99 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

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.

Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence.

117 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 240.

=Attempt.=

The attempt and not the deed Confounds us.

118 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2.

=Attention.=

The tongues of dying men Enforce attention like deep harmony.