=Anarchy.=

Where eldest Night And Chaos, ancestors of Nature, hold Eternal anarchy amidst the noise Of endless wars, and by confusion stand.

80 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 894.

=Ancestry.=

The sap which at the root is bred In trees, through all the boughs is spread; But virtues which in parents shine Make not like progress through the line.

81 WALLER: _To Zelinda._

What can ennoble sots, or slaves, or cowards?

Alas! not all the blood of all the Howards.

82 POPE: _Essay on Man,_ Epis. iv., Line 215.

=Angels.=

Fools rush in where angels fear to tread.

83 POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 66.

The angels come and go, the messengers of God.

84 R.H. STODDARD: _Hymn to the Beautiful._

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.