The true ambition there alone resides, Wouldst thou be famed? have those high acts in view, 125 Fame is the shade of immortality, And in itself a shadow. Soon as caught, 126 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vii. Line 355 The seals of office glitter in his eyes; He climbs, he pants, he grasps them. Close at his heels, a demagogue ascends, And with a dextrous jerk soon twists him down, He who ascends to mountain-tops, shall find The loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds and snow; Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 45. To th' expanded and aspiring soul, To be but still the thing it long has been, 131 Joanna Baillie: Ethwald. Act v. Sc. 5. Poor lost America, high honors missing, Knows nought of Smile and Nod, and sweet Hand-kissing; ANCESTRY -see Pedigree. The sap which at the root is bred In trees, through all the boughs is spread; Waller: To Zelinda Nobler is a limited command Given by the love of all your native land, 135 Dryden: Absalom and Achitophel. Pt. i. Line 299 Nor does it follow, 'cause a herald Can make a gentleman scarce a year old, To be descended of a race Of ancient kings in a small space, 136 138 ANGELS. Young: Love of Fame. Satire i. Line 123 Thou hast the sweetest face I ever looked on; 139 Fools rush in where angels fear to tread. 140 Pope: E. on Criticism. Pt. iii. Line 66. The angels come and go, the messengers of God. Nor, though they fade from us, do they depart – It is the childly heart: Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 1. We walk as heretofore, Adown their shining ranks, but see them nevermore 141 Cease, every joy, to glimmer on my mind, But leave, oh! leave the light of hope behind! 142 Campbell: Pl. of Hope. Pt. ii. Line 375 ANGER- - see Passion, Rage, Temper. 143 Shaks.: Coriolanus. Act iv Sc 2 Anger is like A full-hot horse; who being allow'd his way, 144 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc What sudden anger's this? How have I reap'd it? 145 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iii. Sc. 2 Never anger made good guard for itself. 146 Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act iv. Sc. 1 Away to heaven, respective lenity, Shaks: Rom. and Jul. Act ini. Sc. J. What to ourselves in passion we propose, Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. 148 O, that my tongue were in the thunder's mouth! Then with a passion would I shake the world. 149 Shaks.: King John.' Act iii. Sc. 4. You are yoked with a lamb, That carries anger as the flint bears fire; 150 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iv. Sc. 3. Heat not a furnace for your foe so hot 151 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act i. Sc. 1. And her brow clear'd, but not her troubled eye; The wind was down but still the sea ran high. 152 A woman moved is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty; And while it is so, none so dry or thirsty Will deign to sip or touch one drop of it. Byron: Don Juan. Canto vi. St. 110. 153 ANGLING. Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act v. Sc. 2. The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish 154 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 1 Our plenteous streams a various race supply, 155 Pope: Windsor Forest. Line 141. Give me mine angle; we'll to the river there, 156 ANTECEDENT. Shaks.: Ant. and Cleo. Act ii. Sc. 5. Men so noble, However faulty, yet should find respect 157 ANTICIPATION. Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act v. Sc. 2. Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite To cast the fashion of uncertain evils; For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown, Milton: Comus. Line 359. To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched, 159 ANTIPATHY. Butler: Hudibras. Part ii. Canto iii. Line 923. Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Master of passion, sways it to the mood 160 ANTIQUITY. Shaks.: M. of Venice. Act iv. Sc. L O good old man! how well in thee appears Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3. How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore He shows, on holidays, a sacred pin, That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd Queen Bess' chin. 162 Young: Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 119 18 ANTIQUITY — APPEARANCES. Ye distant spires, ye antique towers. 163 APATHY. Thos. Gray: On a Distant Prospect of Eton College A man, whose blood Is very snow broth; one who never feels The wanton stings and motions of the sense: 164 APOLOGY. Shaks.: M. for M. Act i. Sc. 5. Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow I tender it here; I do as truly suffer 165 APPAREL- see Dress. Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act v. Sc. 4. Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear; Shaks.: King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 6 Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor, 167 Shaks.: Tam. of the S. Act iv. Sc. 3. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy: 168 APPEAL. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 3. I have done the state some service, and they know it, APPEARANCES. Shaks.: Othello. Act v. Sc. 2. All that glisters is not gold, Shaks M. of Venice. Act ii. Sc. 7 170 There is a fair behavior in thee, captain; And though that nature with a beauteous wall Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee I will believe, thou hast a mind that suits With this thy fair and outward character. 171 Shaks.: Tu. Night. Act i. Sc. 2 |