ADVERTISEMENT.

THE Compiler appears again before the Public,

and hopes that a more extended course of reading

has enabled him to set before them a book of

considerable utility, combined with some amuse

ment.

LIVERPOOL, February 14, 1863.

QUOTATIONS

ABRA.--Abra was ready ere I callid her name;
And, though I call’d another, Abra came,
Her absence made the night, her presence brought the day.

PRIOR.–Solomon, Book II. Lines 363, 592.
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
That comes at all; absence is all love's crime.

BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER.—The Widow, Act II.

Scene 2.
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.

Corron.- 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.]

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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 JOAN VANBRUGH.-The Provoked Husband,

Act II., by CIBBER. 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 onches in his skin.

GEORGE CHAPMAN.-The Widow's Tears.

ACTING.-Between the acting of a dreadful thing
And the first motion, all the interim is
Like a phantasma, or a hideous dream.

SHAKSPERE.-Julius Cæsar, Act II, Scene 1.
(Brutus, after Cassius had moved him against

Cæsar.)
ACTION.-Be not too tame neither, but let your own discre-

tion 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.

(His directions to the players.) Prodigious actions may as well be done By weaver's issue, as by prince's son.

DRYDEN.- Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I.

Line 638.

ACTOR-He loved his friends (forgive this gushing tear;
Alas! I feel, I am no actor here.)

LYTTLETON.-Prologue to Thomson's Coriolanus.