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ANGELS.-Angels and ministers of grace, defend us!
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4.
(The Ghost scene.)

ANGER.-Why, look you, how you storm!
I would be friends with you, and have your love.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Shylock to Antonio.)

In a troubled sea of passion toss'd.

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book X. Line 718.

Anger is like

A full-hot horse; who, being allow'd his way,
Self-mettle tires him.

SHAKSPERE.-King Henry VIII., Act I. Scene 1. (Norfolk to Buckingham.)

Made good guard for itself.

Never anger

SHAKSPERE.-Anthony and Cleopatra, Act IV.
Scene 1. (Mecenas to Cæsar.)

You shall see-I'll sweeten her, and she'll cool like a dish

of tea.

COLLEY CIBBER.-The Careless Husband, Act IV.
Scene 1.

And to be wroth with one we love

Doth work like madness in the brain.

COLERIDGE.-Christabel, Part II.

ANGUISH.-One pain is lessen'd by another's anguish;
One desperate grief cures with another's languish.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2.
(Benvolio to Romeo.)

ANNALS.-The short and simple annals of the poor.
GRAY.-Elegy, Verse 8.

ANNIHILATE.-Ye gods, annihilate but space and time,
And make two lovers happy.

POPE.-Martin Scriblerus, Chapter XI.

ANTICIPATION.-Well, Sir Anthony, since you desire it, we will not anticipate the past; so mind, young people, our retrospection will now be all to the future.

SHERIDAN. The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.

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APOTHECARY-APPENDIX.

APOTHECARY.-I do remember an apothecary,
And hereabouts he dwells.

SHAKSPERE.-Romeo and Juliet, Act V. Scene 1.
(To himself.)

APPAREL.-Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not express'd in fancy; rich, not gaudy;
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3.
(Polonius to Laertes.)

Oft covers a good man.

A civil habit

BEAUMONT and FLETCHER.-Beggar's Bush,
Act II. Scene 3.

A loyal bosom in a garb uncouth.

PYE.-Alfred, Book II. Line 558.

As the sun breaks through the darkest clouds,
So honour peereth in the meanest habit.

SHAKSPERE.-Taming of the Shrew, Act IV.
Scene 3. (Petruchio to Catherine.)

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.

SHAKSPERE.-King Lear, Act IV. Scene 6.
(Lear to Gloster.)

Marry, come up, sir, with your gentle blood!
Here's a red stream beneath this coarse blue doublet,
That warms the heart as kindly as if drawn

From the far source of old Assyrian kings.

SCOTT.-Fortunes of Nigel, Chapter XXXI.

Opinion's but a fool, that makes us scan

The outward habit by the inward man.

SHAKSPERE.-Pericles, Act II. Scene 2.
(Simonides to the Lords.)

APPEAL. I appeal unto Cæsar.

ST. PAUL, answering for himself before Festus.
Acts of the Apostles, Chapter XXV. Verse 11.

APPENDIX.-A small appendix of mine.
FOOTE.-The Lame Lover, Act III.

APPETITE.-Here's neither want of appetite nor mouths; Pray Heaven we be not scant of meat or mirth.

SCOTT.-Peveril of the Peak, Chapter III.

Why, at this rate, a fellow that has but a groat in his pocket, may have a stomach capable of a ten-shilling ordinary. CONGREVE.-Love for Love, Act II. Scene 7.

A stomach as sharp as a shark's; never was in finer condition for feeding.

FOOTE.-The Patron, Act 1.

Doth not the appetite alter? A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age.

SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado about Nothing, Act II.
Scene 3. (Benedick.)

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

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.
(Macbeth to the Doctor.)

APPLAUSE.-The applause of a single human being is of great consequence.

BOSWELL'S Johnson, 1780.

APPLES.-While tumbling down the turbid stream,
Lord love us! how we apples swim.

MALLET.-Tyburn.

APPLIANCES.-With all appliances and means to boot. SHAKSPERE.-King Henry IV. Part II. Act III. Seene I. (The King's Soliloquy to Sleep.)

APPROBATION.-Approbation from Sir Herbert Stanley, is praise indeed.

MORTON.-Cure for the Heart Ache, Act V.
Scene 2.

APPROVING.-One self-approving hour whole years out

weighs.

POPE.-Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 255.

ARGUE-In arguing, too, the parson own'd his skill,
For, e'en though vanquish'd, he could argue still.
GOLDSMITH.-Deserted Village, Line 211.

ARM'D.-Arm'd at all points, exactly, cap-à-pé.
SHAKSPERE. Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.
(Horatio to Hamlet.)

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ARROW-ASSURANCE.

ARROW. I have shot mine arrow o'er the house,

And hurt my brother.

SHAKSPERE.

Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2.

(Hamlet to Laertes.)

ARROWS.-When bows were bent, and darts were thrawn;

For thrang scarce could they flee;

The darts clove arrows as they met,

The arrows dart the tree.

SIR JOHN BRUCE.-Hardyknute, 2 Percy
Reliques, 109.

In my school-days, when I had lost one shaft,
I shot his fellow of the self-same flight,

The self-same way, with more advised watch
To find the other; and, by adventuring both,
I oft found both.

SHAKSPERE.-Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 1.
(Bassanio to Antonio.)

ART. To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

GOLDSMITH.-Deserted Village, Line 253.

And, even while Fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy?
GOLDSMITH.-Ibid., Line 263.

ASHES.-E'en from the tomb the voice of Nature cries,

E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

GRAY.-Elegy, Verse 23.
Reeve's Prol., Line 3380.

Our best remains are ashes and a shade.

CHAUCER.-The

FRANCIS.-Horace, Book IV. Ode 7.

ASS.-O, that he were here, to write me down, an ass!
O, that I had been writ down, an ass!

SHAKSPERE.-Much Ado About Nothing, Act IV.
Scene 2. (Dogberry.)

ASSEMBLY.-Is our whole dissembly appeared?
SHAKSPERE.-Ibid.

ASSURANCE.-I'll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1.
(Macbeth and the Apparition.)

ATTICUS.-Who but must laugh, if such a man there be? Who would not weep, if Atticus were he?

POFE.-Prol. to Sat., Line 213.

AUDIENCE.-Let me have audience for a word or two. SHAKSPERE.-As You Like It, Act V. Scene 4. (Jacques to De Bois.)

AULD LANG SYNE.-Should auld acquaintance be forgot, And never brought to min'?

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,

And days o' lang syne?

BURNS-Auld Lang Syne, Verse 1.

AUSTERITY.-Here's a starch'd piece of austerity!

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.-The Wild Goose
Chase, Act I. Scene 3.

AUTHOR.-1. Madam, a man in marvellous foul linen, bedaggled all over, and who, so please you, looks very much like a poet, wants to speak with you.

2. Shew him up; don't stir, gentlemen, 'tis but an author. LE SAGE.-Gil Blas, Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 11.

AUTHORITY.—

Man, proud man!

Dress'd in a little brief authority;

Most ignorant of what he's most assur'd,
His glassy essence-like an angry ape

Plays such fantastic tricks before high heaven,

As make the angels weep.

SHAKSPERE.-Measure for Measure, Act II.
Scene 2. (Isabella to Angelo.)

AUTUMN.-All-cheering plenty, with her flowing horn,
Led yellow Autumn, wreath'd with nodding corn.
BURNS.-Brigs of Ayr.

Crown'd with the sickle and the wheaten sheaf,
While Autumn, nodding o'er the yellow plain,
Comes jovial on.

THOMSON.-Autumn, Line 1.

AVOIDED.-Of all men else I have avoided thee:

But get thee back.

SHAKSPERE.-Macbeth, Act V. Scene 7.
(Macbeth to Macduff.)

AWAKE.-Awake, arise, or be for ever fallen!

MILTON.-Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 330.

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