Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun. 1741 CAMPBELL: Pl. of Hope, Pt. ii., Line 21.

Even children follow'd with endearing wile, And pluck'd his gown, to share the good man's smile. 1742 GOLDSMITH: Des. Village, Line 183.

Smoke.

I knew, by the smoke that so gracefully curl'd Above the green elms, that a cottage was near. 1743 MOORE: Ballad Stanzas.

Snail.

The snail, whose tender horns being hit, Shrinks backward in his shelly cave with pain, And there, all smother'd up in shade, doth sit, Long after fearing to creep forth again. 1744 SHAKS.: Venus and A., Line 1033.

Snake.

We have scotch'd the snake, not kill'd it; She'll close, and be herself; whilst our poor malice Remains in danger of her former tooth. 1745 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Snow.

Or wallow naked in December snow By thinking on fantastic summer's heat? 1746 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act i., Sc. 3

A cheer for the snow—the drifting snow; Smoother and purer than Beauty's brow; The creature of thought scarce likes to tread On the delicate carpet so richly spread. 1747 ELIZA COOK: Snow.

Announced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the heaven. 1748 EMERSON: The Snow-Storm.

Snow-Drop.

The snow-drop, who, in habit white and plain, Comes on, the herald of fair Flora's train. 1749 CHURCHILL: Gotham, Bk. i., Line 245.

Snuff.

When they talked of their Raphaels, Correggios, and stuff, He shifted his trumpet and only took snuff. 1750 GOLDSMITH: Retaliation, Line 145.

Lady, accept the gift a hero wore In spite of all this elegiac stuff; Let not seven stanzas written by a bore Prevent your ladyship from taking snuff. 1751 BYRON: Lines to Lady Holland.

Society.

Man in society is like a flower Blown in its native bed; 't is there alone His faculties expanded in full bloom Shine out; there only reach their proper use. 1752 COWPER: Task, Bk. iv., Line 659.

Society became my glittering bride, And airy hopes my children. 1753 WORDSWORTH: Excursion, Bk. iii.

Soldier.

A soldier; Full of strange oaths, and bearded like the pard, Jealous in honor, sudden and quick in quarrel, Seeking the bubble reputation Even in the cannon's mouth. 1754 SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7.

And but for these vile guns, He would himself have been a soldier. 1755 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act i., Sc. 3.

The broken soldier, kindly bade to stay, Sat by his fire, and talk'd the night away; Wept o'er his wounds, or, tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and show'd how fields were won. 1756 GOLDSMITH: Des. Village, Line 155.

How shall we rank thee upon glory's page, Thou more than soldier, and just less than sage? 1757 MOORE: To Thomas Hume.

Solitude.

Solitude sometimes is best society, And short retirement urges sweet return. 1758 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 249.

O solitude! where are the charms That sages have seen in thy face? Better dwell in the midst of alarms, Than reign in this horrible place. 1759 COWPER: Verses supposed to be written by Alex. Selkirk, St. 1.

Man dwells apart, though not alone, He walks among his peers unread; The best of thoughts which he hath known, For lack of listeners are not said. 1760 JEAN INGELOW: Afternoon at a Parsonage, Afterthought.

It was a wild and lonely ride. Save the hid loon's mocking cry, Or marmot on the mountain side, The earth was silent as the sky. 1761 HAMLIN GARLAND: The Long Trail.

Son.

Thence to be wrench'd with an unlineal hand, No son of mine succeeding. 1762 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 1.

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone. 1763 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 165.

Song.

And heaven had wanted one immortal song. 1764 DRYDEN: Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i., Line 197.

That not in fancy's maze he wander'd long, But stoop'd to truth, and moraliz'd his song. 1765 POPE: Prologue to the Satires, Line 340.

For dear to gods and men is sacred song. Self-taught I sing; by Heaven, and Heaven alone, The genuine seeds of poesy are sown. 1766 POPE: Odyssey, Bk. xxii., Line 382.

Sonnet.

Scorn not the sonnet. Critic, you have frowned, Mindless of its just honors; with this key Shakespeare unlocked his heart. 1767 WORDSWORTH: Scorn not the Sonnet.

Sorrow.

Give sorrow words: the grief that does not speak Whispers the o'erfraught heart, and bids it break. 1768 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 3.

One sorrow never comes, but brings an heir, That may succeed as his inheritor. 1769 SHAKS.: Pericles, Act i., Sc. 4.

Nothing comes to us too soon but sorrow. 1770 BAILEY: Festus, Sc. Home.

This is truth the poet sings, That a sorrow's crown of sorrow is remembering happier things. 1771 TENNYSON: Locksley Hall, St. 38.

Soul.

But whither went his soul, let such relate Who search the secrets of the future state. 1772 DRYDEN: Palamon and Arcite, Bk. iii., Line 2120.

It is the Soul's prerogative, its fate To shape the outward to its own estate. 1773 R.H. DANA: Thoughts on the Soul.

The gods approve The depth, and not the tumult, of the soul. 1774 WORDSWORTH: Laodamia.

Sound.

'T is not enough no harshness gives offence,— The sound must seem an echo to the sense. 1775 POPE: E. on Criticism, Pt. ii., Line 162.

Spain.

Fair land! of chivalry the old domain, Land of the vine and olive, lovely Spain! 1776 MRS. HEMANS: Abencerrage, Canto ii., Line 1.

Spear.

His spear, to equal which the tallest pine Hewn on Norwegian hills to be the mast Of some great ammiral were but a wand. 1777 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 292.

Speech.

Rude am I in my speech And little bless'd with the soft phrase of peace. 1778 SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

Speech is but broken light upon the depth Of the unspoken; even your loved words Float in the larger meaning of your voice As something dimmer. 1779 GEORGE ELIOT: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. 1.

Spenser.

Nor shall my verse that elder bard forget, The gentle Spenser, fancy's pleasing son; Who, like a copious river, poured his song O'er all the mazes of enchanted ground. 1780 THOMSON: Seasons, Summer, Line 1574.

Spires.

Ye swelling hills and spacious plains! Besprent from shore to shore with steeple towers, And spires whose "silent finger points to heaven." 1781 WORDSWORTH: Excursion, Bk. vi., Line 17.

Spirits.

I can call spirits from the vasty deep. Why, so can I; or so can any man: But will they come, when you do call for them? 1782 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth Unseen, both when we wake and when we sleep. 1783 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 677.

Splendor.

Though nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. 1784 WORDSWORTH: Intimations of Immortality, St. 10.

Sport.

Thick around Thunders the sport of those, who with the gun And dog, impatient bounding at the shot, Worse than the season desolate the fields. 1785 THOMSON: Seasons, Winter, Line 788.

Spring.

In the spring a livelier iris changes on the burnish'd dove; In the spring a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of love. 1786 TENNYSON: Locksley Hall, Line 19.

Come, gentle Spring, ethereal mildness, come; And from the bosom of your dropping cloud, While music wakes around, veiled in a shower Of shadowing roses, on our plains descend. 1787 THOMSON: Seasons, Spring, Line 1.

"Come, gentle Spring! ethereal mildness, come!"— Oh! Thomson, void of rhyme as well as reason, How could'st thou thus poor human nature hum? There 's no such season. 1788 HOOD: Spring.

Stage.

All the world's a stage, And all the men and women merely players, They have their exits and their entrances; And one man in his time plays many parts, His acts being seven ages. 1789 SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 7.

Stars.

Two stars keep not their motion in one sphere. 1790 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4.

The stars of the night Will lend thee their light, Like tapers clear without number! 1791 HERRICK: Aph. Night Piece, To Julia.

Ye stars! which are the poetry of Heaven, If in your bright leaves we would read the fate Of men and empires,—'t is to be forgiven, That in our aspirations to be great, Our destinies o'erleap their mortal state, And claim a kindred with you. 1792 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 88.

Now only here and there a little star Looks forth alone. 1793 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: The Constellations.

State.

A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust. 1794 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 84.

Statesman.

An honest statesman to a prince, Is like a cedar planted by a spring; The spring bathes the tree's root, the grateful tree Rewards it with his shadow. 1795 WEBSTER: Duchess of Malfi, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Steed.

Hurrah, hurrah for Sheridan! Hurrah, hurrah for horse and man! And when their statues are placed on high, Under the dome of the Union sky,— The American soldier's Temple of Fame,— There with the glorious General's name Be it said in letters both bold and bright: "Here is the steed that saved the day By carrying Sheridan into the fight, From Winchester,—twenty miles away!" 1796 THOMAS BUCHANAN READ: Sheridan's Ride.

Stones.

Put a tongue In every wound of Caesar that should move The stones of Rome to rise and mutiny. 1797 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Storms.

We often see, against some storm, A silence in the heavens, the rack stand still, The bold winds speechless, and the orb below As hush as death. 1798 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act ii., Sc. 2.

God moves in a mysterious way His wonders to perform; He plants his footsteps in the sea And rides upon the storm. 1799 COWPER: Light Shining out of Darkness.

Nail to the mast her holy flag, Set every threadbare sail, And give her to the god of storms, The lightning and the gale! 1800 OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: Old Ironsides.

Story.

Her father loved me; oft invited me; Still question'd me the story of my life, From year to year, the battles, sieges, fortune, That I have passed. 1801 SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

She thank'd me, And bade me, if I had a friend that loved her, I should but teach him how to tell my story, And that would woo her. 1802 SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

Strangers.

By foreign hands thy dying eyes were clos'd, By foreign hands thy decent limbs compos'd, By foreign hands thy humble grave adorn'd, By strangers honored, and by strangers mourn'd. 1803 POPE: To the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady, Line 51.

Streets.

The graves stood tenantless, and the sheeted dead Did squeak and gibber in the Roman streets. 1804 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1.

Strength.

O, it is excellent To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous To use it like a giant. 1805 SHAKS.: M. for M., Act ii., Sc. 2.

To be strong Is to be happy! 1806 LONGFELLOW: Christus, Golden Legend, Pt. ii.

Strife.

No fears to beat away, no strife to heal,— The past unsighed for, and the future sure. 1807 WORDSWORTH: Laodamia.

Striving.

How far your eyes may pierce I cannot tell; Striving to better, oft we mar what's well. 1808 SHAKS.: King Lear, Act i., Sc. 4.

Study.

Study is like the heaven's glorious sun, That will not be deep-search'd with saucy looks; Small have continual plodders ever won, Save base authority from others' books. 1809 SHAKS.: Love's L. Lost, Act i., Sc. 1.

If not to some peculiar end design'd Study 's the specious trifling of the mind, Or is at best a secondary aim, A chase for sport alone, and not for game. 1810 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 67.

Style.

The lives of trees lie only in the barks, And in their styles the wit of greatest clerks. 1811 BUTLER: Sat. on Abuse of Human Learning, Line 211.

Success.

Didst thou never hear That things ill got had ever bad success? 1812 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2.

Life lives only in success. 1813 BAYARD TAYLOR: Amran's Wooing, St. 5.

'Tis not in mortals to command success; But we'll do more, Sempronius—we'll deserve it. 1814 ADDISON: Cato, Act i., Sc. 2.

Suffering.

Yet tears to human suffering are due; And mortal hopes defeated and o'erthrown Are mourned by man, and not by man alone. 1815 WORDSWORTH: Laodamia.

Suicide.

Why, he that cuts off twenty years of life Cuts off so many years of fearing death. 1816 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 1.

—He That kills himself to avoid misery, fears it; And at the best shows but a bastard valor. 1817 MASSINGER: Maid of Honor, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Summer.

Eternal summer gilds them yet, But all except their sun is set. 1818 Byron: Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1.

It is a sultry day; the sun has drunk The dew that lay upon the morning grass; There is no rustling in the lofty elm That canopies my dwelling, and its shade Scarce cools me. All is silent, save the faint And interrupted murmur of the bee, Settling on the sick flowers, and then again Instantly on the wing. 1819 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Summer Wind.

Sun.

The glorious sun, Stays in his course, and plays the alchemist; Turning, with splendor of his precious eye, The meagre cloddy earth to glittering gold. 1820 SHAKS.: King John, Act iii., Sc. 1.

Busy old fool, unruly sun, Why dost thou thus, Through windows and through curtains call on us? 1821 JOHN DONNE: The Sun-Rising.

My own hope is, a sun will pierce The thickest cloud earth ever stretched. 1822 ROBERT BROWNING: Apparent Failure, vii.

Sunflower.

Light enchanted sunflower, thou Who gazest ever true and tender On the sun's revolving splendor! * * * * * Restless sunflowers, cease to move. 1823 SHELLEY: Tr. of "Magico Prodigioso" of Calderon, Sc. 3.

The heart that has truly lov'd never forgets, But as truly loves on to the close, As the sunflower turns on her god when he sets The same look which she turn'd when he rose. 1824 MOORE: Believe Me, If all Those Endearing Young Charms.

Miles and miles of gold and green Where the sunflowers blow In a solid glow. 1825 ROBERT BROWNING: Lovers' Quarrel, St. 6.

Unloved, the sunflower, shining fair, Ray round with flames her disk of seed. 1826 TENNYSON: In Memoriam, Pt. ci., St. 2.

Sunrise.

When from the opening chambers of the east The morning springs in thousand liveries drest, The early larks their morning tribute pay, And, in shrill notes, salute the blooming day. 1827 THOMSON: The Morning in the Country.

'Tis morn. Behold the kingly Day now leaps The eastern wall of earth with sword in hand, Clad in a flowing robe of mellow light. Like to a king that has regain'd his throne, He warms his drooping subjects into joy, That rise rejoiced to do him fealty, And rules with pomp the universal world. 1828 JOAQUIN MILLER: Ina, Sc. 2.

Sunset.

The weary sun hath made a golden set, And, by the bright track of his fiery car, Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow. 1829 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act v., Sc. 3.

O the wondrous golden sunset of the blest October day. 1830 JULIA C.R. DORR: Margery Grey, St. 24.

The descending sun Seems to caress the city that he loves, And crowns it with the aureole of a saint. 1831 LONGFELLOW: Michael Angelo, Pt. i., 2.

The sun is going down, And I must see the glory from the hill. 1832 GEORGE ELIOT: Agatha.

Sunshine.

See the gold sunshine patching, And streaming and streaking across The gray-green oaks; and catching, By its soft brown beard, the moss. 1833 BAILEY: Festus, Sc. The Surface.

As sunshine broken in the rill, Though turned astray, is sunshine still. 1834 MOORE: The Fire-Worshippers.

Surfeit.

As surfeit is the father of much fast, So every scope, by the immoderate use, Turns to restraint. 1835 SHAKS.: M. for M., Act i., Sc. 3.

Surprise.

The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. 1836 DRYDEN: Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 41.

Suspense.

For thee the fates, severely kind, ordain A cool suspense, from pleasure and from pain. 1837 POPE: Eloisa to A., Line 249.

Suspicion.

Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind; The thief doth fear each bush an officer. 1838 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 6.

Swallow.

When Autumn scatters his departing gleams, Warned of approaching Winter, gathered, play The swallow-people; and tossed wide around O'er the calm sky, in convolution swift, The feathered eddy floats; rejoicing once, Ere to their wintry slumbers they retire. 1839 THOMSON: Seasons, Autumn, Line 836.

Swans.

The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows Her state with oary feet. 1840 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. vii., Line 438.

Swearing.

And being thus frighted swears a prayer or two And sleeps again. 1841 SHAKS.: Rom. and Jul., Act i., Sc. 4.

Take not His name, who made thy mouth, in vain; It gets thee nothing, and hath no excuse. 1842 HERBERT: Temple, Church Porch, St. 10.

Sweetness.

Things sweet to taste prove in digestion sour. 1843 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act i., Sc. 3.

Married to immortal verse, Such as the meeting soul may pierce, In notes with many a winding bout Of linked sweetness long drawn out. 1844 MILTON: L'Allegro, Line 135.

Swiftness.

I go, I go; look how I go; Swifter than arrow from the Tartar's bow. 1845 SHAKS.: Mid. N. Dream, Act iii., Sc. 2.

His golden locks time hath to silver turned; O time too swift! O swiftness never ceasing! 1846 GEORGE PEELE: Sonnet, Polyhymnia.

Swimming.

How many a time have I Cloven with arm still lustier, breast more daring, The wave all roughen'd; with a swimmer's stroke Flinging the billows back from my drench'd hair, And laughing from my lip the audacious brine, Which kiss'd it like a wine-cup, rising o'er The waves as they arose, and prouder still The loftier they uplifted me. 1847 BYRON: Two Foscari, Act i., Sc. 1.

Sword.

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. 1848 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 4.

Chase brave employment with a naked sword Throughout the world. 1849 HERBERT: The Church Porch.

Sympathy.

Thou hast given me, in this beauteous face, A world of earthly blessings to my soul, If sympathy of love unite our thoughts. 1850 SHAKS.: 2 Henry VI., Act i., Sc. 1.

There's nought in this bad world like sympathy: 'Tis so becoming to the soul and face— Sets to soft music the harmonious sigh, And robes sweet friendship in a Brussels lace. 1851 BYRON: Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 47.

Synods.

Synods are mystical bear-gardens, Where elders, deputies, church-wardens, And other members of the court, Manage the Babylonish sport. 1852 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 1095.



T.

Tale.

Who so shall telle a tale after a man, He moste reherse, as neighe as ever he can, Everich word, if it be in his charge, All speke he never so rudely and so large. 1853 CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 733.

But that I am forbid To tell the secrets of my prison-house, I could a tale unfold, whose lightest word Would harrow up thy soul. 1854 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.

I will a round unvarnish'd tale deliver Of my whole course of love. 1855 SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

Meet me by moonlight alone, And then I will tell you a tale Must be told by the moonlight alone, In the grove at the end of the vale! 1856 J.A. WADE: Meet Me by Moonlight.

Talk.

We will not stand to prate; Talkers are no good doers; be assured We go to use our hands, and not our tongues. 1857 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 3.

But still his tongue ran on, the less Of weight it bore, with greater ease And with its everlasting clack, Set all men's ears upon the rack. 1858 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. iii., Canto ii., Line 443.

They always talk who never think. 1859 PRIOR: Upon this Passage in the Scaligeriana.

Where Nature's end of language is declin'd, And men talk only to conceal the mind. 1860 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire ii., Line 207.

It would talk,— Lord! how it talked! 1861 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: Scornful Lady, Act v., Sc. 1.

Tasso.

Tasso is their glory and their shame. Hark to his strain! and then survey his cell! And see how dearly earn'd Torquato's fame, And where Alfonso bade his poet dwell. 1862 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 36.

Taste.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 1863 POPE: Satire vi., Line 268.

Good native Taste, tho' rude, is seldom wrong, Be it in music, painting, or in song: But this, as well as other faculties, Improves with age and ripens by degrees. 1864 ARMSTRONG: Taste, Line 26

Such and so various are the tastes of men. 1865 AKENSIDE: Pl. of the Imagination, Bk. iii., Line 567.

Taxation.

By heaven, I had rather coin my heart, And drop my blood for drachmas, than to wring From the hard hands of peasants their vile trash, By any indirection. 1866 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Who nothing has to lose, the war bewails; And he who nothing pays, at taxes rails. 1867 CONGREVE: Epis. to Sir Richard Temple. Of Pleasing, Line 17.

Tea.

For her own breakfast she'll project a scheme, Nor take her tea without a stratagem. 1868 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 190.

Teaching.

I have labored, And with no little study, that my teaching And the strong course of my authority Might go one way. 1869 SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act v., Sc. 2.

Tears.

The big round tears Cours'd one another down his innocent nose In piteous chase. 1870 SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 1.

Then fresh tears Stood on her cheeks, as doth the honey-dew Upon a gather'd lily almost wither'd. 1871 SHAKS.: Titus And., Act iii., Sc. 1.

Our present tears here, not our present laughter, Are but the handsells of our joys hereafter. 1872 HERRICK: Noble Numbers, Tears.

Thrice he assay'd, and thrice in spite of scorn, Tears, such as angels weep, burst forth. 1873 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. i., Line 619.

A child will weep a bramble's smart, A maid to see her sparrow part, A stripling for a woman's heart: But woe awaits a country, when She sees the tears of bearded men. 1874 SCOTT: Marmion, Canto v., St. 16.

To me the meanest flower that blows can give Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears. 1875 WORDSWORTH: Intimations of Immortality.

Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Tears from the depth of some divine despair Rise in the heart, and gather to the eyes, In looking on the happy Autumn fields, And thinking of the days that are no more. 1876 TENNYSON: The Princess, Pt. iv., Line 21.

Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile. 1877 CAMPBELL: Pl. of Hope, Pt. i., Line 180.

Under the sod and the dew, Waiting the judgment day; Love and tears for the Blue, Tears and love for the Gray. 1878 FRANCIS M. FINCH: The Blue and the Gray.

Temper.

Ye gods, it doth amaze me A man of such a feeble temper should So get the start of the majestic world And bear the palm alone. 1879 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act i., Sc. 2.

Temperance.

Temp'rate in every place,—abroad, at home. Thence will applause, and hence will profit come; And health from either—he in time prepares For sickness, age, and their attendant cares. 1880 CRABBE: The Borough, Letter xvii., Line 198.

Tempests.

The southern wind Doth play the trumpet to his purposes; And, by his hollow whistling in the leaves, Foretells a tempest and a blustering day. 1881 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 1.

Suddeine they see from midst of all the maine The surging waters like a mountaine rise, And the great sea puft up with proud disdaine, To swell above the measure of his guise, As threatning to devoure all that his powre despise. 1882 SPENSER: Faerie Queene, Bk. ii., Canto xii., St. 21.

From cloud to cloud the rending lightnings rage; Till, in the furious elemental war Dissolv'd, the whole precipitated mass, Unbroken floods and solid torrents pours. 1883 THOMSON: Seasons, Summer, Line 799.

The sky Is overcast, and musters muttering thunder, In clouds that seem approaching fast, and show In forked flashes a commanding tempest. 1884 BYRON: Sardanapalus, Act ii., Sc. 1.

Temptation.

Oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths; Win us with honest trifles, to betray us In deepest consequence. 1885 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 3.

'Tis the temptation of the devil That makes all human actions evil; For saints may do the same things by The spirit, in sincerity, Which other men are tempted to, And at the devil's instance do: And yet the actions be contrary, Just as the saints and wicked vary. 1886 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 233.

Safe from temptation, safe from sin's pollution, She lives whom we call dead. 1887 LONGFELLOW: Resignation

Tenderness.

Higher than the perfect song For which love longeth, Is the tender fear of wrong, That never wrongeth. 1888 BAYARD TAYLOR: Improvisations, Pt. v.

Tents.

Shall fold their tents like the Arabs, And as silently steal away. 1889 LONGFELLOW: The Day is Done.

Terror.

There is no terror, Cassius, in your threats. 1890 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Test.

Bring me to the test, And I the matter will re-word. 1891 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.

Text.

And many a holy text around she strews, That teach the rustic moralist to die. 1892 GRAY: Elegy, St. 21.

Thankfulness.

The poorest service is repaid with thanks. 1893 SHAKS.: Tam. of the S., Act iv., Sc. 3.

Thanks to men Of noble minds, is honorable meed. 1894 SHAKS.: Titus And., Act i., Sc. 2.

Theatre.

As in a theatre, the eyes of men, After a well-graced actor leaves the stage, Are idly bent on him that enters next, Thinking his prattle to be tedious. 1895 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5.

Thief.

The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief. 1896 SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

Thirst.

That panting thirst, which scorches in the breath Of those that die the soldier's fiery death, In vain impels the burning mouth to crave One drop—the last—to cool it for the grave. 1897 BYRON: Lara, Canto ii., St. 16.

Thorn.

Why are we fond of toil and care? Why choose the rankling thorn to wear? 1898 J.M. USTERI: Life let us Cherish.

Thought.

Our thoughts are ours, their ends none of our own. 1899 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Thought alone is eternal. 1900 OWEN MEREDITH: Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto v., St. 16.

No thought which ever stirred A human breast should be untold. 1901 ROBERT BROWNING: Paracelsus, Sc. 2.

Thought leapt out to wed with Thought Ere Thought could wed itself with Speech. 1902 TENNYSON: In Memoriam, Pt. xxiii., St. 4.

Thought is deeper than all speech, Feeling deeper than all thought; Souls to souls can never teach What unto themselves was taught. 1903 CHRISTOPHER P. CRANCH: Stanzas.

Thread.

Sewing at once a double thread, A shroud as well as a shirt. 1904 HOOD: Song of the Shirt.

Threats.

If thou more murmur'st, I will rend an oak, And peg thee in his knotty entrails, till Thou hast howl'd away twelve winters. 1905 SHAKS.: Tempest, Act i., Sc. 2.

Back to thy punishment, False fugitive, and to thy speed add wings, Lest with a whip of scorpions I pursue Thy ling'ring. 1906 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 699.

Thrift.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral baked meats Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables. 1907 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2.

Throne.

High on a throne of royal state, which far Outshone the wealth of Ormus and of Ind. 1908 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1.

Thunder.

And threat'ning France, plac'd like a painted Jove, Kept idle thunder in his lifted hand. 1909 DRYDEN: Annus Mirabilis, St. 39.

Far along, From peak to peak, the rattling crags among, Leaps the live thunder. 1910 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 92.

Tide.

Even at the turning o' the tide. 1911 SHAKS.: Henry V., Act ii., Sc. 3.

There is a tide in the affairs of men Which taken at the flood, leads on to fortune. 1912 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Time.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me. 1913 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act v., Sc. 5.

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, Old time is still a-flying; And this same flower that smiles to-day, To-morrow will be dying. 1914 HERRICK: To Virgins to Make Much of Time.

Threefold the stride of Time, from first to last! Loitering slow, the FUTURE creepeth— Arrow-swift, the PRESENT sweepeth— And motionless forever stands the PAST. 1915 SCHILLER: Sentences of Confucius, Time.

Tithes.

This priest he merry is and blithe Three quarters of a year, But oh! it cuts him like a scythe, When tithing-time draws near. 1916 COWPER: Yearly Distress, St. 2.

Titles.

We all are soldiers, and all venture lives; And where there is no difference in men's worth, Titles are jests. 1917 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: King or No King, Act i., Sc. 1.

Titles are marks of honest men and wise; The fool or knave that wears a title, lies. 1918 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire i., Line 137.

Toad.

Squat like a toad, close at the ear of Eve. 1919 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 800.

Tobacco.

Sublime tobacco! which from east to west Cheers the tar's labor or the Turkman's rest. 1920 BYRON: The Island, Canto ii., St. 19.

To-day.

Happy the man and happy he alone, He who can call to-day his own. 1921 DRYDEN: Im. of Horace, Bk. iii., Ode 29, Line 65.

Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but—To-day? 1922 TUPPER: Proverbial Phil. of To-day

Toil.

No man is born into the world whose work Is not born with him. There is always work, And tools to work withal, for those who will; And blessed are the horny hands of toil. 1923 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: A Glance Behind the Curtain.

Tomb.

E'en from the tomb the voice of nature cries, E'en in our ashes live their wonted fires. 1924 GRAY: Elegy, St. 23.

To-morrow.

To-morrow, and to-morrow, and to-morrow, Creeps in this petty pace from day to day, To the last syllable of recorded time; And all our yesterdays have lighted fools The way to dusty death. 1925 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 5.

Defer not till to-morrow to be wise, To-morrow's sun on thee may never rise. 1926 CONGREVE: Letter to Cobham.

To-morrow comes and we are where? Then let us live to-day. 1927 SCHILLER: The Victory Feast, St. 13.

Where art thou, beloved To-morrow? Whom young and old, and strong and weak, Rich and poor, through joy and sorrow, Thy sweet smiles we ever seek— In thy place—ah! well-a-day! We find the thing we fled—To-day. 1928 SHELLEY: To-morrow.

Tongue.

While thou livest, keep a good tongue in thy head. 1929 SHAKS.: Tempest, Act iii., Sc. 2.

No, let the candied tongue lick absurd pomp, And crook the pregnant hinges of the knee Where thrift may follow fawning. 1930 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Sacred interpreter of human thought, How few respect or use thee as they ought! But all shall give account of every wrong, Who dare dishonor or defile the tongue. 1931 COWPER: Conversation, Line 23.

Tools.

For all a rhetorician's rules Teach nothing but to name his tools. 1932 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. i., Canto i., Line 89.

Toothache.

There was never yet philosopher That could endure the toothache patiently. 1933 SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1.

Torrent.

So the loud torrent and the whirlwind's roar But bind him to his native mountains more. 1934 GOLDSMITH: Traveller, Line 217.

Torture.

The hell of waters! where they howl and hiss, And boil in endless torture. 1935 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 69.

Towers.

Towers and battlements it sees Bosom'd high in tufted trees. 1936 MILTON: L'Allegro, Line 75.

Town.

God made the country, and man made the town. 1937 COWPER: Task, Bk i., Line 749.

Toys.

Seeks painted trifles and fantastic toys, And eagerly pursues imaginary joys. 1938 AKENSIDE: Virtuoso, St. 10.

Trade.

But times are alter'd; trade's unfeeling train Usurp the land, and dispossess the swain; Along the lawn, where scatter'd hamlets rose, Unwieldy wealth and cumbrous pomp repose. 1939 GOLDSMITH: Des. Village, Line 63.

Trade's proud empire hastes to swift decay. 1940 DR. JOHNSON: Line added to Goldsmith's Des. Village.

Tranquillity.

Like ships that have gone down at sea When heaven was all tranquillity. 1941 MOORE: Lalla Rookh, The Light of the Harem.

Traveller—Travelling.

Now spurs the lated traveller apace To gain the timely inn. 1942 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 3.

When I was at home, I was in a better place; But travellers must be content. 1943 SHAKS.: As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 4.

In travelling I shape myself betimes to idleness And take fools' pleasures.... 1944 GEORGE ELIOT: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. i.

Treason.

Then I, and you, and all of us fell down, Whilst bloody treason flourish'd over us. 1945 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.

So Judas kiss'd his master, And cried—All hail! when as he meant—all harm. 1946 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 7.

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why, if it prosper, none dare call it treason. 1947 SIR JOHN HARRINGTON: Epigrams, Bk. iv., Epigram 5.

Treason is not own'd when 'tis descried; Successful crimes alone are justified. 1948 DRYDEN: Medals, Line 207.

Treasure.

The unsunn'd heaps Of miser's treasure. 1949 MILTON: Comus, Line 398.

Trees.

Trees can smile in light at the sinking sun Just as the storm comes, as a girl would look On a departing lover—most serene. 1950 ROBERT BROWNING: Pauline, Line 726.

The groves were God's first temples. Ere man learned To hew the shaft, and lay the architrave, And spread the roof above them. 1951 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Forest Hymn.

Sure thou didst flourish once! and many springs, Many bright mornings, much dew, many showers, Passed o'er thy head; many light hearts and wings, Which now are dead, lodg'd in thy living bowers. 1952 HENRY VAUGHAN: The Timber.

A brotherhood of venerable trees. 1953 WORDSWORTH: Sonnet composed at —— Castle.

Trial.

We learn through trial. 1954 MARGARET J. PRESTON: Attainment, St. 7.

Trifles.

Since trifles make the sum of human things, And half our misery from our foibles springs. 1955 HANNAH MORE: Sensibility.

Think nought a trifle, though it small appear; Small sands the mountain, moments make the year; And trifles life. 1956 YOUNG: Love of Fame, Satire vi., Line 193.

Triumph.

Why comes temptation, but for man to meet And master, and make crouch beneath his foot, And so be pedestaled in triumph? 1957 ROBERT BROWNING: The Ring and the Book, Line 1185.

Trouble.

Double, double toil and trouble, Fire burn, and cauldron bubble. 1958 SHAKS.: Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1.

To be, or not to be: that is the question: Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer The stings and arrows of outrageous fortune, Or to take arms against a sea of troubles, And by opposing end them. 1959 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth.

Truth is the highest thing that man may keep. 1960 CHAUCER: The Frankeleines Tale, Line 11789.

O, while you live, tell truth, and shame the devil. 1961 SHAKS.: 1 Henry IV., Act iii., Sc. 1.

Truth crushed to earth shall rise again: The eternal years of God are hers. 1962 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: The Battle-field.

Dare to be true. Nothing can need a lie; A fault, which needs it most, grows two thereby. 1963 HERBERT: Temple, Church Porch, St. 13.

Truth has such a face and such a mien, As to be lov'd, needs only to be seen. 1964 DRYDEN: Hind and Panther, Pt. i., Line 33.

He is the freeman whom the truth makes free, And all are slaves beside. 1965 COWPER: Task, Bk. v., Line 133.

Truth is one; And, in all lands beneath the sun, Whoso hath eyes to see may see The tokens of its unity. 1966 WHITTIER: Miriam.

Truth is truth howe'er it strike. 1967 ROBERT BROWNING: La Saisiaz, Line 198.

I love truth: truth's no cleaner thing than love. 1968 MRS. BROWNING: Aurora Leigh, Bk. iii., Line 735.

Beauty is truth, truth beauty,—that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. 1969 KEATS: Ode on a Grecian Urn.

Truth forever on the scaffold, Wrong forever on the throne. 1970 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Present Crisis, St. 8.

Tulips.

Then comes the tulip race, where beauty plays Her idle freaks; from family diffused To family, as flies the father-dust, The varied colors run; and while they break On the charmed eye, the exulting florist marks, With secret pride, the wonders of his hand. 1971 THOMSON: Seasons, Spring, Line 539.

Tune.

Strange that a harp of thousand strings Should keep in tune so long! 1972 WATTS: Hymns and Spiritual Songs, Bk. ii., Hymn 19.

Turf.

Green be the turf above thee, Friend of my better days! 1973 FITZ-GREENE HALLECK: On Joseph Rodman Drake.

Turk.

Should such a man, too fond to rule alone, Bear, like the Turk, no brother near the throne. 1974 POPE: Prologue to the Satires, Line 197.

Twilight.

Now came still evening on, and twilight gray Had in her sober livery all things clad. 1975 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 598.

Peacefully The quiet stars came out, one after one; The holy twilight fell upon the sea, The summer day was done. 1976 CELIA THAXTER: A Summer Day, St. 15

Tyranny.

'Tis time to fear, when tyrants seem to kiss. 1977 SHAKS.: Pericles, Act i., Sc. 2.

'Twixt kings and tyrants there's this difference known— Kings seek their subjects' good, tyrants their own. 1978 HERRICK: Aph. Kings and Tyrants.

Think'st thou there is no tyranny but that Of blood and chains? 1979 BYRON: Sardanapalus, Act i., Sc. 2.



U.

Uncertainty.

Oh, how this spring of love resembleth The uncertain glory of an April day! 1980 SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act i., Sc. 3.

Unity.

Two souls with but a single thought, Two hearts that beat as one. 1981 MARIA WHITE LOWELL: Ingomar the Barbarian, Act ii.

Unkindness.

This was the most unkindest cut of all. 1982 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act iii., Sc. 2.

Use.

These things are beyond all use, And I do fear them. 1983 SHAKS.: Jul. Caesar, Act ii., Sc. 2.



V.

Vacuity.

He trudged along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. 1984 DRYDEN: Cym. and Iph., Line 84.

Valentine.

Oft have I heard both youths and virgins say, Birds choose their mates, and couple too, this day; But by their flight I never can divine When I shall couple with my Valentine. 1985 HERRICK: Aph. To His Valentine.

Valor.

Fear to do base unworthy things is valor; If they be done to us, to suffer them, Is valor too. 1986 BEN JONSON: New Inn, Act iv., Sc. 3.

Vanity.

Light vanity, insatiate cormorant Consuming means, soon preys upon itself. 1987 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act ii., Sc. 1.

What dotage will not Vanity maintain? What web too weak to catch a modern brain? 1988 COWPER: Expostulation, Line 630.

Vapor.

A wing vapor melting in a tear. 1989 POPE: Odyssey, Bk. xix., Line 143.

Variety.

Variety's the very spice of life, That gives it all its flavor. 1990 COWPER: Task, Bk. ii., Line 606.

Vault.

Heaven's ebon vault Studded with stars unutterably bright. 1991 SHELLEY: Queen Mab.

Vengeance.

In high vengeance there is noble scorn. 1992 GEORGE ELIOT: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iv.

Venice.

I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand. 1993 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 1.

In Venice, Tasso's echoes are no more, And silent rows the songless gondolier. 1994 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iv., St. 3.

Venus.

Love seldom haunts the breast where learning lies, And Venus sets ere Mercury can rise. 1995 POPE: Wife of Bath, Her Prologue, Line 369.

Verse.

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. 1996 POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Verse sweetens toil, however rude the sound; She feels no biting pang the while she sings. 1997 RICHARD GIFFORD: Contemplation.

Vice.

There is no vice so simple, but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. 1998 SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act iii., Sc. 2.

I hate when vice can bolt her arguments, And virtue has no tongue to check her pride. 1999 MILTON: Comus, Line 760.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As to be hated needs but to be seen; Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face, We first endure, then pity, then embrace. 2000 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 217.

Victory.

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac'd with wreaths of victory. 2001 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 3.

"But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory." 2002 ROBERT SOUTHEY: Battle of Blenheim.

Village.

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. 2003 GOLDSMITH: Des. Village.

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats, That dread th' encroachment of our growing streets, Tight boxes neatly sash'd, and in a blaze With all a July sun's collected rays, Delight the citizen, who gasping there, Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air. 2004 COWPER: Retirement, Line 481.

Villain.

Which is the villain? Let me see his eyes; That when I note another man like him I may avoid him. 2005 SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1.

Vine.

Come, thou monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne! 2006 SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 7.

Violet.

A violet by a mossy stone Half hidden from the eye; Fair as a star, when only one Is shining in the sky. 2007 WORDSWORTH: She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways.

Odors, when sweet violets sicken, Live within the sense they quicken. 2008 SHELLEY: Music, When Soft Voices Die.

What thought is folded in thy leaves! What tender thought, what speechless pain! I hold thy faded lips to mine, Thou darling of the April rain! 2009 THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH: The Faded Violet.

Virtue.

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do; Not light them for themselves: for if our virtues Did not go forth of us, 'twere all alike As if we had them not. 2010 SHAKS.: M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1.

Men's evil manners live in brass; their virtues We write in water. 2011 SHAKS.: Henry III., Act iv., Sc. 2.

Assume a virtue if you have it not. 2012 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.

Virtue may be assail'd, but never hurt; Surpris'd by unjust force, but not enthrall'd; Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm, Shall in the happy trial prove most glory. 2013 MILTON: Comus, Line 589.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then? Is the reward of virtue bread? 2014 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 149.

Vision.

And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 2015 MILTON: Comus, Line 453.

Voice.

Her voice was ever soft, Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman. 2016 SHAKS.: King Lear, Act v., Sc. 3.

Vows.

Unheedful vows may needfully be broken. 2017 SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act ii., Sc. 6.

It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word. 2018 BYRON: Parisina, St. 1.



W.

Wagers.

Quoth she, I've heard old cunning stagers Say fools for arguments use wagers. 2019 BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto i., Line 297.

Walks.

A pillar'd shade High overarch'd, and echoing walks between. 2020 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 1106.

Whene'er I take my walks abroad, How many poor I see! 2021 WATTS: Divine Songs, Song iv.

War.

O war, thou son of hell, Whom angry heav'ns do make their minister, Throw in the frozen bosoms of our part Hot coals of vengeance!—Let no soldier fly; He that is truly delicate to war Hath no self-love: nor he that loves himself. 2022 SHAKS.: 2 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 2.

Grim-visaged war hath smoothed his wrinkled front. 2023 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1.

War's a game, which, were their subjects wise, Kings would not play at. 2024 COWPER: Task, Bk. v., Line 186.

War, war is still the cry, "War even to the knife!" 2025 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto i., St. 86.

War is a terrible trade; but in the cause that is righteous, Sweet is the smell of powder. 2026 LONGFELLOW: Courtship of Miles Standish, Pt. iv., Line 135.

Warning.

Men that stumble at the threshold, Are well foretold that danger lurks within. 2027 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act iv., Sc. 7.

Warrior.

But he lay like a warrior taking his rest, With his martial cloak around him. 2028 CHARLES WOLFE: Burial of Sir John Moore.

Washington.

Washington's a watchword such as ne'er Shall sink while there's an echo left to air. 2029 BYRON: Age of Bronze, St. 5.

Water.

Smooth runs the water where the brook is deep. 2030 SHAKS.: 2 Henry VI., Act iii., Sc. 1.

Till taught by pain, Men really know not what good water's worth: If you had been in Turkey or in Spain, Or with a famish'd boat's crew had your berth, Or in the desert heard the camel's bell, You'd wish yourself where truth is—in a well. 2031 BYRON: Don Juan, Canto ii., St. 84.

Wave.

So gently shuts the eye of day; So dies a wave along the shore. 2032 MRS. BARBAULD: Death of the Virtuous.

A life on the ocean wave! A home on the rolling deep, Where the scattered waters rave, And the winds their revels keep! 2033 EPES SARGENT: Life On the Ocean Wave.

Way.

Like one that had been led astray Through the heav'n's wide, pathless way. 2034 MILTON: Il Penseroso, Line 65.

Weakness.

If weakness may excuse, What murderer, what traitor, parricide, Incestuous, sacrilegious, but may plead it? All wickedness is weakness; that plea, therefore, With God or man will gain thee no remission. 2035 MILTON: Sam. Agonistes, Line 831.

Wealth.

If thou art rich, thou art poor; For, like an ass, whose back with ingots bows, Thou bearest thy heavy riches but a journey, And death unloads thee. 2036 SHAKS.: M. for M., Act iii., Sc. 1.

To purchase heaven, has gold the power? Can gold remove the mortal hour? In life, can love be bought with gold? Are friendship's pleasures to be sold? 2037 DR. JOHNSON: To a Friend.

Weeds.

Have hung My dank and dropping weeds To the stern god of sea. 2038 MILTON: Tr. of Horace, Bk. i., Ode 5.

Welcome.

So, you are very welcome to our house. It must appear in other ways than words, Therefore, I scant this breathing courtesy. 2039 SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act v., Sc. 1.

A hundred thousand welcomes: I could weep, And I could laugh; I am light and heavy: Welcome. 2040 SHAKS.: Coriolanus, Act ii., Sc. 1.

Wheel.

I wandered by the brookside, I wandered by the mill; I could not hear the brook flow, The noisy wheel was still. 2041 RICHARD MONCKTON MILNES: The Brookside.

Wickedness.

There is a method in man's wickedness,— It grows up by degrees. 2042 BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: A King and No King, Act v., Sc. 4.

Widows.

May widows wed as often as they can, And ever for the better change their man; And some devouring plague pursue their lives, Who will not well be govern'd by their wives. 2043 DRYDEN: Wife of Bath, Line 543.

Wife.

She is mine own: And I as rich in having such a jewel, As twenty seas, if all their sands were pearl, The water nectar, and the rocks pure gold. 2044 SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act ii., Sc. 4.

We'll leave a proof, by that which we will do, Wives may be merry, and yet honest too. 2045 SHAKS.: Mer. W. of W., Act iv., Sc. 2.

The wife, where danger or dishonor lurks, Safest and seemliest by her husband stays, Who guards her, or with her the worst endures. 2046 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 267.

She is a bonnie wee thing, This sweet wee wife o' mine. 2047 BURNS: My Wife's a Winsome Wee Thing.

The world well tried—the sweetest thing in life Is the unclouded welcome of a wife. 2048 N.P. WILLIS: Lady Jane, Canto ii., St. 11.

Wilderness.

Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade. 2049 COWPER: Task, Bk. ii., Line 1.

Will.

A weapon that comes down as still As snowflakes fall upon the sod; But executes a freeman's will, As lightning does the will of God. 2050 JOHN PIERPONT: A Word from a Petitioner.

Willow.

A poore soule sat sighing under a sycamore tree; Oh, willow, willow, willow! With his hand on his bosom, his head on his knee, Oh, willow, willow, willow! 2051 THOMAS PERCY: Willow, Willow, Willow.

Wind.

What wind blew you hither, Pistol? Not the ill wind which blows none to good. 2052 SHAKS.: 2 Henry IV., Act v., Sc. 3.

The wind is rising; it seizes and shakes The doors and window-blinds and makes Mysterious moanings in the halls; The convent-chimneys seem almost The trumpets of some heavenly host, Setting its watch upon our walls! 2053 LONGFELLOW: Christus, Abbot Joachim.

A gentle wind of western birth, From some far summer sea, Wakes daisies in the wintry earth. 2054 GEORGE MACDONALD: Songs of the Spring Days.

A melancholy sound is in the air, A deep sigh in the distance, a shrill wail Around my dwelling. 'Tis the Wind of night. 2055 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: A Rain Dream.

Windows.

Rich windows that exclude the light, And passages that lead to nothing. 2056 GRAY: A Long Story.

Wine.

Wine makes Love forget its care, And mirth exalts a feast. 2057 PARNELL: Anacreontic, "Gay Bacchus, etc.", St. 2.

And wine can of their wits the wise beguile, Make the sage frolic, and the serious smile. 2058 POPE: Odyssey, Bk. xiv., Line 520.

Wing.

This quiet sail is as a noiseless wing To waft me from distraction. 2059 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 85.

How at heaven's gates she claps her wings, The morne not waking til she sings. 2060 JOHN LYLY: Cupid and Campaspe, Act v., Sc. 1

Winter.

Now is the winter of our discontent Made glorious summer by this sun of York. 2061 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1.

See, Winter comes to rule the varied year, Sullen and sad, with all his rising train, Vapors, and clouds, and storms. 2062 THOMSON: Seasons, Winter, Line 1.

But Winter has yet brighter scenes—he boasts Splendors beyond what gorgeous Summer knows; Or Autumn with his many fruits, and woods All flushed with many hues. 2063 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: A Winter Piece.

No vernal blooms their torpid rocks array, But winter lingering chills the lap of May. 2064 GOLDSMITH: Traveller, Line 171.

In rigorous hours, when down the iron lane The redbreast looks in vain For hips and haws, Lo, shining flowers upon my window-pane The silver pencil of the winter draws. 2065 ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON: Winter.

Wisdom.

Wisdom and fortune combating together, If that the former dare but what it can, No chance may shake it. 2066 SHAKS.: Ant. and Cleo., Act iii., Sc. 11.

What is it to be wise? 'Tis but to know how little can be known; To see all others' faults, and feel your own. 2067 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 260.

The stream from Wisdom's well, Which God supplies, is inexhaustible. 2068 BAYARD TAYLOR: Wisdom of All.

And Wisdom's self Oft seeks to sweet retired solitude. 2069 MILTON: Comus, Line 373.

Wishes.

Thy wish was father, Harry, to that thought. 2070 SHAKS.: 2 Henry IV., Act iv., Sc. 4.

Our wishes lengthen, as our sun declines. 2071 YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 662.

Wit—Wits.

I hold a mouses wit not worth a leke, That hath but one hole for to sterten to. 2072 CHAUCER: Canterbury Tales, The Wif of Bathes Prologue, Line 6154.

Wit's an unruly engine, wildly striking Sometimes a friend, sometimes the engineer. 2073 HERBERT: Temple, Church Porch, St. 41.

Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. 2074 DRYDEN: Absalom and Achitophel, Pt. i., Line 163.

Men famed for wit, of dangerous talents vain, Treat those of common parts with proud disdain. 2075 CRABBE: Patron, Line 229.

Though I am young, I scorn to flit On the wings of borrowed wit. 2076 GEORGE WITHER: The Shepherd's Hunting.

Witches.

Midnight hags, By force of potent spells, of bloody characters, And conjurations, horrible to hear, Call fiends and spectres from the yawning deep, And set the ministers of hell at work. 2077 ROWE: Jane Shore, Act iv., Sc. 1.

Woe.

But I have that within which passeth show; These but the trappings and the suits of woe. 2078 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes; They love a train, they tread each other's heel. 2079 YOUNG: Night Thoughts, Night iii., Line 63.

Chords that vibrate sweetest pleasure Thrill the deepest notes of woe. 2080 BURNS: Sweet Sensibility.

Wolf.

He's the symbol of hunger the whole earth through, His spectre sits at the door or cave, And the homeless hear with a thrill of fear The sound of his wind-swept voice on the air. 2081 HAMLIN GARLAND: The Gaunt Gray Wolf.

Woman.

Women are as roses; whose fair flower, Being once display'd, doth fall that very hour. 2082 SHAKS.: Tw. Night, Act ii., Sc. 4.

Honor to women! to them it is given To garden the earth with the roses of Heaven. 2083 SCHILLER: Honor to Women.

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote. 2084 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ix., Line 232.

O woman! lovely woman! Nature made thee To temper man; we had been brutes without you. 2085 OTWAY: Venice Preserved, Act i., Sc. 1.

Where is the man who has the power and skill To stem the torrent of a woman's will? For if she will, she will, you may depend on 't; And if she won't, she won't; so there's an end on 't. 2086 Copied from the pillar erected on the mount in the Dane John Field, Canterbury. [Examiner: May 31, 1829.]

And yet believe me, good as well as ill, Woman's at best a contradiction still. Heaven, when it strives to polish all it can Its last best work, but forms a softer man. 2087 POPE: Moral Essays, Epis. ii., Line 269.

Earth's noblest thing, a woman perfected. 2088 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Irene.

And whether coldness, pride, or virtue, dignify A woman; so she's good, what does it signify? 2089 BYRON: Don Juan, Canto xiv., St. 57.

Oh, woman! in our hours of ease, Uncertain, coy, and hard to please, And variable as the shade By the light quivering aspen made; When pain and anguish wring the brow, A ministering angel thou! 2090 SCOTT: Marmion, Canto vi., St. 30.

The woman that deliberates is lost. 2091 ADDISON: Cato, Act iv., Sc. 1.

A woman mixed of such fine elements That were all virtue and religion dead She'd make them newly, being what she was. 2092 GEORGE ELIOT: The Spanish Gypsy, Bk. ii.

Till we are built like angels, with hammer, and chisel, and pen, We will work for ourselves and a woman, for ever and ever, Amen. 2093 RUDYARD KIPLING: An Imperial Rescript.

Wonder.

A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour! 2094 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto ii., St. 2.

Woodland.

Yon woodland, like a human mind, Has many a phase of dark and light; Now dim with shadows wandering blind, Now radiant with fair shapes of light. 2095 PAUL HAMILTON HAYNE: The Woodland.

Woodman.

Woodman, spare that tree! Touch not a single bough! In youth it sheltered me, And I'll protect it now. 2096 GEORGE P. MORRIS: Woodman, Spare that Tree.

Woods.

Fresh gales and gentle airs Whisper'd it to the woods, and from their wings Flung rose, flung odors from the spicy shrub. 2097 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. viii., Line 508.

Words.

'Tis well said again, And 'tis a kind of good deed to say well: And yet words are no deeds. 2098 SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts, never to heaven go. 2099 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 3.

Apt words have power to 'suage The tumors of a troubled mind; And are as balm to fester'd wounds. 2100 MILTON: Samson Agonistes, Line 184.

Our words have wings, but fly not where we would. 2101 GEORGE ELIOT: Spanish Gypsy, Bk. iii.

Words, however, are things. 2102 OWEN MEREDITH: Lucile, Pt. i., Canto ii., St. 6.

Wordsworth.

Time may restore us in his course Goethe's sage mind and Byron's force; But where will Europe's latter hour Again find Wordsworth's healing power? 2103 MATTHEW ARNOLD: Memorial Verses.

Work.

Free men freely work: Whoever fears God, fears to sit at ease. 2104 MRS. BROWNING: Aurora Leigh, Bk. viii., Line 752.

Men must work, and women must weep. 2105 CHARLES KINGSLEY: The Three Fishers.

World.

Why, then, the world's mine oyster, Which I with sword will open. 2106 SHAKS.: Mer. W. of W., Act ii., Sc. 2.

You have too much respect upon the world: They lose it that do buy it with much care. 2107 SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act i., Sc. 1.

Fast by hanging in a golden chain, This pendent world, in bigness as a star. 2108 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. ii., Line 1051.

This world is all a fleeting show, For man's illusion given; The smiles of joy, the tears of woe, Deceitful shine, deceitful flow— There 's nothing true but Heaven. 2109 MOORE: This World is all a Fleeting Show.

I have not loved the world, nor the world me. 2110 BYRON: Ch. Harold, Canto iii., St. 113.

Worm.

The smallest worm will turn, being trodden on. 2111 SHAKS.: 3 Henry VI., Act ii., Sc. 2.

Worship.

There may be worship without words. 2112 LONGFELLOW: My Cathedral.

Worth.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow; The rest is all but leather or prunella. 2113 POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 203.

Wounds.

Give me another horse: bind up my wounds. 2114 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act v., Sc. 3.

Willing to wound, and yet afraid to strike. 2115 POPE: Prol. to the Satires, Line 201.

Wrath.

Come not within the measure of my wrath. 2116 SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act v., Sc. 4.

Achilles' wrath, to Greece the direful spring Of woes unnumber'd, heavenly goddess, sing! 2117 POPE: Iliad, Bk. i., Line 1.

Wreaths.

Now are our brows bound with victorious wreaths, Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. 2118 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 1.

Wrecks.

Methought I saw a thousand fearful wrecks, Ten thousand men that fishes gnawed upon. 2119 SHAKS.: Richard III., Act i., Sc. 4.

Wretch.

A needy, hollow-eyed, sharp-looking wretch, A living dead man. 2120 SHAKS.: Com. of Errors, Act v., Sc. 1.

Writing.

You write with ease to show your breeding, But easy writing's curs'd hard reading. 2121 SHERIDAN: Clio's Prot.

Of all those arts in which the wise excel, Nature's chief masterpiece is writing well. 2122 SHEFFIELD, DUKE OF BUCKINGHAMSHIRE: Essay on Poetry.

Wrong.

Behold on wrong Swift vengeance waits; and art subdues the strong! 2123 POPE: Odyssey, Bk. viii., Line 367.

Wrongs unredressed, or insults unavenged. 2124 WORDSWORTH: Excursion, Bk. iii.



X.

Xerxes.

Xerxes did die, And so must I. 2125 From the New England Primer.



Y.

Years.

Jumping o'er times, Turning the accomplishment of many years Into an hourglass. 2126 SHAKS.: Henry V., Act i., Chorus.

Years following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. 2127 POPE: Satire vi., Line 72.

I sigh not over vanished years, But watch the years that hasten by. Look, how they come,—a mingled crowd Of bright and dark, but rapid days. 2128 WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT: Lapse of Time.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain. 2129 DRYDEN: Aurengzebe, Act iv., Sc. 1.

Yesterday.

Oh, call back yesterday, bid time return! 2130 SHAKS.: Richard II., Act iii., Sc. 2.

Yew-Tree.

Old yew, which graspest at the stones That name the underlying dead, Thy fibres net the dreamless head, Thy roots are wrapt about the bones. 2131 TENNYSON: In Memoriam, Pt. ii., St. 1.

Youth.

For youth no less becomes The light and careless livery that it wears, Than settled age his sables, and his weeds, Importing health and graveness. 2132 SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 7.

Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits. 2133 SHAKS.: Two Gent. of V., Act i., Sc. 1.

Youth! youth! how buoyant are thy hopes! they turn, Like marigolds, toward the sunny side. 2134 JEAN INGELOW: Four Bridges, St. 56.

How beautiful is youth! how bright it gleams With its illusions, aspirations, dreams! 2135 LONGFELLOW: Morituri Salutamus.

In gallant trim the gilded vessel goes, Youth on the prow, and Pleasure at the helm. 2136 GRAY: Bard, Pt. ii., St. 2, Line 9.



Z.

Zeal.

Had I but served my God with half the zeal I served my king, he would not in mine age Have left me naked to mine enemies. 2137 SHAKS.: Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

His zeal None seconded, as out of season judg'd, Or singular and rash. 2138 MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. v., Line 849.



INDEX TO AUTHORS.

The references which follow the Chronological Data are the numbers of the Quotations in consecutive order from the respective Authors under which they are placed.

Addison, Joseph. b. Milston, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; d. London, Eng., 1719. —50, 393, 556, 629, 700, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, 1078, 1583, 1814, 2091.

Akenside, Mark. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 1770. —1865, 1938.

Aldrich, James. b. New York, 1810; d 1856. —1481.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1836; d. 1907. —238, 407, 771, 2009.

Allen, Elizabeth Akers. b. Strong, Me., 1832; .... —313.

Armstrong, John. b. Liddesdale, Eng, 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779. —1864.

Arnold, Sir Edwin. b. London, 1832; d. 1904. —498.

Arnold, Matthew. b. Laleham, Middlesex, Eng., 1822; d. Eng, 1888. —1537, 2103.

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. b. Fifeshire, 1813; d. 1865. —1735.

Bailey, Philip James. b. Nottingham, Eng, 1816; d. 1902. —43, 79, 322, 531, 614, 746, 967, 1349, 1770, 1833.

Baillie, Joanna. b. Lanarkshire, Scot, 1762; d. Hampstead, Eng., 1851. —198.

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1743; d. 1825. —782, 1717, 2032.

Barrington, George. b. Maynooth, Ireland, 1755; d. New South Wales at a great age. —413.

Barry, Michael J. Circa 1815. —1340.

Baxter, Richard. b. Rowdon, Shropshire, Eng., 1615; d. 1691. —1375.

Bayly, Thomas Haynes. b. near Bath, Eng., 1797; d. 1839. —218, 1335.

Beattie, James. b. Laurencekirk Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, Scot., 1803. —60, 485, 670, 837.

Beaumont and Fletcher. Beaumont, Francis. b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1586; d. 1615. Fletcher, John. b. Rye, Eng., 1576; d. London, Eng., 1625. —19, 22, 204, 408, 559, 598, 1154, 1231, 1568, 1861, 1917, 2042.

Benserade, Isaac de. b. in Upper Normandy, 1612; d. 1691. —164.

Blair, Robert. b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1699; d. Athelstaneford, Scot., 1747. —85, 819, 836, 1651.

Booth, Barton. b. Lancashire, Eng, 1681; d. 1733. —1354.

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. b. Fredericksvern, Norway, 1848; d. 1895. —1028, 1162.

Bramston, James. b. England; d. 1744. —875.

Brown, John. b. England, 1715; d. 1766. —49, 431.

Brown, Tom. b. Shropshire, Eng., 1663; d. 1704. —562.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. b. London, Eng., 1809; d. Florence, Italy, 1861. —160, 196, 650, 778, 848, 887, 1006, 1039, 1073, 1296, 1373, 1659, 1709, 1733, 1968, 2104.

Browning, Robert. b. Camberwell, Eng., 1812; d. 1889. —65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123, 1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 1351, 1450, 1667, 1710, 1822, 1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1967.

Bryant, William Cullen. b. Cummington, Mass., 1794; d. New York, 1878. —234, 240, 317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906, 1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 1604, 1663, 1793, 1819, 1951, 1962, 2055, 2063, 2128.

Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton [Baron Lytton]. b. London, Eng., 1803; d. Torquay, France, 1873. —1323.

Bunn, Alfred. b. England; d. 1860. —888.

Bunyan, John. b. Elstow, Eng., 1628; d. London, Eng., 1688. —664, 1383.

Burns, Robert. b. Ayr, Scot., 1759; d. Dumfries, Scot., 1796. —20, 208, 222, 242, 552, 588, 592, 604, 694, 773, 783, 954, 964, 986, 1080, 1095, 1106, 1109, 1129, 1147, 1193, 1345, 1435, 1588, 1599, 1600, 1642, 1704, 2047, 2080.

Butler, Samuel. b. Worcestershire, Eng., 1612; d. London, Eng., 1680. —39, 153, 236, 303, 305, 405, 423, 549, 566, 574, 615, 799, 972, 992, 1014, 1110, 1209, 1271, 1284, 1334, 1347, 1394, 1405, 1449, 1496, 1504, 1510, 1557, 1585, 1682, 1705, 1811, 1852, 1858, 1886, 1932, 2019.

Byron, George Gordon, Lord. b. London, Eng., 1788; d. Missolonghi, Greece, 1824. —31, 59, 62, 116, 133, 148, 169, 176, 209, 315, 351, 352, 354, 368, 388, 419, 451, 460, 469, 470, 486, 506, 511, 534, 537, 553, 582, 594, 612, 619, 651, 677, 734, 748, 751, 787, 813, 841, 842, 843, 850, 878, 879, 898, 908, 910, 995, 1059, 1075, 1087, 1115, 1131, 1133, 1166, 1221, 1229, 1232, 1251, 1275, 1303, 1337, 1391, 1407, 1419, 1442, 1498, 1506, 1522, 1529, 1538, 1556, 1563, 1573, 1575, 1580, 1596, 1601, 1620, 1621, 1625, 1668, 1672, 1679, 1686, 1688, 1716, 1718, 1731, 1751, 1792, 1794, 1818, 1847, 1851, 1862, 1884, 1897, 1910, 1920, 1935, 1979, 1993, 1994, 2018, 2025, 2029, 2031, 2059, 2089, 2094, 2110.

Campbell, Thomas. b. Glasgow, Scot., 1777; d. Boulogne, France, 1844. —142, 149, 359, 570, 715, 723, 933, 1243, 1390, 1541, 1584, 1593, 1694, 1703, 1741, 1877.

Canning, George. b. London, Eng., 1770; d. Cheswick, Eng., 1827. —729.

Carey, Henry. b. 1663; d. Coldbath-Fields, Eng., 1743. —349.

Carlyle, Thomas. b. Ecclefechan, Scot., 1795; d. Chelsea, near London, Eng., 1881. —1090, 1150.

Cary, Alice. b. near Cincinnati, O., 1820; d. New York City, 1871. —536, 1262.

Cary, Phoebe. b. near Cincinnati, O., 1824; d. New York City, 1871. —646.

Chapman, George. b. Hitchin, Eng, 1557; d. London, Eng., 1634. —658.

Chatterton, Thomas. b. Bristol, Eng, 1752; d. London, Eng., 1770. —1136.

Chaucer, Geoffrey. b. London, Eng., 1328; d. 1400. —40, 104, 1647, 1853, 1960, 2072.

Chorley, Henry Fothergill. b. 1808; d. 1872. —1268.

Churchill, Charles. b. Westminster, Eng., 1731; d. Boulogne, France, 1764. —98, 100, 135, 530, 698, 703, 874, 978, 1713, 1749.

Clemmer, Mary. b. Utica, N.Y., 1839; d. 1884. —676.

Coleridge, Samuel Taylor. b. Devonshire, Eng., 1772; d. London, Eng., 1834. —71, 143, 282, 395, 465, 484, 599, 708, 728, 979, 1138, 1227, 1336, 1372, 1379, 1431, 1473, 1507, 1561, 1673.

Collins, William. b. Chichester, Eng., 1720; d. Chichester, Eng., 1756. —227, 928, 1035, 1239.

Colman, George [the younger]. b. 1762; d. London, Eng., 1836. —971.

Congreve, William. b. Bardsey, Eng., 1670; d. London, Eng., 1729. —185, 775, 1237, 1867, 1926.

Cook, Eliza. b. London, Eng., 1817; d. 1889. —1747.

"Cornwall, Barry." See PROCTER, BRYAN WALLER.

Cowley, Abraham. b. London, Eng., 1618, d. Chertsey, Eng., 1667. —479, 786.

Cowper, William. b. Great Berkhamstead, Hertfordshire, Eng., 1731; d. 1800. —30, 102, 146, 175, 365, 403, 412, 586, 591, 656, 739, 762, 868, 889, 914, 960, 1036, 1079, 1201, 1393, 1401, 1404, 1437, 1466, 1475, 1571, 1637, 1723, 1752, 1759, 1799, 1916, 1931, 1937, 1965, 1988, 1990, 2004, 2024, 2049.

Crabbe, George. b. Aldborough, Eng., 1754; d. Trowbridge, Eng., 1832. —44, 205, 330, 379, 428, 1382, 1412, 1515, 1576, 1617, 1702, 1880, 2075.

Cranch, Christopher Pearse. b. Alexandria, Va., 1813; d. 1892. —1903.

Crashaw, Richard. b. London, Eng., about 1616; d. Italy, about 1650. —541, 814.

Croly, George. b. Dublin, Ireland, 1780; d. 1860. —1261.

Dana, Richard Henry. b. Cambridge, Mass., 1787; d. Boston, Mass., 1878. —1773.

Dante, Alighieri. b. Florence, Italy, 1265; d. Ravenna, 1321. —936.

Darwin, Erasmus. b. Newark, Eng., 1731; d. Derby, Eng., 1802. —1168.

Defoe, Daniel. b. London, Eng., 1661; d. London, Eng., 1731. —384, 1300.

De L'Isle, Joseph Rouget. b. Lons-le Saunice, France, 1760; d. 1836. —807.

Dickens, Charles. b. Landport, near Portsmouth, Eng., 1812; d. Gadshill, near Rochester, Eng., 1870. —997.

Donne, John, D.D. b. London, Eng., 1573; d. London, Eng., 1631. —1821.

Dorr, Julia Caroline Ripley. b. Charleston, S.C., 1825; .... —1493, 1830.

Drake, Joseph Rodman. b. New York City, 1795; d. New York City, 1820. —714, 761.

Dryden, John. b. Aldwinkle, Eng., 1631; d. London, Eng., 1701. —158, 226, 252, 337, 344, 504, 680, 776, 790, 858, 860, 871, 884, 1179, 1234, 1299, 1346, 1358, 1362, 1365, 1425, 1460, 1549, 1577, 1610, 1764, 1772, 1836, 1909, 1921, 1948, 1964, 1984, 2043, 2074, 2129.

Dwight, Timothy. b. Northampton, Mass., 1752; d. New Haven, Conn., 1817. —357.

Dyer, Sir Edward, b. Sharpham, near Glastonbury, circa 1540; d. 1607. —331, 1190.

Dyer, John. b. 1700; d. 1758. —1053.

Eliot, George [Marian Evans Cross], b. Warwickshire, Eng., 1820; d. London, Eng., 1880. —862, 1091, 1256, 1276, 1350, 1478, 1534, 1779, 1832, 1944, 1992, 2092, 2101.

Elliott, Ebenezer. b. Masborough, Eng., 1781; d. near Barnsley, Eng., 1849. —1046.

Emerson, Ralph Waldo. b. Boston, Mass., 1803; d. Concord, Mass., 1882. —105, 161, 191, 239, 247, 249, 448, 605, 759, 765, 791, 817, 944, 1428, 1648, 1678, 1748.

Everett, Edward. b. Dorchester, Mass., 1794; d. 1865. —912.

Faber, Frederick William. b. Durham, Eng., 1814; d. Brompton, Eng., 1863. —1516.

Falconer, William. b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1732; shipwrecked near Cape Good Hope, 1769. —1059, 1675.

Fenner, Cornelius G. b. 1822; d. 1847. —1609.

Fielding, Henry. b. Sharpham Park, Eng., 1707; d. Lisbon, Spain, 1754. —1330.

Fields, James Thomas. b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1817; d. 1881. —420.

Finch, Francis M. b. Ithaca, N.Y., 1827; .... —1878.

Fletcher, John. b. Northhamptonshire, Eng., 1576; d. 1625. —1304, 1655.

Ford, John. b. Islington, Eng., 1586; d. circa 1639. —1159.

Franklin, Benjamin. ["Richard Saunders"]. b. Boston, Mass., 1706; d. Philadelphia, Penn., 1790. —281.

Garland, Hamlin. b. West Salem, Wis., 1860; .... —346, 1230, 1761, 2081.

Garrick, David. b. Lichfield, Eng, 1716; d. London, Eng., 1779. —406, 1724.

Garth, Sir Samuel. b. Bolam, Eng., circa 1670; d. London, Eng., 1718. —1395.

Gay, John. b. near Barnstaple Eng., 1688; d. London, Eng., 1732. —32, 124, 620, 642, 730, 781, 883, 952, 1416, 1434, 1452, 1562, 1608, 1677.

Gifford, Richard. b. 1725; d. North Okendon, Eng., 1807. —1997.

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von. b. Frankfort-on-the-Main, Germany, 1749; d. Weimar, Germany, 1832. —192.

Goldsmith, Oliver. b. Pallis, Ireland, 1728; d. London, Eng., 1774. —35, 58, 107, 189, 340, 341, 342, 345, 364, 466, 517, 639, 695, 707, 710, 733, 788, 849, 901, 1063, 1107, 1114, 1137, 1297, 1339, 1487, 1495, 1589, 1591, 1742, 1750, 1756, 1934, 1939, 2003, 2064.

Gould, Hannah Flagg. b. Lancaster, Vt., 1789; d. Newburyport, Mass, 1865. —1553.

Gray, Thomas. b. London, Eng., 1716; d. Cambridge, Eng., 1771. —103, 193, 216, 378, 382, 385, 443, 450, 613, 624, 704, 716, 720, 789, 832, 833, 863, 963, 1041, 1141, 1174, 1687, 1892, 1924, 2056, 2136.

Green, Matthew. b. London (?), Eng., 1696; d. 1737. —369.

Greene, Robert. b. Norwich (?), circa 1560; d. near Dowgate, Eng., 1592. —1105.

Halleck, Fitz-Greene. b. Guilford, Conn., 1770; d. Guilford, Conn., 1867. —493, 904, 1313, 1973.

Halpine, Charles Grahame ["Miles O'Reilly"], b. Oldcastle, Meath, Ireland, 1829; d. New York City, 1868. —756.

Harrington, Sir John. b. near Bath, Eng, circa 1561; d. 1612. —1947.

Harte, Francis Bret. b. Albany, N.Y., 1839; d. London, Eng., 1902. —433, 1306, 1739.

Havergal, Frances Ridley. b. Worcestershire, Eng., 1836; d. Swansea, Eng., 1879. —326.

Hay, John. b. Salem, Ind., 1838; d. 1905. —1367.

Hayne, Paul Hamilton. b. Charleston, S.C., 1831: d. 1886. —2095.

Heber, Reginald. b. Cheshire, Eng., 1783; d. Trichinopoly, India, 1826. —501, 934, 1295.

Hemans, Felicia Dorothea. b. Liverpool, Eng, 1793; d. Dublin, Ireland, 1835. —496, 717, 907, 1683, 1776.

Herbert, George. b. in Montgomery Castle, Wales, 1593; d. Bemerton, Wales, 1632. —24, 199, 250, 602, 687, 784, 1083, 1145, 1348, 1467, 1842, 1849, 1963, 2073.

Herrick, Robert. b. London, Eng., 1591; d. Dean Prior, Eng., 1674. —11, 42, 280, 461, 699, 1697, 1791, 1872, 1914, 1978, 1985.

Heywood, Thomas. b. Lincolnshire, Eng., 1570; d. 1649. —28, 920.

Hogg, James. b. Ettrick Forest, Scot., 1772; d. 1835. —801.

Holmes, Oliver Wendell. b. Cambridge, Mass., 1809; d. 1894. —233, 618, 649, 929, 1241, 1307, 1314, 1440, 1547, 1550, 1800.

Home, John. b. Ancrum, Scot., 1724; d. 1808. —265.

Hood, Thomas. b. London, Eng., 1798-9; d. London, Eng., 1845. —131, 229, 298, 463, 533, 583, 867, 1208, 1282, 1414, 1438, 1472, 1652, 1695, 1788, 1904.

Hopkinson, Joseph. b. Philadelphia, Penn., 1770; d. 1842. —976.

Howe, Julia Ward. b. New York, 1819; .... —320.

Hunt, Helen [Mrs. Jackson]. b. Amherst, Mass., 1831; d. San Francisco, Cal., 1885. —130, 1156, 1167.

Hunt, James Henry Leigh. b. Southgate, near London, Eng., 1784; d. 1859. —1613.

Hutchinson, Ellen Mackay. —1640.

Ingelow, Jean. b. Ipswich Eng., 1830; d. 1897. —9, 180, 669, 1121, 1760, 2134.

Jefferys, Charles. b. 1807; d. 1865. —231, 245.

Johnson, Dr. Samuel. b. Lichfield, Eng., 1709; d. London, Eng., 1784. —132, 580, 590, 768, 815, 857, 945, 965, 989, 1003, 1111, 1940, 2037.

Jones, Sir William. b. London, Eng., 1746; d. India, 1794. —1064, 1322.

Jonson, Ben. b. London, Eng., 1573-4; d. London, Eng., 1637. —267, 548, 828, 1016, 1102, 1210, 1508, 1616, 1658, 1986.

Keats, John. b. London, Eng., 1795; d. Rome, Italy, 1821. —127, 159, 919, 1130, 1236, 1267, 1352, 1433, 1535, 1730, 1969.

Keble, John. b. Coln-St.-Aldwynds, Eng., circa 1792; d. Bournemouth, Eng., 1866. —1298.

Kemble, Frances Anne. b. London, Eng., 1811; d. 1893. —248.

Kingsley, Charles. b. Devonshire, Eng., 1819; d. Eversley, Eng., 1875. —15, 277, 290, 348, 516, 785, 823, 1031, 1161, 1360, 1519, 2105.

Kipling, Rudyard. b. Bombay, India, 1865; .... —744, 2093.

Lamb, Charles. b. London, Eng., 1775; d. London, Eng., 1834. —311.

Landor, Walter Savage. b. Ipsley Court, Warwickshire, Eng., 1775; d. Florence, Italy, 1864. —263, 688.

Landsdowne, Lord [George Granville]. b. Bideford, Eng., 1667; d. London, Eng., 1735. —835.

Larcom, Lucy. b. Beverly Farms, Mass., 1826, d. 1893. —840.

Lee, Nathaniel. b. England, 1655; d. London, Eng., 1692. —844.

Linley, George. b. London, Eng., 1798; d. France, 1865. —7, 1178.

Lofft, Capel. b. London, Eng., 1751, d. France, 1824. —53.

Logan, John. b. Soutra, Scot., 1748, d. 1788. —366.

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth. b. Portland, Me., 1807, d. Cambridge, Mass., 1882. —110, 141, 150, 177, 307, 321, 499, 632, 654, 738, 742, 780, 796, 942, 948, 1017, 1045, 1055, 1074, 1089, 1261, 1302, 1311, 1316, 1427, 1551, 1603, 1633, 1734, 1806, 1831, 1887, 1889, 2026, 2053, 2112, 2135.

Lovelace, Richard. b. Woolwich, Eng., 1618; d. London, Eng., 1658. —144, 1384.

Lover, Samuel. b. Dublin, Ireland, 1797; d. 1868. —1483.

Lowe, John. b. 1750; d. 1798. —1217.

Lowell, James Russell. b. Cambridge, Mass., 1819; d. 1891. —304, 323, 335, 391, 503, 514, 611, 635, 810, 1012, 1054, 1226, 1420, 1923, 1970, 2088.

Lowell, Maria White. b. Watertown, Mass., 1821; d. 1853. —1981.

Lowth, Robert. b. Winchester, Eng., 1710; d. 1787. —1403.

Lyly, John. b. Kent Eng., circa 1553; d. circa 1600. —2060.

Macaulay, Thomas Babington. b. Rothley Temple, Eng., 1800; d. Kensington, London, Eng., 1859. —495.

Macdonald, George. b. Huntley, Scot., 1824; d. 1905. —2054.

Marlowe, Christopher. b. Canterbury, Eng., 1565; d. Deptford, Eng., 1593. —213, 1511, 1518, 1670.

Martial [Marcus Valerius Martialis]. b. Bilbilis, Spain, 43; d. Bilbilis, Spain, 104. —505.

Massinger, Philip. b. near Wilton, Eng., 1584; d. on the Bankside, 1639-40. —1411, 1817.

Mee, William. —675.

"Meredith, Owen" [Lord Edward Robert Bulwer Lytton], b. Herts, Eng, 1831; d. 1891. —225, 540, 645, 866, 981, 1000, 1127, 1245, 1491, 1900, 2102.

Mickle, William Julius. b. Dumfriesshire, Scot., 1734; d. 1788. —946.

Middleton, Thomas. d. 1626. —16, 134, 1502.

Miller, "Joaquin" Cincinnatus Hiner. b. Indiana, 1840; .... —371, 477, 647, 1030, 1185, 1828.

Milnes, Richard Monckton [Lord Houghton]. b. Yorkshire, Eng., 1809; d. 1885. —890, 2041.

Milton, John. b. London, Eng., 1608; d. London, Eng., 1674. —1, 4, 18, 68, 77, 78, 80, 90, 112, 117, 120, 157, 170, 186, 187, 207, 275, 284, 288, 300, 312, 336, 356, 360, 373, 381, 383, 387, 397, 416, 429, 441, 445, 456, 468, 492, 515, 518, 520, 526, 539, 551, 563, 576, 595, 597, 600, 607, 608, 610, 628, 631, 634, 652, 667, 696, 701, 711, 712, 735, 740, 770, 797, 802, 804, 809, 847, 877, 880, 892, 895, 896, 931, 935, 956, 982, 991, 1001, 1018, 1025, 1037, 1052, 1057, 1060, 1077, 1081, 1085, 1094, 1100, 1160, 1169, 1173, 1184, 1187, 1192, 1213, 1215, 1220, 1248, 1255, 1260, 1287, 1310, 1320, 1325, 1331, 1371, 1380, 1397, 1399, 1402, 1406, 1421, 1439, 1447, 1454, 1494, 1497, 1500, 1505, 1509, 1512, 1525, 1569, 1597, 1611, 1612, 1628, 1650, 1654, 1660, 1661, 1665, 1693, 1740, 1758, 1777, 1783, 1840, 1844, 1873, 1906, 1908, 1919, 1936, 1949, 1975, 1999, 2013, 2015, 2020, 2034, 2035, 2038, 2046, 2069, 2084, 2097, 2100, 2108, 2138.

Montagu, Lady Mary Wortley. b. London, Eng., circa 1690; d. London, Eng., 1762. —585.

Montgomery, James. b. Irvine, Scot., 1771; d. Sheffield, Eng., 1854. —232, 1008, 1258, 1582.

Moore, Clement C. b. New York, 1779; d. 1863. —328.

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Noel, Thomas. —202.

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O'Hara, Theodore. b. 1820; d. 1867. —181.

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Poe, Edgar Allan. b. Boston, Mass., 1809; d. Baltimore, Md., 1849. —173, 1531.

Pollock, Robert. b. Eaglesham, Scot., 1799; d. Shirley Common, Eng., 1827. —957, 1721.

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Porteus, Beilby. b. York, Eng., 1731; d. 1808. —438.

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Sheridan, Richard Brinsley Butler. b. Dublin, Ireland, 1751; d. London. Eng., 1816. —2121.

Shirley, James. b. London, Eng, 1594; d. London, Eng., 1666. —23.

Sidney, Sir Philip. b. Penshurst, Eng., 1554; d. Arnheim, Holland, 1586. —1728.

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Sprague, Charles. b. Boston, Mass., 1791; d. Boston, Mass., 1875. —1249.

Stedman, Edmund Clarence. b. Hartford, Conn., 1833; .... —296, 625, 1639.

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INDEX TO QUOTATIONS

The references designate the numbers of the Quotations.

Abbots, purple as their wines, 2.

Abdiel, so spake the seraph, 4.

Absence conquers love, 10. of occupation is not rest, 960. whole years in, to deplore, 8.

Abstinence, the defensive virtue, 11.

Abyss, beyond is all, 628.

Accident, by many a happy, 16. the unthought-on, 13.

Accidents by flood and field, 14. our wanton, take root, 15.

Account, sent to my, 17.

Accounts, draw the, of evil, 388.

Acquaintance, should auld, be forgot, 20.

Acting of a dreadful thing, 437.

Action, of every noble, the intent, 22. pleasure and, make the hours seem short, 21.

Actions of the just, 23.

Acts, our, our angels are, 1655.

Adam dolve and Eve span, 793. the goodliest man, 631. whipped the offending, 389.

Adieu, my native shore, 31. she cried, 32.

Admiration, season your, for a while, 33.

Adorning with so much art, 479.

Adversary, a stony, 446.

Adversite, fortunes sharpe, 40.

Adversity, bruised with, 38. sweet are the uses of, 37.

Advice, danger to give, to kings, 42. 't was good, 44 worst men often give the best, 43.

Affectation, with a sickly mien, 45.

Affection is a coal that must be cooled, 47.

Affliction is enamored of thy parts. 255. is the good man's shining scene, 48. tries our virtue, 49.

Affliction's sons are brothers in distress, 242.

Affronts, young men soon give, 50.

Age cannot wither her, 55. I must not tell my, 58. rock the cradle of, 432. when, is in, wit is out, 51.

Agent, trust no, 279.

Ages, alike all, 466.

Aim, failed in the high, 65.

Air, the, a chartered libertine, 66.

Alacrity in sinking, 67.

Ale, drink of Adam's, 69. the spicy nut-brown, 68.

Alexandrine, a needless, 70.

Alone on a wide sea, 71.

Amazement on thy mother sits, 72.

Amber, to observe the forms in, 73.

Ambition finds such joy, 78. fling away, 74. has but one reward, 76. to reign is worth, 77. which o'erleaps itself, 75.

America, half brother of the world, 79.

Anarch, thy hand, great, 478.

Anarchy, hold eternal, 80.

Ancient of days, 116.

Angels come and go, 84. lackey her, 300. where, fear to tread, 83.

Angels' visits, short and far between, 85.

Anger never made good guard, 87.

Anger's my meat, 86.

Angling, the pleasantest, 88. wagered on your, 89.

Anna, here thou, great, 411.

Antiquity, ways of hoar, 92.

Apathy, in lazy, 93.

Apollo's laurel bough, 213.

Apostles would have done, 176.

Apostolic blows and knocks, 574.

Apparel, fashion wears out more, 678. oft proclaims the man, 94.

Apparition, a lovely, 527.

Apparitions, like, seen and gone, 95.

Appearances to save, his only care, 98.

Appetite, good digestion wait on, 99. grown by what it fed on, 46. stands cook, 100.

Applaud to the very echo, 101.

Applause, attentive to his own, 276. of listening senates, 103. oh, popular, 102.

Apples, since Eve ate, 553. small choice in rotten, 316.

April cold with dropping rain, 105.

Aprile has fairly come, 106.

Aprille, with his shoures sote, 104.

Arabs, fold their tents like the, 1889.

Arch, look on its broken, 1716.

Arguing, in, the parson owned his skill, 107.

Argument, height of this great, 1399.

Arms on armor clashing, 381.

Arrow, shot mine, o'er the house, 241. swifter than, 1845.

Art is the child of Nature, 110. Nature is but, 289. O man, is thine alone, 109.

Artist, in framing an, 111.

Aspect, with grave, he rose, 112.

Aspiration lifts him from the earth, 113.

Assurance double sure, I'll make, 114.

Asters, purple, nod, 130.

Atheist, by night an, half believes a God, 115.

Athena, august, 116.

Athens, the eye of Greece, 117

Attachment to the well-known place, 914.

Attempt and not the deed, 118.

Auburn, sweet, 2003.

August round her precious gifts is flinging, 121.

Aurora, fair daughter of the dawn, 122.

Author, no, ever spared a brother, 124.

Authority, drest in a little brief, 126.

Authors steal their works, 123.

Autumn in the misty morn, 131. succeeds, a sober, tepid age, 1610. who may paint thee, 128. wins you best, 129.