44 ANIMALS. ANNOYANCE. ANIMALS-ANIMATE. NOBLER birth Of creatures animate with gradual life, Of growth, sense, reason, all summed up in man. Let cavillers deny Milton. That brutes have reason; sure 'tis something more, "Tis Heaven directs, and stratagems inspires, Beyond the short extent of human thought. The heart is hard in nature, and unfit Somerville. To love and friendship both, that is not pleased Nor feels their happiness augment his own.-Cowper. Though man, as God's own miniature, reveals And lash the ocean into storms! or mark ANNOYANCE. As he who long in populous cities pent, Adjoined, from each thing met conceives delight. Milton. The things we fear bring less annoy What then. remains last after past annoy, 45 Donne, Dryden. Woe to poor man! each outward thing annoys him; He heaps on inward grief what most destroys him. With thy clear keen joyance Shadow of annoyance Sidney. Never came near thee.-Shelley, to the Lark. ANTIC. WITHIN the hollow crown, That rounds the mortal temples of a king, Death keeps his court; and there the antic sits, Scoffing his state. What! dares the slave Shakspere. Come hither covered with an antic face, Shakspere. Scrambling, outfacing, fashion-mongering boys, That lie, and cog, and flout, deprave and slander, Go anticly, and shew an outward hideousness, And speak of half-a-dozen dangerous words. A work of rich entail, and curious mould, Of all our antic sights and pageantry, Shakspere. Spenser. Which English idiots run in crowds to see.-Dryden, For even at first reflection she espies That she retires, and shrinks for shame and fear. Davies. 46 ANTICIPATION. ANTIPATHY. ANTIQUARY. ANTICIPATION. TIME thou anticipat'st my dread exploits! Why should we Anticipate our sorrows? 'tis like those Shakspere. Denham. Her fancy follow'd him through foaming waves And dream of transports she was not to know.-Cowper. ANTIPATHY. SOME men there are love not a gaping pig; Ask you what provocation I have had? ANTIQUARY. ANTIQUITY. INSTRUCTED by the antiquary, time, Shakspere. Pope. He must, he is, he cannot but be wise.-Shakspere. They are the Registers the chronicles of the age They were made in, and speak the truth of history, Better than a hundred of your printed Communications. They say he sits All day in contemplation of a statue S. Marmyon. decays, With greater love than the self-loved Narcissus S. Marmyon. ANTIQUARY. A copper-plate, with almanacks What toil did honest Curio take, 47 Butler. 'Tis bought, locked up, and lies forgot!-Prior. My copper lamps at any rate, For being true antique I bought; Because they're old, because they're new. With sharpened sight pale antiquaries_pore; Prior. Pope. He shows on holidays a sacred pin, Young. Rare are the buttons of a Roman's breeches, Dr. Wolcot. I knew Anselmo. He was shrewd and prudent, That first was sung to please King Pepin's cradle. Name not those living death's-heads unto me, Scott. 48 ANTIQUARY. APPAREL. APATHY. And sooner shall a galling weather spy, He had a routh o' auld nick-nackets, And parritch-pats, and auld saut-backets, Must he no more divert the tedious day, Donne. Burns. Nor sparkling thoughts in antique words convey? Antiquity, the childhood of the world, Smith. Dulling its vigour into drowsy calm. R. Montgomery. APPAREL. COSTLY thy habit as thy purse can buy, Thy gown? why, ay:-come tailor let us see't. Why what, a'devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this? APATHY. OF good and evil much they argued then, In lazy apathy let stoics boast But strength of mind is exercise, not rest. Shakspere. Milton. Pope. |