ARBITRATION-ARBITRATOR. THIS might have been prevented, and made whole, Which now the manage of two kingdoms met Shakspere. But now the arbitrator of despair, Just death, kind umpire of men's miseries, With sweet enlargement doth dismiss me hence. Shakspere. The end crowns all, And that old common arbitrator, time, Shakspere. Yet when an equal prize of hope and fear Milton. Though heaven be shut, And heaven's high arbitrator sit secure ARBOUR. Milton. LET us divide our labours; thou, where choice Leads thee, or where most needs, whether to wind For noonday's heat are closer arbours made, Milton. And for fresh evening air the opener glade.-Dryden. ARCADE-ARCH. THE nations of the field and wood Build on the wave, or arch beneath the sand.-Pope. Load some vain church with old theatric state, Reverse your ornaments, and hang them all Or call the winds through long arcades to roar, Pope. 52 ARCHANGEL. ARCHITECT. Let Rome in Tiber melt, and the wide arch Hath nature given them eyes Shakspere. To see this vaulted arch, and the rich cope Of sea and land. Shakspere. Gates of monarchs Are arched so high, that giants may get through. ARCHANGEL. Shakspere. HIS form had yet not lost All its original brightness, nor appeared Milton. 'Tis sure the archangel's trump I hearNature's great passing-bell, the only call Of God, that will be heard by all. Norris. ARCHITECT-ARCHITRAVE. THE hasty multitude Admiring entered, and the work some praise, Our fathers next in architecture skill'd, Milton. Blackmore. Westward a pompous frontispiece appeared, ARGOSY. YOUR mind is tossing on the ocean; Shakspere. Look, where yon argosy, which late did set Egone. ARGUMENT. OUT idle words, servants to shallow fools; For me I fear not arguments a straw, Since that my case is past the help of law.-Shakspere. But all 's not true that supposition saith, Nor have the weightiest arguments most faith. To the height of this great argument I may assert eternal providence, Sad task! yet argument Drayton. And justify the ways of God to man. Not less, but more heroic than the wrath Milton. For arguments, like children, should be like Decker. Afflicted sense thou kindly dost set free; Oppressed with argumental tyranny, And routed reason finds a safe retreat in thee.-Pope. Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes He'd undertake to prove, by force A calf an alderman, a goose a justice, -Herbert. And rooks committee-men and trustees.--Butler. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For even though vanquished, he could argue still. Goldsmith. ARISE-AROSE. HARK! hark! the lark at heaven's gate sings, And Phoebus 'gins arise, His steeds to water at those springs On chaliced flowers that lies; And winking Mary buds begin To ope their golden eyes; And everything that pretty bin: Arise! arise! He rose, and looking up, beheld the skies Shakspere. Dryden, from Virgil. But absent, what fantastic woes aroused, Arouse thee, soul! God made not thee to sleep Thompson. In doing nought thy hour of life away; O use it for His glory while you may. Robert Nicol. ARM-ARMS-ARMED. O GOD thy arm was here! And not to us but to Thy arm alone Ascribe we all. Shakspere. The sword Of Michael from the armoury of God Was given him tempered so, that neither keen Milton. With plain heroic magnitude of mind, And celestial vigour armed, he Their armories and magazines continued. Milton. Beneath the lowering brow, and on a bent, The whole division that to Mars pertains, Dryden. True conscious honour is to feel no sin; Hide me ye forests in your closest bowers, And with the beech in mutual shade combines. Gay. For if our God, the Lord armipotent, Those armed angels in our aid send down, That were at Dathan to his prophet sent, Thou wilt come down with them, and will defend In every heart Fairfax. Are sown the sparks that kindle fiery war; |