Asses.— Its proper power to hurt, each creature feels; POPE Imitations of Horace. Satire I, Book ii, lines 85, 86 Theseus. I wonder if the lion be to speak. Demetrius. No wonder, my lord: one lion may, when many asses do. Assurance. SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer-Night's Dream, v, I I'll make assurance doubly sure, And take a bond of fate.-SHAKESPEARE, Macbeth, iv, 1 Assyrian. The Assyrian came down like the wolf on the fold, And his cohorts were gleaming in purple and gold. BYRON, Destruction of Sennacherib, st. 1 Astronomer.- An undevout astronomer is mad. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, IX, line 773 Atheism. A little philosophy inclineth man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion. . . . Atheism is rather in the lip than in the heart of man. BACON, Essay XVI: Of Atheism Atheist. By night an atheist half believes a god. YOUNG, Night Thoughts, V, line 176 Atlantis. The lost Atlantis of our youth! LONGFELLOW, Ultima Thule, Dedication, st. 2 Attempt. Attempt the end, and never stand to doubt; HERRICK, Seek and Find SHAKESPEARE, Hamlet, iii, 2 Attractive. Here's metal more attractive. Auld Lang Syne. Should auld acquaintance be forgot, We'll tak' a cup o' kindness yet, Austrian. An Austrian army, awfully arrayed, - BURNS, Auld Lang Syne ANONYMOUS, Siege of Belgrade Boldly by battery besieged Belgrade. Authors. Authors, like coins, grow dear as they grow old; It is the rust we value, not the gold. POPE, Imitations of Horace, Epistle I, Book ii, lines 35, 36 Avarice. So, for a good old gentlemanly vice, BYRON, Don Juan, Canto i, st. 216 Avenged.-'T is an old tale and often told; That loved or was avenged like me! SCOTT, Marmion, ii, st. 27 O God! if my deep prayers cannot appease thee, Yet execute thy wrath in [on] me alone; Oh, spare my guiltless wife and my poor children! SHAKESPEARE, King Richard III, i, 4 Avenging. So wills the fierce avenging Sprite, Till blood for blood atones! Ay, though he's buried in a cave, HOOD, The Dream of Eugene Aram Awake. Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen! Aweary. MILTON, Paradise Lost, I, line 33 Cassius is aweary of the world; SHAKESPEARE, Julius Cæsar, iv, 3 Axe. When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to taste a little brandy, and throwing half his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has an axe to grind. C. MINOR, Who'll Turn Grindstones? Axis. The axis of the earth sticks out visibly through the centre of each and every town or city. HOLMES, Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table, vi Baby. Who can tell what a baby thinks? Into the light of day? J. G. HOLLAND, Bitter Sweet: First Movement - The Question Stated "Where did you come from, baby dear?" G. MACDONALD, The Baby, st. I Oh, hush thee, my baby, thy sire was a knight, SCOTT, Lullaby of an Infant Chief, st. ï Bacchus. Bacchus, ever fair and young, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Bachelor. DRYDEN, Alexander's Feast, lines 54-60 When I said I would die a bachelor, I did not think I should live till I were married. SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3 Bachelor's Hall.- Bachelor's Hall, what a quare-lookin' place it is! Kape me from such all the days of my life! Pots, dishes, pans, an' such grasy commodities, His cupboard's a storehouse of comical oddities, JOHN FINLEY, Bachelor's Hall, st. 1, 2 Bad. 'Tis no shame to be bad, because 'tis so common. CYRIL TOURNEUR, The Revenger's Tragedy, ii, 1 Bairns. Oh, bairnies, cuddle doon! ALEXANDER ANDERSON, Cuddle Doon They say barnes are blessings. SHAKESPEARE, All's Well That Ends Well, i, 3 Bait.- Bait the hook well; this fish will bite. SHAKESPEARE, Much Ado about Nothing, ii, 3 Balance. I called the New World into existence to redress the balance of the Old. CANNING, The King's Message Ballads. I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads he need not care who should make the laws of a nation. ANDREW FLETCHER OF SALTOUN, Letter to the Balm. "Is there is there balm in Gilead? me, I implore!' Quoth the raven, "Nevermore!" POE, The Raven, st. 15 Banishment. The bitter bread of banishment. SHAKESPEARE, King Richard II, iii, I Bank. I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, SHAKESPEARE, Midsummer-Night's Dream, ii, 1 Banner. For ever float that standard sheet! DRAKE, The American Flag, st. 5 Oh, say, can you see, by the dawn's early light, Whose broad stripes and bright stars, through the peril- O'er the ramparts we watched, were so gallantly And the rocket's red glare, the bombs bursting in air, F. S. KEY, The Star-Spangled Banner, st. 1 Banners. Hang out our banners on the outward walls; Who treads alone Some banquet-hall deserted, And all but he departed. T. MOORE, Oft in the Stilly Night, st. 2 Bar.- Sunset and evening star, And one clear call for me! And may there be no moaning of the bar, When I put out to sea.1 1 Raise ye no cry, and let no moan Be made when I depart.-FELICIA HEMANS, The Cid's Deathbed, st. 9 But such a tide as moving seems asleep, Too full for sound and foam,1 When that which drew from out the boundless deep2 Twilight and evening bell, And after that the dark! And may there be no sadness of farewell, When I embark. TENNYSON, Crossing the Bar Barbarism.-There is a moral of all human tales; 'T is but the same rehearsal of the past, First freedom, and then glory when that fails, BYRON, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, st. 108 Barbered. Being barbered ten times o'er. SHAKESPEARE, Antony and Cleopatra, ii, 2 Bard. A bard here dwelt, more fat than bard beseems. Bark. st. 68 Bargain. So clap hands and a bargain. SHAKESPEARE, King Henry V, v, 2 That fatal and perfidious bark, MILTON, Lycidas, lines 100, 101 John Barleycorn was a hero bold, Built in the eclipse, and rigged with curses dark. Barleycorn. Of noble enterprise, For if you do but taste his blood, BURNS, John Barleycorn, st. 13 1How still the plains of the water be! The tide is in his ecstasy. The tide is at his highest height: And it is night.-LANIER, The Marshes of Glynn, st. 10 |