ARGUMENT-continued. Be calm in arguing: for fierceness makes Error a fault, and truth discourtesy. Like doctors thus, when much dispute has past, Herbert. We find our tenets just the same at last. Pope, Mor. E. 111. 15. Who shall decide when doctors disagree, And soundest cusuists doubt, like you and me. Pope, Mor. E. 1. 1. In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, Goldsmith. Des. Vil. 211. Pope, E. M. 1. 135. 'Tis from high life high characters are drawn ; A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn. ARMY-see Soldiers. War. Warrior. We are but warriors for the working-day: Sh. H. v. IV. 3. Sh. K. John, II. 1. A braver choice of dauntless spirits, ART-ARTIST. In framing artist, art hath thus decreed, Sh. Ric. III. v. 3. Sh. Per. II. 3 His pencil was striking, resistless, and grand; His pencil our faces-his manners our heart. Butler, Goldsmith, Retaliation on Sir Joshua Reynolds. ART-continued. ART-ASTONISHMENT. For though I must confess an artist can 27 Lady Alimony, a Com. 1659. A man of sense can artifice disdain, I find the fool when I behold the screen, Young, Love of F. Dryden. In hope to merit heaven, by making earth a hell. Byron, C.H. ASPIRATION. 'Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait; ASSURANCE. I'll make assurance double sure, ASTONISHMENT-see Amazement. Surprise. Fear. [1. 20. Sh. Troil. IV. 5. Sh. Macb. IV. 1. Sh. Jul. C. 1. 3. Why stand you thus amaz'd? methinks your eyes Prepare to hear Swetnam, Woman Hater. A story that shall turn thee into stone; Could there be hewn a monstrous gap in nature, A flaw made through the centre by some god, Through which the groans of ghosts might strike thy ear, They would not wound thee, as this story will. Astonish'd at his voice he stood amazed, And all around with inward horror gazed. Lee, Edip. Addison. 28 ASTONISHMENT-ATHENS. ASTONISHMENT-continued. -Hear it not, ye stars! And thou, pale moon! turn paler at the sound. With wild surprise, As if to marble struck, devoid of sense, These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights, Young, N. T. III. Thomson, Summer, Have no more profit of their shining nights, Than those that walk, and wot not what they are. ASTRONOMY. Devotion! daughter of astronomy! An undevout astronomer is mad. ATHEISM. Sh. Love's L. L. Young, N. T. IX. Dryden, Cleomenes. Virtue in distress, and vice in triumph, Make Atheists of mankind. Atheist, use thine eyes, Creech. Young, N.T. v. 177. And having viewed the order of the skies, Drops his blue-fringed lids, and holds them close, Cries out, "Where is it?" Coleridge, Fears in Solitude. 66 There is no God," the foolish saith But none, "there is no sorrow:" And Nature oft the cry of Faith In bitter need will borrow. Eyes which the preacher could not school, By way-side graves are raised; And lips say "God be pitiful,' That ne'er said "God be praised." ATHENS. Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Mrs. Browning. Where are thy men of might? thy grand in soul? Gone-glimmering through the dream of things that were, First in the race that led to glory's goal, They won, and pass'd away. Byron, Ch. H. 11. 2. ATTENTION. ATTENTION-AUTHORITY. My soul is wrapp'd in dreadful expectation, As I listen'd to thee, The happy hours pass'd by us unperceived; So was my soul fix'd to the soft enchantment. AUCTIONEER. And much more honest, to be hired, and stand He took my father grossly, full of bread, I can make my audit up, that all From me do back receive the flour of all, AUTHENTICITY. Nor does it follow, 'cause a herald Can make a gentleman scarce a year old, Of ancient kings in a small space, Man, proud man, Drest in a little brief authority, Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd, 29 Denham. Rowe. Dryden. Sh. Ham. III. 3. Sh. Coriol, 1. 1. Butler, II. 3. 679. Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven Sh. M. for M. 11. 2. Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar? And the creature run from the cur? There thou might'st behold the great image of authority: a dog's obeyed in office. A man in authority is but as A candle in the wind, sooner wasted Not from grey hairs authority doth flow, Sh. Lear, iv. 6. Beau. & F. Four P. Nor from bald heads, nor from a wrinkled brow; Denham. 30 AUTHORITY-AUTHORS. AUTHORITY-continued. Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; Butler, Misc. Th. How many great ones may remember'd be, Spenser, Ruins of Time. Let authors write for glory or reward, Much thou hast said, which I know when No author ever spared a brother; Bp.Corbet. Butler, Hudibras. Gay, Fable 10. Authors are judg'd by strange capricious rules, Pope. Pope, Apol. 27. For fools are only laughed at-wits are hated. Young Young, Ep. to Pope, c. 1. |