His thirst he slakes at some pure neighboring brook, Nor seeks for sauce where appetite stands cook. 100 CHURCHILL:  Gotham, iii., Line 133.

=Applause.=

I would applaud thee to the very echo,
That should applaud again.
101
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act v., Sc. 3

Oh popular applause! what heart of man Is proof against thy sweet, seducing charms? 102 COWPER:  Task, Bk. ii., Line 481.

The applause of list’ning senates to command. 103 GRAY:  Elegy, St. 16

=April.=

Whanne that Aprille with his shoures sote The droughte of March hath perced to the rote. 104 CHAUCER:  Canterbury Tales, Prologue, Line 1.

April cold with dropping rain
Willows and lilacs brings again,
The whistle of returning birds,
And trumpet-lowing of the herds.
105
EMERSON:  May-day, Line 124.

When aince Aprile has fairly come,
An’ birds may bigg in winter’s lum,
An’ pleisure’s spreid for a’ and some
        O’ whatna state,
Love, wi’ her auld recruitin’ drum,
        Than taks the gate.
106
ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON:  Underwoods, Bk. ii., iii.

=Argument.=

In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill, For e’en though vanquish’d, he could argue still. 107 GOLDSMITH:  Des.  Village, Line 211

=Aristocracy.=

’Tis from high life high characters drawn;
A saint in crape is twice a saint in lawn.
108
POPE:  Moral Essays, Epis. i., Line 135.

=Art.=

Seraphs share with thee
Knowledge:  But art, O man, is thine alone!
109
SCHILLER:  Artists, St 2.

Art is the child of Nature; yes,
Her darling child, in whom we trace
The features of the mother’s face,
Her aspect and her attitude.
110
LONGFELLOW:  Keramos.

=Artist.=

In framing an artist, art hath thus decreed, To make some good, but others to exceed. 111 SHAKS.:  Pericles, Act ii., Sc. 3.

=Aspect.=

With grave
Aspect he rose, and in his rising seem’d
A pillar of state.
112
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. ii., Line 300.

=Aspiration.=

’Tis he, I ken the manner of his gait;
He rises on the toe; that spirit of his
In aspiration lifts him from the earth.
113
SHAKS.:  Troil. and Cress., Act iv., Sc. 5.

=Assurance.=

I’ll make assurance double sure,
And take a bond of fate.
114
SHAKS.:  Macbeth, Act iv., Sc. 1.

=Atheism.=

By night an atheist half believes a God. 115 YOUNG:  Night Thoughts, Night v., Line 176.

=Athens.=

Ancient of days! august Athena! where,
Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? 
Gone—­glimmering through the dream of things that were
First in the race that led to glory’s goals
They won, and pass’d away.
116
BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto ii., St. 2.