16 ADORN. ADULATION. Happy is he who lives to understand Such converse, if directed by a meek, * If that be not indeed the highest love!-Wordsworth. ADORN. THOUSANDS there are in darker fame who dwell, Dryden. It is not to adorn and gild each part, Jewels at nose and lip but ill appear. Cowley. Her polish'd limbs Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.-Thomson. ADULATION. O BE sick, great Greatness! And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. Think'st thou the fiery fever will go out, Shakspere. Towards great persons use respective boldness, Doth make the parcel devil in damnation.-Herbert. ADVERSITY. SWEET are the uses of adversity, Which, like a toad, ugly and venomous, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.-Shakspere. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burthened with like weight of pain, By adversity are wrought The greatest works of admiration, Shakspere. What, if he hath decreed that I shall first Daniel. Contempts, and scorns, and snares, and violence! Adversity, sage useful guest, Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Bound in thy adamantine chain, The proud are taught to taste of pain; Milton. Somerville. With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. Thy form benign, Oh, Goddess! wear, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive; Teach me to love and to forgive; C Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man. Each breast, however fortified By courage, apathy, or pride, Gray. Mrs. Holford. ADVICE. LET me entreat You to unfold the anguish of your heart; Spenser. Know when to speak-for many times it brings Herrick. If things go wrong, each fool presumes t'advise, And that advice seems best which comes too late. Take sound advice, proceeding from a heart Sedley. Dryden. O troubled, weak, and coward as thou art! Prior. No part of conduct asks for skill more nice, Stillingfleet. ADVOCATE. ME his advocate And propitiation; all his works in me, Good or not good, ingraft. Milton. Learn what thou ow'st thy country and thy friend; Foes to all living worth except your own, AERIAL. WHERE those immortal shapes Of bright aerial spirits live insphered, Dryden. Pope. Milton. The gifts of heaven my following song pursues, Prior. Dryden, from Virgil. From all that can with fins or feathers fly, Through the aerial or the watery sky. Here subterranean works and cities see, There towns aerial in the waving tree. AFFABILITY. Pope. HEARING of her beauty and her wit, Her affability and bashful modesty, Her wondrous qualities and mild behaviour. Shakspere. Gentle to me, and affable hath been Milton. Thy condescension, and shall be honoured ever Be affable to all men, for it well In rank or station, so to bend and meet Egone. WE pour out our affections with our blood, And with our blood's affections fill our lives.-Ovid. What war so cruel, or what siege so sore, To bring the soul into captivity! Most wretched man, Spenser. That to affections does the bridle lend; Of all the tyrants that the world affords, Affections injured By tyranny, or rigour of compulsion, Spenser. Earl of Stirling. Like tempest-threatened trees, unfirmly rooted, Her sweet humour, That was as easy as a calm, and peaceful; John Ford. Fair as the flowers themselves, as sweet and gentle. Beaumont and Fletcher. Alas! our young affections run to waste, Or water but the desert; whence arise But weeds of dark luxuriance, tares of haste, Rank at the core, though tempting to the eye, Flowers whese wild odours breathe but agonies, And trees whose gums are poison: such the plants Which spring beneath her steps as passion flies O'er the world's wilderness, and vainly pants For some celestial fruit forbidden to our wants. Byron. Few are the fragments left of follies past; |