Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Wherein I spake of most disastrous chances, Of moving accidents by flood and field. 14 SHAKS.:  Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God’s laws.
15
CHARLES KINGSLEY:  Saints’ Tragedy, Act ii., Sc. 4.

By many a happy accident.
16
MIDDLETON:  No Wit, No Help, Like a Woman’s, Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Account.=

No reckoning made, but sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.
17
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 5.

=Accusation.=

Accuse not Nature:  she hath done her part;
Do thou but thine.
18
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. viii., Line 561.

=Achievements.=

Great things thro’ greatest hazards are achiev’d,
And then they shine.
19
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:  Loyal Subject, Act i., Sc. 5.

=Acquaintance.=

Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
  And never brought to mind? 
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
  And days o’ lang syne?
20
BURNS:  Auld Lang Syne.

=Action.=

Pleasure and action make the hours seem short. 21 SHAKS.:  Othello, Act ii., Sc. 3.

Of every noble action, the intent
Is to give worth reward—­vice punishment.
22
BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER:  Captain, Act v., Sc. 5.

Only the actions of the just
Smell sweet and blossom in their dust.
23
JAMES SHIRLEY:  Death’s Final Conquest, Sc. iii.

Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
  Makes that and th’ action fine.
24
HERBERT:  The Elixir.

=Activity.=

If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly.
25
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act i., Sc. 7.

Wise men ne’er sit and wail their loss, But cheerly seek how to redress their harms. 26 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 4.

=Actors.=

A strutting player,—­whose conceit
Lies in his hamstring, and doth think it rich
To hear the wooden dialogue and sound
’Twixt his stretched footing and the scaffoldage.
27
SHAKS.:  Troil. and Cress., Act i., Sc. 3.

The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
28
THOMAS HEYWOOD:  Apology for Actors.

=Adaptability.=

All things are ready, if our minds be so. 29 SHAKS.:  Henry V., Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Address.=

And the tear that is wiped with a little address
  May be follow’d perhaps by a smile.
30
COWPER:  The Rose.

=Adieu.=

Adieu, adieu! my native shore
  Fades o’er the waters blue.
31
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto i., St. 13.

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand. 32 GAY:  Sweet William’s Farewell to Black-eyed Susan.

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