Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, 29 Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 21 Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, Our fatal shadows that walk by us still. 30 Fletcher: On an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 35. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 31 ACTIVITY James Shirley: Death's Final Conquest. Sc. iii - see Decision, Despatch, Energy, Promptitude If it were done, when 'tis done, then 'twere well It were done quickly. 32 Shaks.: Macbeth. Act i. Sc. 7. Wise men ne'er sit and wail their loss, Take the instant way; Shaks.: 3 Henry VI. Act v. Sc. 4. For emulation hath a thousand sons, 34 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iii. Sc. 3 Celerity is never more admired Than by the negligent. 35 ACTORS - see Stage. Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iii. Sc. 7 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. 36 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act i. Sc. 3 What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba, That he should weep for her? What would he do, That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2. Will you see the players well bestowed? . They are the abstracts and brief chronicles of the time. 38 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act ii. Sc. 2 Churchill: Apology Line 206. The strolling tribe; a despicable race. 39 To wake the soul by tender strokes of art, 40 ADAPTABILITY. Pope: Prol. to Addison's Cato. All things are ready, if our minds be so. 41 Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. ADIEU -see Farewell, Parting. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1. Adieu, adieu! iny native shore Fades o'er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, Yon sun that sets upon the sea Farewell awhile to him and thee, 43 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto 1. St. 13 ADMONITION -see Advice. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 76. A fool at forty is a fool indeed. 45 Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282 ADVERSITY -see Affliction. Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! all gone! and not One friend, to take his fortune by the arm, And go along with him. 46 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 2 This is in thee a nature but infected; 47 The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, The poor advanced makes friends of enemies. Shaks. Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3 48 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 Sweet are the uses of adversity, Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous, And this our life, exempt from pubiic haunt, Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks, 49 Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. i Where you are liberal of your loves and counsels, Like water from ye, never found again 50 Shaks. Henry VIII. Act ii. Sc. 1 51 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. I have touch'd the highest point of all my greatness; I haste now to my setting. I shall fall 52 Shaks. Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. I am not now in fortune's power: He that is down, can fall no lower. 53 Butler: Hudibras. Part I. Canto iii. Line 877. I have not quailed to danger's brow 54 Byron Giaour. Line 1035. 55 Byron: Don Juan. Canto xiv. St. 50. The good are better made by ill, As odors crush'd are better still. 56 Rogers: Jacqueline. St. 3. And fellow-countrymen have stood aloof In aught that tries the heart, how few withstand the proof!! Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. 3. 66. 57 ADVICE. Love thyself last; cherish those hearts that hate thee; Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, 58 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2. Give thy thoughts no tongue, Nor any unproportion'd thought his act. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. I shall the effect of this good lesson keep 60 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice; 61 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3 Love all, trust a few, Do wrong to none: be able for thine enemy 62 Shaks.: All's Well. Act i. Sc. 1 A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. 63 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act ii. Sc. 1 I pray thee, cease thy counsel Which falls into mine ears as profitless As water in a sieve. 64 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act v. Sc. 1. Know when to speak for many times it brings Danger, to give the best advice to kings. 65 Herrick: Aph. Caution in Council. The worst men often give the best advice. Bailey: Festus. Sc. A Village Feast 1 Alluding to the wreckers of Cornwall. AFFECTATION. Maids, in modesty, say "No" to that Which they would have the profferer construe, "Ay." That like a testy babe will scratch the nurse. 67 Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act i. Sc. 2 There affectation, with a sickly mien, Pope: R. of the Lock. Canto iv. Line 31. In man or woman, but far most in man, 69 AFFECTION Cowper: Task. Bk. ii. Line 415. see Friendship, Love. As if increase of appetite had grown 70 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. 71 Shaks.: Venus and A. Line 387. Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul 72 Shaks.: Othello. Act iii. Sc. 3 Some feelings are to mortals given, From passion's dross refined and clear, A tear so limpid and so raeek, It would not stain an angel's cheek, 'Tis that which pious fathers shed Upon a duteous daughter's head. Scott: Lady of the Lake. Canto ii. St. 22. 73 Years have not seen - time shall not see The hour that tears my soul from thee. 74 Byron Bride of Ab. Canto i. St. 11 AFFLICTION- -see Adversity. Let the galled jade wince, our withers are unwrung. 75 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |