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IMPERFECTIONS-INDEPENDENCE.

IMPERFECTIONS.-Sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.

SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5.
(The Ghost to Hamlet.)

IMPOSSIBLE.-And what's impossible, can't be,
And never, never comes to pass.

GEORGE COLMAN, JUN.-The Water Fiend.

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IMPRESSION.-Time but the impression stronger makes, As streams their channels deeper wear.

BURNS-Mary in Heaven, Verse IV.

INACTIVITY.-The Commons, faithful to their system, remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

SIR JAMES MACKINTOSH.-Defence of the French
Revolution, Sect. I. Page 23.

With skilled negligence.

VAUGHAN.-To St. Mary Magdalene, Line 19.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

MACKINTOSH.-Dissert. on Ethical Philosophy.
Remarks on Thomas Brown.

Disciplined inaction.

MACKINTOSH.-Causes of the Revolution of 1688,
Chap. VII.

INCUBATION.-Th' appointed time
With pious toil fulfill'd, the callow young,
Warm'd and expanded into perfect life,
Their little bondage break, and come to light,
A helpless family, demanding food

With constant clamour.

THOMSON.-Spring, Line 666.

INDEPENDENCE.-Ourselves are to ourselves the cause

of ill;

We may be independent if we will.

CHURCHILL.-Independence, Line 471.

The man who by his labour gets
His bread in independent state,

Who never begs, and seldom eats,
Himself can fix or change his fate.

PRIOR.-The Old Gentry, Verse 5.

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INDEX.-So, Mr. Index, what news with you?
FIELDING. The Author's Preface, Act II.
Scene 4.

What act,

That roars so loud, and thunders in the index? SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (The Queen to Hamlet.)

INDUSTRY.-In every rank, or great or small,
'Tis industry supports us all.

GAY.-Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly, Part II.
Fable VIII. Line 62.

INFANCY.-At first, the infant,

Mewling and puking in his nurse's arms.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like it, Act II. Scene 7.
(Jaques.)

Infancy, straining backward from the breast,
Tetchy and wayward, what he loveth best
Refusing in his fits, whilst all the while
The mother eyes the wrangler with a smile.
CHURCHILL.-Gotham, Book I.

INFECTED.-All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundic'd eye.

POPE.-On Criticism, Line 558.

Stand off, sycophant,

And keep infection distant.

DRYDEN.-Don Sebastion, Act II. Scene 1.

INFIDEL.-Ye baptiz'd infidels! ye worse for mending.
YOUNG.-Night IV. Line 235.

INFIRM.-Infirm of purpose.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act II. Scene 2.

(Lady Macbeth.)

That last infirmity of noble minds.

MILTON. Lycidas, Line 71.

Though the desire of fame be the last weakness

Wise men put off.

MASSINGER.-A Very Woman, Act V. Scene 4. and Gifford's Note on this passage.

INFLUENCE-INGRATITUDE.

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INFLUENCE.-I am sorry to say, Sir Anthony, that my affluence over my niece is very small.

SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.

INGRATITUDE.-Scatter your favours on a fop,
Ingratitude's the certain crop.

POPE.-Imitation of Horace, Epistle VII.

Ingratitude! thou marble-hearted fiend,
More hideous, when thou show'st thee in a child,
Than the sea-monster!

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act I. Scene 4.

How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is
To have a thankless child.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act I. Scene 4.
(Lear to Albany.)

Strike flat the thick rotundity o' the world!
Crack nature's moulds, all germens spill at once,
That make ingrateful man!

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act III. Scene 2.
(Lear and Fool upon the heath.)

I hate ingratitude more in a man

Than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness,
Or any taint of vice.

SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4.
(Viola to Antonio.)

Blow, blow, thou winter wind,

Thou art not so unkind

As man's ingratitude.

SHAKSPERE.-As you Like it, Act II. Scene 7. (A Song, Amien sings.)

As we do turn our backs

From our companion thrown into his grave.
So his familiars to his buried fortunes

Slink all away; leave their false vows with him
Like empty purses pick'd: and his poor self,

A dedicated beggar to the air.

SHAKSPERE.-Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 2.
(2nd Servant.)

Deserted, at his utmost need,
By those his former bounty fed;
On the bare earth exposed he lies,
With not a friend to close his eyes.

DRYDEN.-Alexander's Feast.

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INN.-There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced, as by a good tavern or inn.

BOSWELL'S Johnson, March, 1776.

Shall I not take mine ease at mine inn?

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act III.
Scene 3. (Falstaff to the Hostess.)

Whoe'er has travell'd life's dull round,
Where'er his stages may have been,'
May sigh to think he still has found
The warmest welcome at an inn.

SHENSTONE.-Written at an Inn at Henley.

Along the varying road of life,
In calm content, in toil or strife,
At morn or noon, by night or day,
As time conducts him on the way,
How oft doth man, by care oppress'd,
Find in an inn a place of rest?

GEORGE COMBE.-Doctor Syntax, Chap. IX.

Where'er his fancy bids him roam,
In ev'ry inn he finds a home.

Will not an inn his cares beguile,

Where on each face he sees a smile?

GEORGE COMBE.-Doctor Syntax, Chap. IX.

INNOCENCE.-Go in thy native innocence; rely
On what thou hast of virtue.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 373.

Innocence, that as a veil
Had shadow'd them from knowing ill, was gone.
MILTON.-Ibid. Line 1054.

INSCRIPTIONS.-Inscriptions of various names I view'd,
The greater part by hostile time subdued.

POPE.-Temple of Fame, Line 31.

INSTINCT.-Instinct is a great matter;

I was a coward on instinct.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act II.
Scene 4. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

INSULT.-Of all the griefs that harass the distress'd,
Sure the most bitter is a scornful jest ;

Fate never wounds more deep the generous heart,
Than when a blockhead's insult points the dart.
DR. JOHNSON.-London, Line 166.

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INTERCOURSE.-The kindly intercourse will ever prove A bond of amity and social love.

BLOOMFIELD.-Farmer's Boy, Winter.

INTEREST.-Int'rest makes all seem Reason that leads to it. Int'rest that does the zeal of sects create,

To purge a Church, and to reform a State.

DRYDEN.-The Maiden Queen, Act IV. Scene 1.

INTERPRETER.-Egad! I think the interpreter is the hardest to be understood of the two!

R. B. SHERIDAN.-The Critic, Act I. Scene 1.

INTOXICATION.-Man, being reasonable, must get drunk;
The best of life is but intoxication:
Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk
The hopes of all men, and of every nation;
But to return, get very drunk, and when

You wake with headache, you shall see what then.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 179.

INTRUDE.-I hope I don't intrude.

ANONYMOUS.-The Maid of the Oaks, Act II.

INTRUDER-Unmannerly intruder as thou art!

SHAKSPERE. Titus Andronicus, Act II. Scene 3.
(Tamora to Bassianus.)

IRELAND.-Long, from a nation ever hardly used,
At random censured, wantonly abused,

Have Britons drawn their sport; with partial view
Form'd general notions from the rascal few.

CHURCHILL.-The Rosciad, Line 529.

IRONICALLY-Fy, fy, Sir Anthony! you surely speak laconically.

SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

IS IT COME TO THIS?

SHAKSPERE.-Antony and Cleo. Act III. Scene 11.
(Cleopatra to Antony)

ITCHING.-Let me tell you, Cassius, you yourself
Are much condemn'd to have an itching palm.

IVY.

SHAKSPERE. Julius Caesar, Act IV. Scene 3.
(Brutus to Cassius.)

He was

The ivy which had hid my princely trunk,

And suck'd my verdure out on't.

SHAKSPERE.-The Tempest, Act I. Scene 2.
(Prospero to Miranda.)

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