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AGE.-I have seen more days than you.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 1.
(Anthony to Octavius.)

Come forth, old man,-thy daughter's side
Is now the fitting place for thee:
When time has quell'd the oak's bold pride,
The youthful tendril yet may hide
The ruins of the parent tree.

SCOTT.-Woodstock, Chap. II.

Down his neck his reverend lockes
In comelye curles did wave;
And on his aged temples grewe
The blossomes of the grave.

OLD BALLAD.-2 Percy Reliques, 171.

Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;

Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg

That you'll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act II. Scene 4.
(The King to his daughter Regan.)

You see me here,-a poor old man,

As full of grief as age; wretched in both!

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (The same.)

He is older than Saturn.

LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 11.

An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest innocence away;
Whose peaceful Day benevolence endears,
Whose Night congratulating conscience cheers;
The general favourite as the general friend:
Such age there is, and who shall wish its end?

DR. JOHNSON. -Vanity of Human Wishes,
Line 293.

O, sir! I must not tell my age.

They say women and music should never be dated.

GOLDSMITH.-She Stoops to Conquer, Act III.

My age is as a lusty winter,

Frosty but kindly.

SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act II. Scene 3. (Adam to Orlando.)

Just at the age 'twixt boy and youth,

When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

SCOTT.-Marmion, Introduction to 2nd Canto.

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AGE.-Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entail'd upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

SHAKERLY MARMION.-The Antiquary, Act II.
Scene 1.

We see time's furrows on another's brow,
How few themselves, in that just mirror, see!
YOUNG.-Night V. Lines 627, 629.

Press'd with the weight of more than fourscore years.
LILLO. The Christian Hero, Act II.

To the old, long life and treasure;

To the young, all health and pleasure.

BEN JONSON.-A Song in the Gipsies Metamorphosed.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

Crabbed

age

SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act III.
Scene 5. (Dogberry.)

and youth, cannot live together.

SHAKSPERE.—The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza 10.

AGREE.-In every age and clime we see,
Two of a trade can ne'er agree.

GAY.-Fable XXI. Line 43.

ALE. A quart of ale is a dish for a king.

SHAKSPERE.-Winter's Tale, Act IV. Scene 2.
(Song by Autolycus.)

Hot was the play; 'twas language, wit, and tale;
Like them that find meat, drink, and cloth in ale.

DRYDEN.-Prologue to the Conquest of Granada,
Part I.

Hath thy ale virtue, or thy beer strength, that the tongue of man may be tickled, and his palate pleased in the morning? BEN JONSON.-Bartholomew Fair, Act II. Scene 1.

ALL.-All the world's a stage,

And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances;
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.

SHAKSPERE.-As you Like It, Act II. Scene 7.
(Jaques.)

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ALL.-All men act the player's part.
PETRONIUS ARBITER.

Who can direct, when all pretend to know?

GOLDSMITH.-The Traveller, Line 64.

Yet, while my Hector still survives, I see
My father, mother, brethren, all, in thee.

POPE. The Iliad, Book VI. Line 544.

All eye, all ear.

YOUNG.-Night III. Line 452; Night V. Line 889.

All is not well.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.
(To Himself.)

All's well that ends well, yet.

SHAKSPERE. All's Well that Ends Well, Act V
Scene 1. (Helena to the Widow.)

All men think all men mortal, but themselves.
DR. YOUNG.-Night I. Line 424.

Ay, when the special thing is well obtain'd,

That is, her love; for that is all in all.

SHAKSPERE.-Taming of the Shrew, Act II.
Scene 1. (Baptista to Petruchio.)

All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee;

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good;

And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,

One truth is clear, WHATEVER IS, 18 RIGHT.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle L. Line 289. See title "RIGHT."

ALLIGATOR.-Oh, there's nothing to be hoped for from her! she's as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile.

SHERIDAN. The Rivals, Act III. Scene 3.

ALLUSIONS-Nay, no delusions to the past-Lydia is convinced; speak, child.

SHERIDAN.-The Rivals, Act V. Scene 3.

ALMIGHTY.-These, as they change, Almighty Father, these Are but the varied God! The rolling year

Is full of thee.

THOMSON.-A Hymn, Line 1.

ALONE-AMBITION.

ALONE.-What is the worst of woes that wait on age?
What stamps the wrinkle deeper on the brow?
To view each loved one blotted from life's page,
And be alone on earth, as I am now.

BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto II. Stanza 98.

When musing on companions gone,
We doubly feel ourselves alone.

SCOTT.-Marmion, Introduction to Canto II.

She lived all alone, in a house by herself.

LONGFELLOW.--Hyperion, Book I. Canto II.

Nobody with me at sea but myself.

GOLDSMITH.-The Haunch of Venison, Line 60.

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The time never lies heavy upon him; it is impossible for him to be alone.

ADDISON.-Spectator, No. XCIII.
"Leisure."

AMBITION.-Ambition this shall tempt to rise,
Then whirl the wretch from high,

To bitter Scorn a sacrifice,

And grinning infamy.

See title

GRAY.-Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 8.

They that stand high, have many blasts to shake them;
And if they fall, they dash themselves to pieces.

SHAKSPERE.-King Richard III., Act I. Scene 3.
(Queen Margaret to Gloster.)

The highest and most lofty trees have the most reason to dread the thunder.

ROLLIN.-Ancient History, Book VI. Chap. 2.

I have no spur

To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7.

When that the poor have cried, Cæsar hath wept :
Ambition should be made of sterner stuff.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 2.
(Anthony to the Citizens.)

Fling away ambition;

By that sin fell the angels.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII., Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey to Cromwell.)

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AMBITION.—A hop and skip shall raise the son of a cobbler, well underlaid with pieces, to the government of a prince, till overmuch ambitious cutting wears him to his last. NABBES.-Microcosmus, Act II.

From servants hasting to be gods.

POLLOK.-The Course of Time, Book II.

AMEN.-Amen! responded my uncle Toby, laying his hand upon his heart.

AMONG.

STERNE-Tristram Shandy, Vol. IX. Chap. 6.

I stood

Among them, but not of them.

BYRON.-Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 113. ANGEL.-" In a fortnight or three weeks," added my uncle Toby, smiling, "he might march." "He will never march, an' please your honour, in this world," said the corporal. "He will march," said my uncle Toby, rising up from the side of the bed, with one shoe off. "An' please your honour," said the corporal, he will never march but to his grave." "He shall march," cried my uncle Toby, marching the foot which had a shoe on, though without advancing an inch; "he shall march to his regiment." "He cannot stand it," said the corporal. "He shall be supported," said my uncle Toby. "He'll drop at last," said the corporal, "and what will become of his boy?" "He shall not drop," said my uncle Toby, firmly. "A-well-a-day! do what we can for him," said Trim, maintaining his point, "the poor soul will die." "He shall not die, by G-1" cried my uncle Toby. The Accusing Spirit, which flew up to Heaven's chancery with the oath, blushed as he gave it in; and the Recording Angel, as he wrote it down, dropped a tear upon the word, and blotted it out for ever.

STERNE. Tristram Shandy, Vol. VI, Chap. VIII

But sad as angels for the good man's sin,

Weep to record, and blush to give it in.

CAMPBELL.-Pleasures of Hope, Part II.

And thus, like to an angel o'er the dying

Who die in righteousness, she lean'd.

BYRON.-Don Juan, Canto II. Stanza 144.

O, the more angel she,

And you the blacker devil!

SHAKSPERE.--Othello, Act V. Scene 2.
(Emilia to Othello.)

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