A DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS. ABDICATION. A. I give this heavy weight from off my head, With mine own tongue deny my sacred state, I profess not talking: only this, Let each man do his best. 2 Shaks.: 1 Henry IV. Act v. Sc. 2. Who does the best his circumstance allows, Does well, acts nobly — angels could no more. 3 ABSENCE. Young: Night Thoughts. Night ii. Line 91. What! keep a week away! Seven days and nights? More tedious than the dial eight score times? O weary reckoning! 4 It so falls out, Shaks.: Othello. Act iii. Sc. 4. we prize not to the worth Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iv. Sc. 1. That what we have 1 Though lost to sight, to memory dear 6 George Linley: Song. Though Lost to Sight. 1 Overrate. Condemn'd whole years in absence to deplore, 7 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 361. No happier task these faded eyes pursue; Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 47. Of all affliction taught a lover yet 9 Pope: Eloisa to A. Line 189. Ye flowers that droop, forsaken by the spring; Pope: Autumn. Line 27. 11 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 7. O Love, if you were only here Though all the bitter winds should blow, 12 O last love! O first love! My love with the true heart, T. B. Aldrich: Latakia. To think I have come to this your home, 13 Jean Ingelow: Sailing Beyond Seas. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. 14 Thomas Haynes Bayly: Isle of Beauty. Oh! couldst thou but know With what a deep devotedness of woe I wept thy absence - o'er and o'er again Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain, Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away! 15 ABSTINENCE. Moore: Lalla Rookh. V. P. of Khorassan. Against discases here the strongest fence Herrick: Aph. Abstinence. ABUNDANCE. Thick as autumnal leaves that strow the brooks 17 ABUSE-see Curses. Milton: Par. Lost. Book i. Line 302. He is deformed, crooked, old, and sere, Ill-faced, worse-bodied, shapeless every where; 18 Shaks.: Com. of Er. Act iv. Sc. 2. Thou thread, thou thimble, Thou yard, three quarters, half-yard, quarter, nail, As the unthought-on accident is guilty Ourselves to be the slaves of chance, and flies 21 Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3. Our wanton accidents take root, and grow To vaunt themselves God's laws. 22 ACCOUNT. Charles Kingsley: Saint's Tragedy. Act ii. Sc. 4. No reckoning made, but sent to my account 23 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5. Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 3. And, how his audit stands, who knows, save heaven? 24 ACHIEVEMENTS. Great things thro' greatest hazards are achiev'd, And then they shine. 25 Beaumont and Fletcher: Loyal Subject. Act i. Sc. 5. ACTION -see Industry. The evil that men do lives after them; The good is oft interred with their bones. 26 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act iii. Sc. 2. Shaks.: Othello. Act ii. Sc. 3. Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 27 Of every noble action, the intent Is to give worth reward - vice punishment. 23 Beaumont and Fletcher: Captain. Act v. Sc. 5. 1 A beautiful vale about eighteen miles from Florence. Some place the bliss in action, some in ease, Our acts our angels are, or good or ill, 30 Fletcher: On an Honest Man's Fortune. Line 35. Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their dust. 31 James Shirley: Death's Final Conquest. Sc. iii. ACTIVITY - - 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, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 33 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, Had he the motive and the cue for passion That I have? He would drown the stage with tears, Make mad the guilty, and appal the free, Confound the ignorant, and amaze, indeed, The very faculties of eyes and ears. 37 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 ADIEU Shaks.: Henry V. Act iv. Sc. 3. -see Farewell, Parting. If we do meet again, why, we shall smile; If not, why then this parting was well made. 42 Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act v. Sc. 1. Adieu, adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue; The night-winds sigh, the breakers roar, Yon sun that sets upon the sea We follow in his flight; Farewell awhile to him and thee, 43 ADMONITION Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto i. St. 13. -see Advice. Sum up at night what thou hast done by day; 44 Herbert: Temple. Church Porch. St. 76. Be wise with speed; A fool at forty is a fool indeed. Young: Love of Fame. Satire ii. Line 282. see Affliction. Such a house broke! So noble a master fallen! all gone! and not Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 2. 46 47 Shaks.: Timon of A. Act iv. Sc. 3. The great man down, you mark his favorite flies, 48 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2. |