AFFLICTION—continued. AFFLICTION-AGE. We must conclude it best it should be so, 11 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 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.n.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. 17.11.5. 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, 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. [II. 2, 322. See how the world its veterans rewards! * One of Capel Lofft's ingenious aphorisms, published in 1812. 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, Shall our pale, wither'd hands, be still stretch'd out, With av'rice, and convulsions, grasping hard? What folly can be ranker? Like our shadows, Broome. Young, N. T. IV. Young, N. T. v. Young, N. T. v. Goldsmith, She Stoops, III. We see time's furrows on another's brow, 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. 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. 11. 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 she sat-alone! that worn-out word, Massinger. New Timon. Though sluggards deem it but a foolish chase, ALPS. Above me are the Alps, The palaces of Nature, whose vast walls Have pinnacled in clouds their snowy scalps, Of cold sublimity, where forms and falls The avalanche-the thunderbolt of snow!- ALPS-continued. Gather around these summits, as to show How earth may pierce to Heaven, yet leave vain man below. Byron, Ch. H. 111. 62. Who first beholds the Alps,-that mighty chain Of mountains, stretching on from east to west, A sense, a feeling that he loses not A something that informs him 't is a moment But, like dumb statues, or breathless stones, AMBER. Pretty! in amber to observe the forms Rogers. Sh. Ham. III. 4. Sh. Ric. III. III. 7. Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms! But wonder how the devil they got there. Pope, Ep, to Arb. AMBITION-see Fame, Glory, Pride. Raleigh. Fain would I climb, but that I fear to fall. [169. Q. El. If thy mind fail thee, do not climb at all. Scott, Ken.XVII Fling away ambition; By that sin fell the angels: how can man then, The image of his Maker, hope to win by't? Sh. H. VIII. III. 2. Like little wanton boys that swim on bladders, But far beyond my depth; my high-blown pride Sh. H. VIII. III. 2. Sh. Jul. C. I. 2. Men at some time are masters of their fates: Sh. Jul. C. II. 1. |