Where comely grace and constant virtue dwell, PRIOR. Carmen Seculare. To the King, XXXII. "All my ambition is, I own, To profit and to please, unknown." N. COTTON. Visions in Verse, Epistle to the Reader. "All Nature is but Art, unknown to thee; All chance, direction, which thou can'st not see; And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 289. "All Nature's diff'rence keeps all Nature's peace." POPE. Essay on Man. Ep. IV., line 51. "All paines are nothing in respect of this; All sorrowes short that gain eternall blisse." "All places that the eye of heaven visits SHAKESPEARE. Richard II. (Gaunt), Act I., Sc. III. "All praise is foreign, but of true desert, Plays round the head, but comes not to the heart." "All's not offence that indiscretion finds, And dotage terms so." MASON. Musaus. R. BROWNING. Pippa Passes. SHAKESPEARE. King Lear (Goneril), Act II., Sc. IV. All spirits are enslaved which serve things evil.” SHELLEY. Prometheus Unbound (Demogorgon), Act II., Sc. IV. "All subsists by elemental strife; And passions are the elements of lite." "All that's bright must fade, POPE. Essay on Man, Ep. I., line 169. The brightest still the fleetest; All that's sweet was made But to be lost when sweetest !" T. MOORE. All that's bright must fade. E. A. POE. A Dream within a Dream. "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full." "All the windy ways of men Are but dust that rises up, ECCLESIASTES. Chap. I., ver. 7. TENNYSON. The Vision of Sin. "All their luxury was doing good." GARTH. Claremont, line 149. 21 "The luxury of doing good." "All thing which that shineth as the gold Ne is no gold." CHAUCER. Canterbury Tales, line 16430, "It is not alle golde that glareth." "Alle is not golde that shewyth goldishe hewe." line 272. LYDGATE. Chorle and Byrde. "All is not gold that glisters." JOHN HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X. "Not every thing that gives A gleame and glittering showe, Is to be counted gold, indeede This prouerbe well you knowe." TURBERVILLE. The Aunswere of a Woman to nir "All that glisters is not gold- Often have you heard that told: Louer. But my outside to behold: Fare you well: your suit is cold." SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice, Act II., Sc. VII. (Inscription in golden casket.) "All is not gold that glisters." BEN JONSON. A Tale of a Tub, Act II., Sc. I. All things are artificial; for Nature is the Art of God." SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Sec. XVI. All things are less dreadful than they seem." WORDSWORTH. Ecclesiastical Sonnets, Pt. I., VII. 22 ALL THINGS THAT ARE-AMBITION CAN CREEP. "All things that are, Are with more spirit chased than enjoy'd." "The thing possess'd is not the thing it seems." "(In men this blunder still you înd), HANNAH MORE. The Bas Bleu. All think their little set mankind." "All thoughts, all passions, all delights, Whatever stirs this mortal frame, All are but ministers of Love, And feed his sacred flame." COLERIDGE. Love. '(The good old times ')—all times when old are good." BYRON. The Age of Bronze, I. "All ways to Death, but one to Glory leads." BULWER LYTTON. King Arthur, Bk. X., XXV. "All who joy would win Must share it,-Happiness was born a twin." BYRON. Don Juan, Can. II., St. 172. A good sword on an anvil; as that often And is too late repented." MASSINGER. The Great Duke of Florence (Sanaz), Act II., "Alms are but the vehicles of prayer." "Alone I did it." 66 Sc. III. DRYDEN. The Hind and the Panther, Pt. III. SHAKESPEARE. Coriolanus (Coriolanus), Act V., Sc V. Alps on Alps in clusters swelling, Mighty, and pure, and fit to make The ramparts of a Godhead's dwelling! T. MOORE. Rhymes on the Road, I. Always have an eye to the mayne, whatsoever thou art chaunced at the buy." LYLY. Euphues and his England. 'Always there is a black spot in our sunshine: it is even, as I said, the shadow of ourselves." CARLYLE. "Am I my brother's keeper?" Sartor Resartus, Bk. II., Ch. IX. GENESIS. Ch. IV., ver. 9. "(Well is it known that) ambition can creep as well as soar." BURKE. Letters on the Regicide Peace, III., 1797. AMBITION DARES-AN ACHING TOOTH. "Ambition dares not stoop." 23 BEN JONSON. Cynthia's Revels (Hedon), Act IV., Sc. I. "Ambition has its disappointments to sour us, but never the good fortune to satisfy us." B. FRANKLIN. On True Happiness. Pennsylvania Gazette, 20th Nov., 1735. "Ambition is but Avarice on stilts and masked." LANDOR. Imaginary Conversations, Lord Brooke and Sir P. Sidney. “(When some sad swain shall teach the grove,) Ambition is no cure for love!" SIR W. SCOTT. The Lay of the Last Minstrel, Can. I., XXVII. "Ambition is no sluggard." "Ambition is the growth of every clime." KEATS. Endymion. BLAKE. King Edward the Third (Dagworth). "Ambition is the only power that combats love." 66 COLLEY CIBber. Cæsar in Egypt (Photinus), Act I. Ambition, like a torrent, ne'er looks back; A high mind can put off; being both a rebel BEN JONSON. Catiline (Cicero), Act III., Sc. II. "(But wild) Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land." DRYDEN. Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. I., line 198. "Ambition makes more trusty slaves than need." BEN JONSON. Sejanus (Sejanus), Act I., Sc. I. "Ambition should be made of sterner stuff." SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cæsar (Antony), Act III., Sc. II. 66 Ambition, The soldier's virtue, rather makes choice of loss Than gain which darkens him." SHAKESPEARE. Antony and Cleopatra (Ventidius), Act III., Sc. I. "Among the honest shoulders of the crowd, Read rascal in the motions of his back, And scoundrel in the supple-sliding knee." TENNYSON. Sea Dreams. "Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own?" CHURCHILL. Epistle to Hogarth, line 1. "An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man." GOLDSMITH. On Garrick. "An aching void." "An aching tooth is better out than in, To loose a rotting member is a gain." Retaliation, line 94. R. BAXTER. Hypocrisy. 24 AN ACRE OF PERFORMANCE-AN HYPOCRITE. "An acre of performance is worth a whole land of promise." HOWELL. Familiar Letters, Bk. IV., Letter XXXIII. "An acre in Middlesex is better than a principality in Utopia." "An age that melts in unperceived decay, And glides in modest innocence away.' DR. JOHNSON. The Vanity of Human Wishes, line 294. "(Though he endeavour all he can,) An ape will never be a man." G. WITHER. Emblems. First Lotterie. Emblem XIV. "An artful woman makes a modern saint." PRIOR. Epigrams. The Modern Saint. "An ass may bray a good while before he shakes the stars down." GEORGE ELIOT. Romola (Bratt.), Bk. III., Ch. L. "An Atheist-laugh's a poor exchange For Deity offended! 46 BURNS. Epistle to a Young Friend. '(When I see a merchant over-polite to his customers, begging them to take a little brandy, and throwing his goods on the counter, thinks I, that man has) an axe to grind." B. FRANKLIN. Poor Richard's Almanac. "An Englishman, Being flattered, is a lamb; threatened, a lion." G. CHAPMAN. Alphonsus (Collen), Act I. “An Englishman does not travel to see Englishmen.” STERNE. Sentimental Journey. "An Englishman hath three qualyties, he can suffer no partner in his love, no stranger to be his equal, nor to be dared by any." LYLY. Euphues and his England. "An Eternal now does always last." COWLEY. Davideis, Bk. I., line 362. "An habitation giddy and unsure Hath he that buildeth on the vulgar heart." SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Archbishop), Act I., Sc. III. "('Tis a maxim with me, that) an hale Cobbler is a better man than a sick king." BICKERSTAFF. Love in a Village (Hawthorn), Act I., Sc. III. "An hour or two Never breaks squares in love; he comes in time That comes at all; absence is all love's crime." MIDDLETON. The Widow (Francesco), Act II., Sc. II. "An hypocrite is a gilded pill, composed of two natural ingredients, natural dishonesty, and artificial dissimulation." SIR T. OVERBURY. Characters, An Hypocrite. |