ANGER-continued.

ANGER-ANTECEDENTS.

With fiery eyes, and with contracted brows,
He coin'd his face in the severest stamp,
And fury shook his fabric like an earthquake.

He heaved for vent, and burst like bellowing Etna,
In sounds scarce human.

There is a fatal Fury in your visage,

It blazes fierce, and menaces destruction.
When anger rushes, unrestrain'd to action,
Like a hot steed, it stumbles in its way;

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Dryden.

Rowe, Fair P.

The man of thought strikes deepest, and strikes safest.

Savage, Sir T. Ov.

His eyes like meteors roll'd, then darted down
Their red and angry beams; as if his sight
Would, like the raging dog-star, scorch the earth,
And kindle rivers in its course.

Those hearts that start at once into a blaze,
And open all their rage, like summer storms
At once discharged grow cool again and calm.

Congreve.

C. Johnson's Medea.

And her brow clear'd, but not her troubled eye;
The wind was down but still the sea ran high.
Loud complaint, however angrily

It shakes its phrase, is little to be feared,
And less distrusted.

Oh! Anger is an evil thing,

And spoils the fairest face,-
It cometh like a rainy cloud
Upon a sunny place.

One angry moment often does
What we repent for years;

It works the wrong we ne'er make right
By sorrow or by tears.

ANGLING.

Byron, D. J.

Byron, Doge V.

Eliza Cook.

Sh. M. Ado. III. 1.

The pleasant'st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
Give me mine angle; we'll to the river there,
My music playing far off, I will betray
Tawny-finned fish; my bended hooks shall pierce
Their slimy jaws.

ANTECEDENTS,

Sh. Ant. & Cleop. 111. 5.

Men so noble,

However faulty, yet should find respect
For what they have been; 't is a cruelty
To load a falling man.

Sh. H. VIII. v. 2.

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ANTICIPATION.

ANTICIPATION-ANXIETY.

Why should we
Anticipate our sorrows? 't is like those
Who die for fear of death.

Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite
To cast the fashion of uncertain evils;

For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown,
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
To swallow gudgeons ere they're catched,
And count their chickens ere they're hatched.

ANTIPATHY.

Some men there are love not a gaping pig;
Some that are mad if they behold a cat.
Masterless passion sways it to the mood
Of what it likes or loathes.

Ask you what provocation I have had?
The strong antipathy of good to bad.
ANTIQUARY-ANTIQUITY.

They say he sits

All day in contemplation of a statue

Denham.

Milton, Com.

Butler Hud. III. 1.

With ne'er a nose; and dotes on the decay,

Sh. M. Ven. IV. 1.

With greater love than the self-loved Narcissus

Did on his beauty.

What toil did honest Curio take,

What strict inquiries did he make,
To get one medal wanting yet,

And perfect all the Roman set!

Pope.

Shak. Marmion, Antiq.

'T is found! and oh! his happy lot!

"T is bought, locked up, and lies forgot!

Prior, Alma, c. 2.

How his eyes languish! how his thoughts adore
That painted coat, which Joseph never wore!
He shews, on holidays, a sacred pin,

That touch'd the ruff, that touch'd queen Bess's chin.

Young, Love of F. Iv. 120,

Rare are the buttons of a Roman's breeches,
In antiquarian eyes surpassing riches :
Rare is each crack'd, black, rotten, earthen dish,
That held of ancient Rome the flesh and fish.

ANXIETY.

But human bodies are sic fools,

Peter Pindar.

For a' their colleges and schools,

That, when nae real ills perplex them,

They make enow themsels to vex them.

Burns.

APATHY.

APATHY APPEARANCES.

A man, whose blood

Is very snow broth; one who never feels

The wanton stings and motions of the sense :
But doth rebate and blunt his natural edge

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With profits of the mind, study and fast. Sh. M. för M. 1. 5. APPARITION.

They gather round, and wonder at the tale

Of horrid apparition, tall and ghostly,

That walks at dead of night, or takes his stand
O'er some new-open'd grave, and (strange to tell,)
Evanishes at crowing of the cock.

APOLOGY.

Forgive me, Valentine: if hearty sorrow

Be a sufficient ransom for offence,

I tender it here; I do as truly suffer
As e'er I did offend.

I know the action was extremely wrong;

I own it, I deplore it, I condemn it;
But I detest all fiction, even in song,

Blair, Grave.

Sh. Two G. v. 4.

And so must tell the truth, howe'er you blame it. APPAREL.

Byron, Don Juan.

Sh. Lear, IV. 6.

Through tatter'd clothes small vices do appear:
Robes and furr'd gowns hide all. Plate sin with gold,
And the strong lance of justice hurtless breaks;
Arm it in rags, a pigmy's straw doth pierce it.
Our purses shall be proud, our garments poor,
For 't is the mind that makes the body rich:
And as the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.
Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy:
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

APPEAL.

Sh. Tam. S. IV.3.

Sh. Ham. 1. 3.

I have done the state some service, and they know it,
No more of that; I pray you in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.

APPEARANCES.

All that glisters is not gold,
Gilded tombs do worms infold.

Sh. Oth. v. 2

Sh. Mer. V. 11. 7.

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APPEARANCES-APPETITE.

APPEARANCES-continued.

There is a fair behaviour in thee, captain;
And though that nature with a beauteous wall
Doth oft close in pollution, yet of thee
I will believe, thou hast a mind that suits
With this thy fair and outward character.
That gloomy outside, like a rusty chest,
Contains the shining treasure of a soul
Resolv'd and brave.

Sh. Tw. N. 1. 2.

Dryden, Don Sebastian.

Appearances to save, his only care;
So things seem right no matter what they are.

Your thief looks in the crowd,

Exactly like the rest, or rather better;

'Tis only at the bar, and in the dungeon,

That wise men know your felon by his features.

Byron, Werner, II. 1.

Full many a stoic eye and aspect stern
Masks hearts where grief has little left to learn ;
And many a withering thought lies hid, not lost,
In smiles that least befit, who wears them most.

Byron, Corsair.

How little do they see what is, who fame
Their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
Within the oyster's shell uncouth
The purest pearl may bide :-

Trust me, you'll find a heart of truth
Within that rough outside.

APPETITE.

Our stomachs

Will make what's homely, savoury.
Now, good digestion wait on appetite;
And health on both.

Southey.

Mrs. Osgood.

Sh. Cymb. III. 6.

Sh. Macb. III. 4.

APPETITE-ARGUMENT.

APPETITE-continued.

Why, she would hang on him,

As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.

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Sh. Ham. 1. 2.

His thirst he slakes at some pure neighbouring brook,
Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook.

APOSTASY.

Churchill, Gotham, III.

Think on th' insulting scorn, the conscious pangs,
The future miseries that await the apostate;
So shall timidity assist thy reason,

And wisdom into virtue turn thy frailty.

APPEAL.

But this lies all within the will of God,
To whom I do appeal!

APPLAUSE.

I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.

Such a noise arose

Dr. Johnson.

Sh. Hen. V. I. 2.

As the shrouds make at sea in a stiff tempest,
As loud and to as many tunes,-hats, cloaks,
Doublets, I think flew up; and had their faces

Sh. Macb. v. 3.

Been loose, this day they had been lost. Sh. Hen. VIII. VI. 1. Kings fight for empire, madmen for applause.

Applause

Waits on success; the fickle multitude,

Like the light straw that floats along the stream,
Glide with the current still, and follow fortune.

Dryden.

T. Francklin, Earl of Warwick.

Oh popular applause! what art of man

Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? Cowper, Task,

ARGUMENT.

O most lame and impotent conclusion.

He that complies against his will,

Is of his own opinion still..

He'd undertake to prove, by force
Of argument, a man's no horse.
He
prove a buzzard is no fowl,
And that a lord may be an owl,
A calf an alderman, a goose a justice,
And rooks committee-men and trustees.
Reproachful speech from either side
The want of argument supplied;
They rail'd, revil'd-as often ends
The contests of disputing friends.

[II. 481. Sh. Oth. II. 1.

Butler, III. 3, 547.

Butler, 1. 75.

Gay, Fable 16.