A GLORIOUS CHARTER-A HALTER MADE.

"A glorious charter, deny it who can,

Is breathed in the words, 'I'm an Englishman '."

ELIZA COOK.

"A glutted market makes provision cheap."

The Englishman.

POPE. The Wife of Bath, line 262.

"A God alone, can comprehend a God."

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Night IX., line 835.

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"A good book is the best of friends, the same to-day and for ever." MARTIN TUPPER. Proverbial Philosophy. Of Reading, line 14. "A good book is the precious life-blood of a master spirit, embalmed and treasured up on purpose to a life beyond life."

MILTON. Areopagitica.

"A good cause needs not to be patroned by passion, but can sustain itself upon a temperate dispute."

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SIR T. BROWNE. Religio Medici, Sec. V.

'A good friend, but bad acquaintance."

BYRON. Don Juan, Can. III., St. 54.

"A good heart is better than all the heads in the world."

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BULWER LYTTON. The Disowned, Chap. XXXIII.

A good heart's worth gold."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Hostess), Act II., Sc. IV. "A good man should and must

Sit rather down with loss, than rise unjust."

BEN JONSON. Sejanus (Sabinus), Act IV., Sc. III.

"A good man's fortune may grow out at heels."

SHAKESPEARE. King Lear (Kent), Act II., Sc. II. "A good wit will make use of anything: I will turn diseases to commodity."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Falstaff), Act I., Sc. II.,

"A grandam's name is little less in love, Than is the doting title of a mother."

last sentence.

SHAKESPEARE. Richard III. (King Richard), Act IV., Sc. IV. "A great man's overfed great man, what the Scotch call Flunkey."

CARLYLE. Essay on Johnson.

"A great poet, like a great peak, must sometimes be allowed to have his head in the clouds."

AUGUSTINE BIRRELL. Obiter Dicta, Mr. Browning's Poetry.

“A guardian-angel o'er his life presiding, Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing."

ROGERS. Human Life.

(I pray thee let me and my fellow have) A haire of the dog that bit us last night."

J. HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.

"A halter made of silk's a halter still."

COLLEY CIBBER. Love in a Riddle (Damon), Act II., Sc. I.

A HAPPY BRIDESMAID-A KNAVE AN' FOOL.

"A happy bridesmaid makes a happy bride."

"A harmless necessary cat."

TENNYSON. The Bridesmaid.

SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice (Shylock), Act IV., Sc. I.

"A heart to pity, and a hand to bless."

CHURCHILL. Prophecy of Famine, line 178. "A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute." GIBBON. Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire, Ch. XLVIII.

"A heart unspotted is not easily daunted."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. II. (Gloster), Act III., Sc. I.

"A heavy heart bears not an humble tongue."

SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour Lost (Prince), Act V., Sc. II.

"A heavy purse makes a light heart."

UNKNOWN. Wily Beguiled, 1st line.

BEN JONSON. The New Inn (Host), Act I., Sc. I.

"A hooded eagle among blinking owls."

SHELLEY. Letter to Maria Gisborne.

[Refers to Coleridge.]

"A horse! a horse! my kingdom for a horse."

SHAKESPEARE. Richard III. (King Richard), Act V., Sc. IV. "A jealous love lights his torch from the firebrands of the furies." BURKE. Speech on the plan for Economical Reform, 11th February, 1780.

"A jealous woman believes everything her passion suggests." GAY. The Beggar's Opera (Macheath), Act II., Sc. II.

"A jest's prosperity lies in the ear

Of him that hears it, never in the tongue

Of him that makes it."

SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour Lost (Rosaline), Act V., Sc. II.

"A joke's a very serious thing."

"A just cause is strong."

CHURCHILL. The Ghost, Bk. IV., line 1386.

MIDDLETON. A Trick to Catch the Old One (Lucre), Act III.,

"A kick, that scarce would move a horse, May kill a sound divine."

Sc. III.

COWPER. The Yearly Distress.

"A king of shreds and patches." SHAKESPEARE.

Hamlet (Hamlet), Act III., Sc. IV.

CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. II., Bk. VI., Ch. VII.

"A kingdom is too small

For his expense, that hath no mean at all."

ANON. The Play of Stuckley (Vernon), line 1011.

"A knave and fool are plants of every soil."

BURNS. Scots Prologue.

A KNAVISH SPEECH-A LIVING DOG.

"A knavish speech sleeps in a foolish ear."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act IV., Sc. II.

"A lady's watch needs neither figures nor wheels,
'Tis enough that 'tis loaded with baubles and seals."

PRIOR. A Lover's Anger, line 5.

"A lamentable tune is the sweetest musick to a woeful mind."

SIR P. SIDNEY. Arcadia, Bk. II.

*"A land of meanness, sophistry, and mist."

* [Scotland.]

"A legge of a larke

BYRON. The Curse of Minerva.

Is better than is the bodie of a kight."

JOHN HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Chap. IV.

'The legge of a lark is better than the body of a kite."
CHAPMAN. Eastward Hoe.

"(That) a lie which is half a truth is ever the blackest of lies,
That a lie which is all a lie may be met and fought with outright,
But a lie which is part a truth is a harder matter to fight."
TENNYSON. The Grandmother, VIII.

"A lidless watcher of the public weal."

TENNYSON. The Princess, IV.

"A light wife doth make a heavy husband."

SHAKESPEARE. Merchant of Venice (Portia), Act V., Sc. I.

"A little fire is quickly trodden out;

Which, being suffer'd, rivers cannot quench."

SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Clarence), Act IV.,

Sc. VIII.

"A little group of wise hearts is better than a wilderness of fools."

RUSKIN. Crown of Wild Olive. War, 114.

"A little learning is a dang'rous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring;
There shallow draughts intoxicate the brain,
And drinking largely sobers us again."

POPE. Essay on Criticism, II., line 215.

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“A little mind often sees the unbelief, without seeing the belief, of a large one."

O. W. HOLMES. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, V.

"A little more than kin, and less than kind."

SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. II.

"A little rule, a little sway,

A sunbeam in a winter's day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave."

DYER. Grongar Hill, line 89. ECCLESIASTES. Ch. IV., ver. 12.

"A living dog is better than a dead lion.".

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A LOVER'S EYES-A MAN MAY.

"At this rate a dead dog would indeed be better than a living lion."

BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Fitzgerald's Ed.). (Dr. Johnson), Vol. II., p. 257.

"A lover's eyes will gaze an eagle blind;"

SHAKESPEARE. Love's Labour Lost (Birom), Act IV., Sc. III.

"A maiden is a tender thing,

And best by her that bore her understood."

TENNYSON. Geraint and Enid. "A man, be the heavens ever praised, is sufficient for himself; yet were ten men united in Love, capable of being and doing what ten thousand singly would fail in."

CARLYLE. Sartor Resartus, Bk. III., Ch. XII.

"A man can die but once."

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SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Feeble), Act III., Sc. II.

A man cannot have an idea of perfection in another, which he was never sensible of in himself."

"A man is a god in ruins."

SIR R. STEELE. Tatler, No. 227.

EMERSON (quoted by) Nature, Ch. VIII., Prospects.

"A man is but what he knoweth."

BACON. In Praise of Knowledge.

"A man is never too old to learn."

MIDDLETON. Mayor of Queenborough (Simon), Act V., Sc. I.

"A man is not completely born until he be dead."

B. FRANKLIN. Letters. To Miss E. Hubbard.

"A man loves the meat in his youth that he cannot endure in his age." SHAKESPEARE. Much Ado about Nothing (Benedick), Act II., Sc. III.

"A man loveth more tenderlie
The thing that he hath bought most dere."

CHAUCER. Romaunt of the Rose, line 2737.

"Things hardly got are always highest deem'd."
JOHN COOK. The City Gallant (Gertrude).

"A man may cry Church! Church! at ev'ry word,
With no more piety than other people--
A daw's not reckoned a religious bird
Because it keeps a-cawing from a steeple."

"A man may kiss a bonny lass,

And ay be welcome back again."

HOOD. Ode to Rae-Wilson.

BURNS. Duncan Davison.

"A man may learn from his Bible to be a more thorough gentleman than if he had been brought up in all the drawing-rooms in C. KINGSLEY. The Water Babies, Ch. III.

London."

"A man may well bring a horse to the water,
But he cannot make him drinke without he will."

JOHN HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. XI.

A MAN MUST SERVE-A MOMENT OF TIME.

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Save censure--critics all are ready made.
Take hackney'd jokes from Miller, got by rote,
With just enough of learning to misquote.'

"A man of forty is either a fool or a physician."

BYRON. English Bards and Scotch Reviewers.
OLD PROVErb.

"Will you cast away your child on a fool, and physician?"
SHAKESPEARE. Merry Wives of Windsor (Mrs. Quickly),
Act III., Sc. IV.

“A man of pleasure is a man of pains.”

YOUNG. Night Thoughts, Nt. VIII., line 793.

"A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair." DR. JOHNSON. In Conversation with Sir Joshua Reynolds.

"A man without knowledge, and I have read, May well be compared to one that is dead." THOMAS INgelend.

"A manner somewhat fall'n from reverence." TENNYSON.

"A man's best things are nearest him, Lie close about his feet."

Vaudracour and Julia.

The Disobedient Child.

The Last Tournament.

LORD HOUGHTON. The Men of Old.

"A man's disposition is never well known till he be crossed."

BACON.

"A man's house is his castle."

"(For often) a man's own angry pride Is cap and bells for a fool."

Advancement of Learning, Bk. II.

SIR E. COKE. Third Institute.

TENNYSON. Maud, VI., 7.

"A man's vanity tells him what is honour, a man's conscience what is justice.'

LANDOR. Imaginary Conversations. Peter Leopold and

President Du Paty. (Leopold.)

"A mastiff dog

May love a puppy cur for no more reason

Than that the twain have been tied up together,

TENNYSON. Queen Mary (Howard), Act I., Sc. IV.

"A merry heart maketh a cheerful countenance."

PROVERBS. Ch. XV., ver. 13.

"A moment's insight is sometimes worth a life's experience."

O. W. HOLMES. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, Ch. X.

"A moment of time may make us unhappy for ever."

GAY. The Beggar's Opera (Macheath), Act II., Sc. II.