14 ADDRESS. ADIEU. ADDRESS. HENRY, in knots involving Emma's name, They both beheld thee with their sister's eyes, Prior. Addison. Thrice happy he, who with a good address, But Oh! unhappy he, who not possessing The gift of fluently his thoughts expressing, Addresses him in vain to his addressing.-H. G. A. ADIEU. THEN came the parting hour, and what arise While now I take my last adieu, Heave thou no sigh, nor shed a tear; Lest yet my half-closed eye may view On earth an object worth its care. I never looked a last adieu To things familiar, but my heart Shrunk with a feeling almost pain, E'en from their lifelessness to part. Crabbe. Prior. Caroline Bowles. Vanish'd, like dew-drops from the spray, And, false one, breathe my last adieu! W. G. Clark. ADMONITION. ADORATION. 15 ADMONITION. WHAT could I more? I warn'd thee, I admonish'd thee, foretold That lay in wait; beyond this had been force, To the Infinitely Good we owe Immortal thanks, and His admonishment He of their wicked ways Shall them admonish, and before them set Milton. Milton. Milton. ADORATION. O ceremony! show me all thy worth! What is thy toll, O adoration! Art thou nought else but place, degree, and form, Creating awe and fear in other men? Wherein thou art less happy, being feared, Than they in fearing. What drink'st thou oft, instead of homage sweet, But poison'd flattery. I care not to be like the Horeb calf, Shakspere. One day adored, the next pasht all in pieces, Switzer's sloped greatness. I adore the sun, Old Play, 1601. True adoration! what a voice is thine! From earth it wanders through the heaven of heavens, There from the mercy-seat itself evokes An answer, thrilling the seraphic host With added glory of celestial song!-R. Montgomery. 16 ADORATION. ADORN. ADULATION. Happy is he who lives to understand Such converse, if directed by a meek, If that be not indeed the highest love!-Wordsworth. ADORN. Thousands there are in darker fame who dwell, It is not to adorn and gild each part, Her polish'd limbs Veil'd in a simple robe, their best attire, Dryden. Cowley. But is, when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.-Thomson. ADULATION. O BE sick, great Greatness! And bid thy ceremony give thee cure. Shakspere. Towards great persons use respective boldness, Feed no man in his sins; for adulation Doth make the parcel devil in damnation.-Herbert. SWEET are the uses of adversity, Wears yet a precious jewel in his head.-Shakspere. A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity, But were we burthened with like weight of pain, By adversity are wrought The greatest works of admiration, Shakspere. What, if he hath decreed that I shall first Daniel. Contempts, and scorns, and snares, and violence! Adversity, sage useful guest, Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Bound in thy adamantine chain, Milton. Somerville. With pangs unfelt before, unpitied, and alone. Thy form benign, Oh, Goddess! wear, Thy philosophic train be there, To soften, not to wound, my heart. The generous spark extinct revive; Teach me to love and to forgive; C * 18 ADVERSITY. ADVICE. Exact my own defects to scan, What others are, to feel, and know myself a man. Each breast, however fortified By courage, apathy, or pride, Gray. Mrs. Holford. ADVICE. LET me entreat You to unfold the anguish of your heart; Spenser. Know when to speak-for many times it brings Danger, to give the best advice to kings. Herrick. If things go wrong, each fool presumes t'advise, And that advice seems best which comes too late. Take sound advice, proceeding from a heart Sedley. Dryden. O troubled, weak, and coward as thou art! Prior. No part of conduct asks for skill more nice, Stillingfleet. |