my house, when you do take the prop When you do take the means whereby I live. Sh. M. V. IV. 1. ALACRITY-see Promptitude. A willing heart adds feather to the heel, And makes the clown a winged Mercury. ALARM. Jo. Baillie D. M. 111. 1. What's the business, That such a hideous trumpet calls to parley, ALEXANDRINE. A needless Alexandrine ends the song, Sh.Mac. II. 3. That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along. ALLEGIANCE. Allegiance, tempted too far, is like Pope, E. Crit. 156. A sword well temper'd on an anvil tried, ALONE-see Solitude. Alone she sat-alone! that worn-out word, ALPINE TRAVEL. Massinger. New Timon. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, And marvel men should quit their easy chair, The toilsome way, and long, long league to trace, Oh, there is sweetness in the mountain air, And life that bloated ease can never hope to share. ALPS. Byron, Ch. H. 1. 30. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche-the thunderbolt of snow!- |