QUOTATIONS ABRA.-Abra was ready ere I call'd her name; Her absence made the night, her presence brought the day. ABSENCE.-In the hope to meet Shortly again, and make our absence sweet. BEN JONSON.-Underwoods, an Elegy. An hour or two Never breaks squares in love; he comes in time BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.-The Widow, Act II. Absence makes the heart grow fonder. HAYNES BAILEY.-Isle of Beauty; Odes to Rosa. What vigour absence adds to love. FLATMAN.-Weeping at parting, a Song. Absence in most, that quenches love, And cools the warm desire; The ardour of my heart improves, And makes the flame aspire. COTTON.-A Song, Verse 2. Friends, though absent, are still present. CICERO.-On Friendship, Chapter VII. [The mottoes or phrases, "Though lost to sight, to memory dear," and "Though absent, not forgotten,” are probably derived from the passage in Cicero; for I have not met with them in my reading, neither can I learn that they are to be found in any author.] B 2 ABSTRACTS-ACTOR. ABSTRACTS.-They are the abstracts, and brief chronicles of the time. SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. Brief abstract and record of tedious days. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 4. (Duchess to Queen Margaret.) ACCIDENTS.-Wherein I spoke of most disastrous chances; Of moving accidents by flood and field. SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (To the Senate, justifying his marriage with Desdemona.) ACES.-We gentlemen, whose chariots roll only upon the four aces, are apt to have a wheel out of order. SIR JOHN VANBRUGH.-The Provoked Husband, On the four aces doom'd to roll, CHURCHILL.-The Duellist, Book I. Line 68. ACHES.-Up start as many aches in his bones, as there are ouches in his skin. GEORGE CHAPMAN.-The Widow's Tears. ACTING.-Between the acting of a dreadful thing Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream. SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act II. Scene 1. ACTION.-Be not too tame neither, but let your own discretion be your tutor; suit the action to the word, the word to the action; with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature. SHAKSPERE.Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. Prodigious actions may as well be done DRYDEN.-Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. ACTOR-He loved his friends (forgive this gushing tear; LYTTLETON.-Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus. ACTOR-ADVERSITY. ACTOR-As in a theatre, the eyes of men, Even so, or with much more contempt, men's eyes ADAMANT.-On adamant our wrongs we all engrave, KING.-Art of Love, Line 971. ADORE.-We bear it calmly, though a ponderous woe, Led like a victim, to my death I'll go, And, dying, bless the hand that gave the blow. DRYDEN.-The Spanish Friar, Act II. Scene 1. 3 ADORN.-She came adorned hither like sweet May. SHAKSPERE.-King Richard II., Act V. Scene 1. (Speaking of his Queen.) Th' adorning thee with so much art Is but a barbarous skill; "Tis like the poisoning of a dart, Too apt before to kill. COWLEY.-The Waiting-Maid, Verse 4. ADVERSARY.-Oh that mine adversary had written a book. JOB.-Chapter xxxi. Verse 35. And do as adversaries do in law: Strive mightily, but eat and drink as friends. SHAKSPERE.-Taming of the Shrew, Act I. ADVERSITY.-A man I am, cross'd with adversity. SHAKSPERE. Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act IV. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, We bid be quiet when we hear it cry; But were we burden'd with like weight of pain, As much, or more, we should ourselves complain. SHAKSPERE.-Comedy of Errors, Act II. Scene 1. (Adriana to Luciana.) 4 ADVERSITY-AFFLICTION. ADVERSITY.-Sweet are the uses of adversity; SHAKSPERE-As You Like It, Act II. Scene 1. Love is maintain'd by wealth; when all is spent, HERRICK.-Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 144. AFFECTATION.-There affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen. POPE.-Rape of the Lock, Canto IV. Line 31. On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Die of a rose in aromatic pain POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle I. Line 200. AFFLICTION.-Had it pleased heaven Given to captivity me and my utmost hopes; SHAKSPERE.-Othello, Act IV. Scene 2. When Providence, for secret ends, POMFRET.-To his Friend under affliction. Heaven is not always angry when he strikes, Are afflictions aught But mercies in disguise? th' alternate cup, By love's own hand for salutary ends. MALLET.-Amyntor and Theodora, Canto III. AFFLICTION-AGE. AFFLICTION.- "Tis a physic That's bitter to sweet end. 5 SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act IV. AFFRONT.-Am I to set my life upon a throw, COWPER, Conversation, Line 191. AFTER.-After me the deluge. Après moi le deluge. MADAME DE POMPADOUR.-3 Notes and Queries, 397. When I am dead, may earth be mingled with fire. Aye, said From a Greek Tragedian. See Riley's Dict., After the war, aid.-GREEK Proverb. After death, the doctor.-ENGLISH PROVERB. RILEY.-Supra, 540. Geo. Herbert, Jacula Prudentum. AGE.-Age and want sit smiling at the gate. POPE.-Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epistle III., Slow-consuming age. GRAY.-Ode on Eton College, Verse 9. Borne on the swift, tho' silent, wings of time, BEATTIE.-The Minstrel, Verse 25, Line 8. Age cannot wither her, nor custom stale Her infinite variety. SHAKSPERE.-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act II. Your date is better in your pie And your porridge, than in your cheek. SHAKSPERE.-All's Well that ends Well, Act I. Some smack of age in you, some relish of the saltness of time. |