ATTICUS.-Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he? POFE.-Prol. to Sat., Line 213. AUDIENCE.-Let me have andience for a word or two. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act V. Scene 4. (Jacques to De Bois.) AULD LANG SYNE.-Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'? Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And days o' lang syne? BURNS-Auld Lang Syne, Verse 1. AUSTERITY.-Here's a starch'd piece of austerity! BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.-The Wild Goose AUTHOR.-1. Madam, a man in marvellous foul linen, bedaggled all over, and who, so please you, looks very much like a poet, wants to speak with you. 2. Shew him up; don't stir, gentlemen, 'tis but an author. LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 11. AUTHORITY.— Man, proud man! Dress'd in a little brief authority; Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, His glassy essence-like an angry ape Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven, As make the angels weep. SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II. AUTUMN.—All-cheering plenty, with her flowing horn, Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf, THOMSON.-Autumn, Line 1. AVOIDED.-Of all men else I have avoided thee: But get thee back. SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7. AWAKE.-Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen! MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 330. AWAKE.-Awake, Æolian lyre, awake! Awake up, my glory; awake, lute and harp! Awake, My fairest, my espoused, my latest found, MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book V. Lines 18, 896. AWE. The roaring cataract, the snow-topt hill, I cannot tell what you and other men In awe of such a thing as I myself. SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2. BABE-Bent o'er her babe, her eye dissolved in dew; Gave the sad presage of his future years, The child of misery, baptiz'd in tears! LANGHORNE.-The Country Justice. BACHELOR.-When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act II. BACKING.-Call you that backing of your friends? SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. BACON.-If parts allure thee, think how Bacon shined, POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 281. BAG AND BAGGAGE.-Come, shepherd, let us make an honourable retreat, though not with bag and baggage, yet with scrip and scrippage. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act III. Scene 2. (Touchstone to Corin.) It will let in and out the enemy, With bag and baggage. SHAKSPERE.- Take her to yourselves, with pigs and with basket. RILEY'S Plautus.-Vol. II. The Mercator, Act [Analagous to our phrases, "bag and baggage," "stump and rump."] BAIT.-Your bait of falsehood takes the carp of truth. BALAAM.-And sad Sir Balaam curses God and dies. BALANCE. The doubtful beam long nods from side to side. First he weigh'd The pendulous round earth with balanced air, In counterpoise, now ponders all events, Battles and realms: in these he put two weights, The latter quick up flew, and kick'd the beam. MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 999; BALSAM.-Is this the balsam that the usuring senate pours into captains' wounds? SHAKSPERE.-Timon of Athens, Act III. Scene 5. (Alcibiades to himself.) BANE.-My death and life, My bane and antidote, are both before me. ADDISON. Cato, Act V. Scene 1. BANNERS.-Hang out our banners on the outward walls; The cry is still-"They come!" SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5. BANISHMENT.-Eating the bitter bread of banishment. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II. Act III. Scene 1. (Bolingbroke.) BEAUMONT and FLETCHER. -The Lover's Progress, Act V. Scene 1. BANKRUPT.-A bankrout, a prodigal, who dare scarce show his head on the Rialto, SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act III. Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. DRYDEN.-Absalom and Ahithophel. What a bankrupt am I made Of a full stock of blessings! FORD.-Perkin Warbeck, Act III. Scene 2. BAR.-Sweat, and wrangle at the bar. BEN JONSON.-The Forest, to Sir Robert Worth. A group of wranglers from the bar, Suspending here their mimic war. BLOOMFIELD.-Banks of the Wye, Book I. BARK.-Oh! while along the stream of Time thy name Say, shall my little bark attendant sail, Pursue the triumph, and partake the gale? POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 383. BARREN.-I pity the man who can travel from Dan to Beersheba, and cry, "Tis all barren. STERNE. A street in Calais Sentimental BASE.-Lewd fellows of the baser sort. ACTS, Chapter XVII. Verse 5. I saw them murd'ring in cold blood, Not the gentlemen, but wild and rude The baser sort SCOTT.-Waverley, Preface to Third Edition. A base perjury man. COLMAN, JUN.-Heir-at-Law, Act IV. Scene 1. 1. And how does noble Chamont? 2. Never ill, man, until I hear of baseness, Then I sicken. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.-Nice Valour, Act I. BASE.-To what base uses we may return, Horatio! BASILISK.-It is a basilisk unto mine eye; Kills me to look on't. SHAKSPERE.-Cymbeline, Act II. Scene 4. BATTERY.-Let him alone, I'll go another way to work with him; I'll have an action of battery against him, if there be any law in Illyria; though I struck him first, yet it's no matter for that. SHAKSPERE.-Twelfth Night, Act IV. Scene 1. (Sir Andrew to Sir Toby.) Prove this, thou wicked Hannibal, or I'll have mine action of battery on thee. SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II. Why does he suffer this rude knave now to knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel, and will not tell him of his action of battery? SHAKSPERE.-Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. BATTLE.-For Freedom's battle once begun, Though baffled oft is ever won. BYRON.-The Giaour, Line 123. What a charming thing's a battle! BICKERSTAFF.-The Recruiting Serjeant, Scene 4. BE.-To be, or not to be, that is the question; Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And, by opposing, end them? SHAKSPERE.Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. BEARDS-How many cowards, wear yet upon their chins SHAKSPERE. - Merchant of Venice, Act III. |