What you are pleased to call your mind. A solicitor, after hearing Lord Westbury's opinion, ventured to say that he had turned the matter over in his mind, and thought that something might be said on the other side; to which he replied, Then, sir, you will turn it over once more in what you are pleased to call your mind." — NASH: Life of Lord Westbury, vol. ii. 292. When in doubt, win the trick. HOYLE: Twenty-four Rules for Learners, Rule 12. Wisdom of many and the wit of one. A definition of a proverb which Lord John Russell gave one morning at breakfast at Mardock's, - "One man's wit, and all men's wisdom." Memoirs of Mackintosh, vol. ii. p. 473. Wooden walls of England. The credite of the Realme, by defending the same with our Wodden But me no buts. FIELDING: Rape upon Rape, act ii. sc. 2. AARON HILL: Snake in the Grass, sc. 1. Cause me no causes. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act i. sc. 3. Clerk me no clerks. SCOTT: Ivanhoe, chap. xx. Diamond me no diamonds! prize me no prizes! TENNYSON: Idylls of the King. Elaine. End me no ends. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act v. sc. 1. Fool me no fools. BULWER: Last Days of Pompeii, book iii. chap. vi. Front me no fronts. FORD: The Lady's Trial, act ii. sc. 1. Grace me no grace, nor uncle me no uncle. SHAKESPEARE: Richard II., act ii. sc. 3. Madam me no madam. DRYDEN: The Wild Gallant, act ii. sc. 2. Map me no maps. FIELDING: Rape upon Rape, act i. sc. 5. Midas me no Midas. DRYDEN: The Wild Gallant, act ii. sc. 1. O me no O's. BEN JONSON: The Case is Altered, act v. sc. 1. Parish me no parishes. PEELE: The Old Wives' Tale. Petition me no petitions. FIELDING: Tom Thumb, act i. sc. 2. Play me no plays. FOOTE: The Knight, act ii. Plot me no plots. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: The Knight of the Burning Pestle, act ii. sc. 5. Thank me no thanks, nor proud me no prouds. SHAKESPEARE: Romeo and Juliet, act iii. sc. 5. Virgin me no virgins. MASSINGER: A New Way to Pay Old Debts, act iii. sc. 2. Vow me no vows. BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER: Wit without Money, act iv. sc. 4. INDEX. AARON's serpent, like, 317. Abi-ezer, vintage of, 814. Ability, knowing how to conceal, 795. that they never perform, 102. to execute, 407. to investigate, 750. Able, more performance than they are, Ablest navigators, 430. Abodes, aiming at the blest, 316. Above, affections on things, 847. all low delay, 524. all Roman fame, 329. any Greek or Roman, 267. Abram, O father, 62. Absence I dote on his very, 61. of occupation is not rest, 415. friends, remember, 757. in body, but present in spirit, 845. rule, eye sublime declared, 232. sway, with, 670. Absolutism tempered by assassination, Abstain from beans, 729. Abstinence, easiness to the next, 141. easy as temperance is difficult, 375. of the heart, out of the, 839. they that level at my, 163. Abyss, into this wild, 229. Abyssinia, Prince of, 368. Abyssinian maid, it was an, 500. Academe, grove of, 241. Academes that nourish all the world, 56. Accents flow with artless ease, 437. that are ours, 39. Accept a miracle instead of wit, 311. Acceptation, worthy of all, 284. Abridgment of all that was pleasant in Accepted time, now is the, 846. man, 399. Abroad, came flying all, 23, 327. let the soldier be, 527. the schoolmaster is, 527. Absence conquers love, 679. Access of stupidity, 371. Accident, a happy, 174, 402, 792. of an accident, 426. Accidents by flood and field, 150. chapter of, 353. Accommodated, excellent to be, 89. Accompany old age, that which, 124. Accompt, more for number than, 48. Account, beggarly, of empty boxes, 108. Accoutred as I was I plunged in, 110. Ace, coldest that ever turned up, 159. penury and imprisonment, 49. Aches, fill all thy bones with, 42. Achilles absent was Achilles still, 341. Achilles' tomb, stood upon, 558. Acorn, the lofty oak from a small, 459. Acquire and beget a temperance, 137. of his neighbor's corn, 472. over whose, walked, 82. Act and know, does both, 263. prologues to the swelling, 116. four first, already passed, 312. illustrious, high raptures do infuse, 220. in memory, to keep good, 171. little nameless, 467. nobly does well, 307. of dear benevolence, 342. our, our angels are, 183. the best who thinks most, 654. of a dreadful thing, 111. circumstance gives character to, 726. Action faithful in, 323. fine, makes that and the, 204. in the tented field, 150. lies, there the, 139. lose the name of, 136. materials of, are variable, 745. no stronger than a flower, 162. of the tiger, imitate in war, 91. suit the, to the word, 137. vice dignified by, 106 Actions, all her words and, 238. great, no opportunities for, 727. of the last age, 258. speech the image of, 757. virtuous, are born and die, 670. words the shadows of, 729. Actor, condemn not the, 47. well graced, after a, 82. Actors, God and nature fill with, 194. Alage, like the poor cat in the, 118. cup of cold, 289. Cupid, young, 105, 150. the old, 850. waked so customed, 234. Adam's ale, and drink of, 289. fall, we sinned all. in, 686. Adamant, cased in, 484. A lamantine logic of dreamland, 663. stingeth like an, 828. Adding fuel to the flame, 242. Addison, days and nights to, 369. Adds a precious seeing to the eye, 56. Adhere, nor time nor place did, 118. for evermore, 453. Adieu my native shore, 540. she cried, 348. so sweetly she bade me, 380. from most fastidious critics, 591. season your, for a while, 128. Admired, all who saw, 444. Admitted to that equal sky, 315. Adonis hath a sweet tooth, my, 33. Adoration, breathless with, 470. Adore the hand that gives the blow, 289. Adored in every clime, 334. through fear, 421. Adorn a tale, point a moral, 365, the most when unadorned, 356. Adornment without embellishment, 705. Adulteries of art, than all the, 178. Advantageous to life, 43. Adventuring both, oft found both, 60. souls of fearful, 95. Adversary had written a book, 817. the devil, your, 849. Adversite, fortunes sharpe, 5. Adversity blessing of the New Testament, 164. bruised with, 50. crossed with, a man I am, 44. education a refuge in, 762. good things that belong to, 164. is not without comforts, 164. test of strong men, 713. tries friends, 713. what way to endure, 704. this world is a strange, 797. of men, the gods superintend the, 760. Affect, study what you most, 72. Affected, to be zealously, 846. Affecting, natural, simple, he was, 399. preferment goes by letter and, 149. on things above, 847. run to waste, 546. Afflicted or distressed, 850. me, a well-bred man will not, 415. whistling to keep from being, 277. sunny fountains, 536. us the deluge, 807. which was before come, 212. not look upon his like, 128. actions of the last, 258. against time and, 24. and body of the time, 137. and clime, in every, 349. |