ARTIFICE. ASCEND. 59 ARTIFICE. WHY I can smile, and murder while I smile, He soon aware, Shakspere. Each perturbation smoothed with outward calm, That practised falsehood under saintly shew.-Milton. Shallow artifice begets suspicion, And, like a cobweb veil, but thinly shades What should have ne'er been seen; imperfect mischief! Hast stung the traveller; and after hear'st Not his pursuing voice; e'en when thou think'st Confess, and point the path which thou hast crept. A man of sense can artifice disdain, As men of wealth may venture to go plain; ASCEND-ASCENSION. THEN rising from His grave, Spoiled principalities, and powers triumphed In open show; and, with ascension bright, Captivity led captive. ** * * * Congreve. Young. Then to the heaven of heavens shall He ascend What star I know not, but some star I find, No land but Italy erects the sight Milton. Dryden. To such a vast ascent, or swells to such a height. Addison. 60 60 ASKANT. ASPIRATIONS. ASKANT-ASLANT. SOME say he bids his angels turn askance Since the space that lies on either side Lost to the light by that unhappy space, Milton. Blackmore. There is a willow grows aslant a brook ASPIRATIONS. THERE is betwixt that smile we would aspire to, Hence springs that universal strong desire Aspiring to be gods if angels fell, Sir J. Davies. Pope. Longings sublime, and aspirations high. Byron. The high-born soul Disdains to rest her heaven-aspiring wing ** Sweeps the long tract of day. For from the birth Of mortal man the Sovereign Maker said, Power's purple robes nor pleasure's flowery lap, Through all the ascent of things enlarge her own, As flame ascends; As bodies to their proper centre move; 61 Akenside. Akenside. Thrice happy they, who fixing hope and aim And to one purpose cleave, their being's God-like mate. ASSASSINATION. Is there a crime Beneath the roof of heaven, that stains the soul Assassination? 'Tis bad enough when the assassin stabs The perishable body, sending man Unto his dread account all unprepared; But, Oh! 'tis worse when he essays to pierce The principle of virtue, which alone Cibber. Could save, through grace divine, him from perdition. This, this, indeed, is dire assassination! H. G. A. WHAT man is he that boasts of fleshly might, Spenser. But what on earth can long abide in state? Spenser. "Tis far off, And rather like a dream, than the assurance Shakspere. But yet I'll make assurance doubly sure, Shakspere. With all the assurance innocence can bring, ATHEIST. To these, the sober race of men, whose lives Atheist, use thine eyes, And having viewed the order of the skies, Dryden. Milton. Think, if thou canst, that matter blindly hurled Without a guide, should frame this wondrous world. An atheist!-he hath never faced an hour Begot, and oft a parasite to sin, Too dear to be deserted; for the truth Creech. R. Montgomery. ATTEMPT. ATTENDANCE. ATTEMPT. HE flattering his displeasure, Tript me behind, got praises of the king, Who, in all things wise and just, Hindered not Satan to attempt the mind 63 Shakspere. Of man, with strength entire and free-will armed. The wise and active conquer difficulties, Toiling-rejoicing sorrowing, Each morning sees some task begin, Something attempted, something done, Milton. Rowe. Longfellow. ATTENDANCE-ATTENTION. I DANCE attendance here. I think the duke will not be spoke withal. They say the tongues of dying men Shakspere. Enforce attention like deep harmony. Shakspere. I'm never merry when I hear sweet music; The first true cause, and last good end, Shakspere. Sir John Davies. Attendance none shall need, nor train, where none Are to behold the judgment, but the judged; Those two. Milton. |