The good he scorn’d
Stalk’d off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost,
Not to return; or if it did, in visits
Like those of angels, short and far between.
85
BLAIR:  The Grave, Pt. ii., Line 586.

=Anger.=

Anger’s my meat; I sup upon myself,
And so shall starve with feeding.
86
SHAKS.:  Coriolanus, Act iv., Sc. 2.

Never anger made good guard for itself. 87 SHAKS.:  Ant. and Cleo., Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Angling.=

The pleasant’st angling is to see the fish
Cut with her golden oars the silver stream,
And greedily devour the treacherous bait.
88
SHAKS.:  Much Ado, Act iii., Sc. 1.

’Twas merry when
You wager’d on your angling; when your diver
Did hang a salt-fish on his hook, which he
With fervency drew up.
89
SHAKS.:  Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 5.

=Anticipation.=

Peace, brother, be not over-exquisite
To cast the fashion of uncertain evils;
For, grant they be so, while they rest unknown,
What need a man forestall his date of grief,
And run to meet what he would most avoid?
90
MILTON:  Comus, Line 359.

=Antiquity.=

O good old man! how well in thee appears
The constant service of the antique world,
When service sweat for duty, not for meed! 
Thou art not for the fashion of these times,
Where none will sweat, but for promotion.
91
SHAKS.:  As You Like It, Act ii., Sc. 3.

Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar antiquity, but strewn with flowers. 92 WARTON:  Written on a Blank Leaf of Dugdale’s Monasticon.

=Apathy.=

In lazy apathy let stoics boast
Their virtue fix’d; ’tis fixed as in a frost.
93
POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 101.

=Apparel.=

Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy,
But not expressed in fancy; rich, not gaudy: 
For the apparel oft proclaims the man.
94
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 3.

=Apparitions.=

How fading are the joys we dote upon! 
Like apparitions seen and gone.
95
JOHN NORRIS:  The Parting.

=Appeal.=

I have done the state some service, and they know it. 
No more of that; I pray you in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am, nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice.
96
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act v., Sc. 2.

=Appearances.=

All that glisters is not gold,
Gilded tombs do worms infold.
97
SHAKS.:  M. of Venice, Act ii., Sc. 7.

Appearances to save, his only care; So things seem right no matter what they are. 98 CHURCHILL:  Rosciad, Line 299.

=Appetite.=

Now good digestion wait on appetite,
And health on both.
99
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iii., Sc. 4.