Lover.

The LOVER, all as frantic,
Sees Helen's beauty in a brow of Egypt:

The poet's eye, in a fine frenzy rolling,

Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth

The forms of things unknown, the poet's pen

Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing

A local habitation and a name.

SHAKESPERE, Mid. Night's Dream.

Lovers.-Ye Gods! annihilate but space and time,
And make two LOVERS happy.

POPE, Art of Sinking in Poetry.

Lover's eyes.-A LOVER'S EYES will gaze an eagle blind.

SHAKESPERE, Love's Labour's Lost.

Lover's hours.-LOVERS' HOURS are long, though seeming short.
Ibid., Venus and Adonis.

Lowly.—

Verily

I swear, 'tis better to be LOWLY born

And range with humble livers in content,
Than to be perk'd up in a glist'ring grief,

And wear a golden sorrow.-Ibid., Henry VIII.

Lustre. I ne'er could any LUSTRE see

In eyes that would not look on me;

I ne'er saw nectar on a lip

But where my own did hope to sip.-SHERIDAN, The Duenna. Luxury. It was a LUXURY-to be !-COLERIDGE, Retirement.

For all their LUXURY was doing good.-S. GARTH, Claremont.

He tried the LUXURY of doing good.-CRABBE, Hall Tales.

O LUXURY! thou curst by heaven's decree.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

Lyre.

Who ran

Through each mode of the LYRE, and was master of all.

MOORE, On the Death of Sheridan.

M.

Mab. The name given by the English poets of the 15th and succeeding centuries to the imaginary queen of the fairies. Shakespere has given a famous description of Queen MAB in Romeo and Juliet, act i. sc. 4. The origin of the name is obscure. By some it is derived from the Midgard of the Eddas.

O, then, I see, Queen MAB hath been with you.
She is the fairies' midwife; and she comes
In shape no bigger than an agate-stone
On the fore-finger of an alderman,
Drawn with a team of little atomies
Over men's noses as they lie asleep.

SHAKESPERE, Romeo and Juliet.

MAB, the mistress fairy,
That doth nightly rob the dairy,
And can hurt or help the churning
As she please, without discerning;
She that pinches country wenches
If they rub not clean their benches,
But if so they chance to feast her,

In a shoe she drops a tester.-BEN JONSON.

If ye will with MAB find grace,

Set each platter in its place;

Rake the fire up and get

Water in ere sun be set;

Sweep your house; who doth not so,

Mab will pinch her by the toe. -HERRICK.

The name Martha, as used in Ireland, is only an equivalent for the native Erse Meabhdh, Meave or MAB, once a great Irish princess, who has since become the queen of the fairies: Martha, for Queen Mab!-YONGE.

Made.—I am fearfully and wonderfully MADE.—Psalm cxxxix. 14

Madness.-Moody MADNESS laughing wild,

Amid severest woe.-GRAY, Eton College.

Madness.-Though this be MADNESS, yet there's method in it. SHAKESPERE, Hamlet.

Maga. A popular sobriquet of Blackwood's Magazine, the contributors to which have embraced many of the most eminent writers of Great Britain, including Wordsworth, Coleridge, Lamb, De Quincey, Landor, and others. The name is a contraction of the word Magazine.

On other occasions he was similarly honoured, and was invariably mentioned with praise by Wilson, the presiding genius of MAGA. — DR. SHELTON MCKENZIE.

Mahomet." If the hill will not come to MAHOMET, Mahomet will go to the hill."-LORD BACON.

Maid.-MAID of Athens, ere we part,

Give, oh, give me back my heart!-BYRON, Maid of Athens.

Maiden. A simple MAIDEN in her flower

Is worth a hundred coats-of-arms.-TENNYSON, Lady Clara.

I'll warrant she'll prove an excuse for the glass.

SHERIDAN, School for Scandal.

BYRON, Childe Harold.

MAIDENS, like moths, are ever caught by glare,
And Mammon wins his way where Seraphs might despair.

Maids.-MAIDS are May when they are maids;
But the sky changes when they are wives.

SHAKESPERE, As You Like It.

Main.-Plac'd far amid the melancholy MAIN.

THOMSON, Castle of Indolenee.

Main Chance.-Say wisely, Have a care o' th' MAIN CHANCE,
And look before you ere you leap;

For as you sow, y' are like to reap.-BUTLER, Hudibras.

Be careful still of the MAIN CHANCE.-DRYDEN, Persius.

Malaprop, Mrs.-A character in Sheridan's comedy of The Rivals; -noted for her blunders in the use of words. The name is obviously derived from the French mal à propos, unapt, ill-timed.

Malaprop, Mrs.-The conclusion drawn was, that Childe Harold, Byron, and the Count in Beppo, are one and the same person, thereby making me turn out to be, as MRS. MALAPROP says, like Cerberus, three gentlemen at once."-BYRON.

MRS. MALAPROP's mistakes in what she herself calls "orthodoxy" have been often objected to as improbable from a woman in her rank of life; but though some of them, it must be owned, are extravagant and farcical, they are almost all amusing; and the luckiness of her simile, "as headstrong as an allegory on the banks of the Nile," will be acknowledged as long as there are writers to be run away with by the wilfulness of this truly "headstrong" species of composition. -MOORE.

Mammon. MAMMON, the least erected spirit that fell

From heaven; for e'en in heaven his looks and thoughts
Were always downward bent, admiring more

The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold,
Than aught divine or holy else enjoy'd

In vision beatific.-MILTON, Paradise Lost.

Man. A brave MAN struggling in the storms of fate,
And greatly falling with a falling state.

While Cato gives his little senate laws,

What bosom beats not in his country's cause?

POPE, Prologue to Addison's Cato.

A MAN after his own heart.-1 Samuel xiii. 14.

A MAN he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

GOLDSMITH, Deserted Village.

A MAN of my kidney.-SHAKESPERE, Merry Wives.

A MAN so various, that he seem'd to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was everything by starts, and nothing long,
But in the course of one revolving moon,
Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon.

DRYDEN, Absalom.

And all may do what has by MAN been done.

YOUNG, Night Thoughts.

And what have kings that privates have not too?
The king is but a MAN as I am.-SHAKESPERE, Henry V.

Man. A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch,
A living dead MAN.—SHAKESPERE, Comedy of Errors.

A nice MAN is a man of nasty ideas.-SWIFT, Thoughts.

A noticeable MAN with large grey eyes.

WORDSWORTH, Stanzas written on Thomson.

An honest MAN, close button'd to the chin,
Broadcloth without, and a warm heart within.

A prince can make a belted knight,
A marquis, duke, and a' that;
But an honest MAN's aboon his might,
Guid faith, he maunna fa' that.

COWPER, Epistle to Hill.

BURNS, A Man's a Man for a' that.

A wit's a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest MAN's the noblest work of God.

POPE, Essay on Man.

From scenes like these old Scotia's grandeur springs,
That makes her loved at home, revered abroad:
Princes and lords are but the breath of kings,
"An honest MAN's the noblest work of God."

BURNS, Cotter's Saturday Night.

Make yourself an honest MAN, and then you may be sure that there is one rascal less in the world.-CARLYLE.

A sadder and a wiser MAN,

He rose the morrow morn.-COLERIDGE, Ancient Mariner.

Awake, my St. John! leave all meaner things
To low ambition, and the pride of kings.
Let us (since life can little more supply
Than just to look about us, and to die)
Expatiate free o'er all this scene of MAN;
A mighty maze! but not without a plan.

POPE, Essay on Man.

But MAN, proud man,

Drest 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.-SHAKESPERE, Measure for Measure.

Give me that MAN,

That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him
In my heart's core, aye, in my heart of hearts,
Something too much of this.-Ibid.,

As I do thee.

Hamlet.