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What you are pleased to call

your

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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.

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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,

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"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
Walles, as Themistocles called the Ship of Athens. - Preface to the
English translation of Linschoten (London).

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.
Abandon, all hope, 769.
Abashed the devil stood, 234.
Abbey, buried in the great, 592.
Abbots, where slumber, 332.
Abdiel, so spake the seraph, 235.
Abel, ask counsel at, 815.
Abhorred in my imagination, 144.
Abide with me, 569.

Abi-ezer, vintage of, 814.

Ability, knowing how to conceal, 795.
out of my lean and low, 77.

that they never perform, 102.

to execute, 407.

to investigate, 750.

Able, more performance than they are,
102.

Ablest navigators, 430.
Abode, dread, 386.

Abodes, aiming at the blest, 316.
Abominable, newspapers are, 441.
Abomination of desolation, 841.
Abora, singing of Mount, 500.
Abou Ben Adhem, 536.

Above, affections on things, 847.
all Greek fame, 329.

all low delay, 524.

all Roman fame, 329.
all, this, 130.

any Greek or Roman, 267.

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Abram, O father, 62.

Absence I dote on his very, 61.
makes the heart grow fonder, 581.
of mind, your, 509.

of occupation is not rest, 415.
still increases love, 581.
Absent child, my, 79.

friends, remember, 757.
from him I roam, 497.
from the body, 508.

in body, but present in spirit, 845.
thee from felicity awhile, 146.
Absents, presents endear, 509.
Absolute, how, the knave is, 143.

rule, eye sublime declared, 232.
shall, 103.

sway, with, 670.

Absolutism tempered by assassination,
807.

Abstain from beans, 729.

Abstinence, easiness to the next, 141.

easy as temperance is difficult, 375.
Abstract and brief chronicles, 134.
Absurd, to reason most, 127.
Abundance he shall have, 841.

of the heart, out of the, 839.
Abuse, stumbling on, 106.
Abuses me to damn me, 135.

they that level at my, 163.
Abused, better to be much, 154.
or disabused, by himself, 317.
Abusing the king's English, 45.
Abysm of time, dark, 42.

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.
conspicuous by his, 747.
days of, sad and dreary, 802.
heart grow fonder in, 581.

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.
Accomplishment of verse, 479.

Accompt, more for number than, 48.
Accord, good people all with one, 400.
According to knowledge, not, 844.
to the appearance, 843.

Account, beggarly, of empty boxes, 108.
sent to my, 132.

Accoutred as I was I plunged in, 110.
Accurst, not what God blessed, 650.
Accuse not nature, 238.
Accusing spirit, the, 379.

Ace, coldest that ever turned up, 159.
Achaians, again to the battle, 576.
Ache, charm, with air, 53.

penury and imprisonment,
while his heart doth, 266.

49.

Aches, fill all thy bones with, 42.

Achilles absent was Achilles still, 341.
assumed, what name, 219.
whom we knew, 625.

Achilles' tomb, stood upon, 558.
wrath to Greece, 336.
Aching void, left an, 422.
A-cold, poor Tom's, 147

Acorn, the lofty oak from a small, 459.
Acorns, tall oaks from little, 459.
Acquaint, when we were first, 449.
Acquaintance, decrease it upon better, 45.
my guide and mine, 820.
people for a visiting, 440.
should auld, be forgot, 449.
Acquaintances, new, 370.

Acquire and beget a temperance, 137.
Acre of barren ground, 42.

of his neighbor's corn, 472.
Acres, Cleon hath a million, 653.
few paternal, 334.

over whose, walked, 82.

Act and know, does both, 263.
done at haphazard, 751.
in the living present, C12.
of common passage, 160.
of life, dignity in every, 752.
of salvation, 139.

prologues to the swelling, 116.
that blurs the grace, 140.
that roars so loud, 140.
well your part, 319.
Acts being seven ages, 69.
exemplary, lives in, 36.

four first, already passed, 312.

illustrious, high raptures do infuse,

220.

in memory, to keep good, 171.
like a Samaritan, 607.

little nameless, 467.

nobly does well, 307.

of dear benevolence, 342.

our, our angels are, 183.

the best who thinks most, 654.
those graceful, 238.
unremembered, 467.
Acting lies, not in, 320.

of a dreadful thing, 111.
only when off the stage, 399.
Action action action, 741.
and counteraction, 409.
cause of doing any, 742.

circumstance gives character to, 726.

Action faithful in, 323.

fine, makes that and the, 204.
how like an angel in, 134.

in the tented field, 150.
is transitory, 465.

lies, there the, 139.

lose the name of, 136.

materials of, are variable, 745.
measured by the sentiment, 602.
no noble, done, 688.

no stronger than a flower, 162.
no worthy, done, 688.

of the tiger, imitate in war, 91.
pious, we sugar o'er, 135
Puritans gave the world, 641.
single lovely, 662.

suit the, to the word, 137.
surfeit out of, 102.

vice dignified by, 106

Actions, all her words and, 238.
are our epochs, 554.
blest at no end of his, 37.

great, no opportunities for, 727.
habits increased by correspondent, 745.
men's, proceed from one source, 743.
no other speaker of my living, 101.
not always show the man, 320.
not our fears make us traitors, 123.
of the just, 209.

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.
these our, were all spirits, 43.
Ad infinitum, so proceed, 290.
Ada! sole daughter, 542.

Alage, like the poor cat in the, 118.
Adam and Eve, son of, 288.

cup of cold, 289.

Cupid, young, 105, 150.
dolve and Eve span, 685.
gardener, and his wife, 624.
the goodliest man of men, 232.
the offending, 90.

the old, 850.

waked so customed, 234.

Adam's ale, and drink of, 289.
ear left his voice, in, 237.

fall, we sinned all. in, 686.
sons born in sin, 190

Adamant, cased in, 484.

A lamantine logic of dreamland, 663.
Adamas de rupe præstantissimus, 219.
Add to golden numbers, 182.
Adder, like the deaf, 821.

stingeth like an, 828.

Adding fuel to the flame, 242.

Addison, days and nights to, 369.
Address, wiped with a little, 416.
Addressing myself to my cap, 798.

Adds a precious seeing to the eye, 56.
Adhem, Abou Ben, 536.

Adhere, nor time nor place did, 118.
Adieu, drop a tear and bid, 671.

for evermore, 453.

Adieu my native shore, 540.

she cried, 348.

so sweetly she bade me, 380.
Adjunct, learning is but an, 55.
Administered, whate'er is best, 318.
Administrations, most competent, 435.
Admirable, how express and, 134.
Admiral, last of all an, 507.
to kill an, 801.
Admiration of virtue, 254.

from most fastidious critics, 591.
of weak minds, 240.

season your, for a while, 128.
Admire, like those who, us, 796.
men of sense approve, fools, 324.
where none, 377.

Admired, all who saw, 444.
by our domestics, 778.
disorder, with most, 122.
Admit impediments, 163.

Admitted to that equal sky, 315.
Adolescens moritur, 479.

Adonis hath a sweet tooth, my, 33.
Adoption tried, their, 129.

Adoration, breathless with, 470.

Adore the hand that gives the blow, 289.
Adores and burns, 316.

Adored in every clime, 334.

through fear, 421.

Adorn a tale, point a moral, 365,
looks the cottage might, 398.
nothing he did not, 367.
Adorns and cheers our way, 399.
Adorned in her husband's eye, 463.
in naked beauty more, 234.

the most when unadorned, 356.
whatever he spoke upon, 353.
Adorning with so much art, 261.

Adornment without embellishment, 705.
Adullam, cave, 814.

Adulteries of art, than all the, 178.
Advantage dressed, nature to, 323.
feet nailed for our, 82.
forget at times with, 709.

Advantageous to life, 43.
Adventure of the diver, 643.

Adventuring both, oft found both, 60.
Adversaries, as, do in law, 72.

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.
contending with, 190.

crossed with, a man I am, 44.
day of, 828, 830.

education a refuge in, 762.

good things that belong to, 164.
hard upon a man, 580.

is not without comforts, 164.
of our best friends, 796,
sweet are the uses of, 67.

test of strong men, 713.

tries friends, 713.

what way to endure, 704.
Adversity's sweet milk, 108.

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this world is a strange, 797.
Affairs of love, office and, 51.

of men, the gods superintend the, 760.
of men, tide in the, 115.
ridiculous in serious, 735.

Affect, study what you most, 72.
Affects to nod, 271.

Affected, to be zealously, 846.

Affecting, natural, simple, he was, 399.
Affection cannot hold the bent, 75.
hateth nicer hands, 27.

preferment goes by letter and, 149.
strong to me-wards, 202.
Affections dark as Erebus, 66.
mild, of, 335.

on things above, 847.

run to waste, 546.

Afflicted or distressed, 850.
Affliction may smile again, 54.
tries our virtue, 380.
Affliction's heaviest shower, 482.
sons are brothers, 447.
Affrighted nature recoils, 411.
Affront, fear is, 313.

me, a well-bred man will not, 415.
Afraid, be not, it is I, 840.

whistling to keep from being, 277.
Afric maps, geographers in, 289.
Afric's burning shore, 388.

sunny fountains, 536.
Africa and golden joys, 90.
After death the doctor, 205.
looking before and, 142.
me the deluge, 205.
the war aid, 205.
times, light for, 507,
times, written to, 253.

us the deluge, 807.

which was before come, 212.
After-loss, drop in for an, 162,
Afternoon, custom of the, 132.
multitude call the, 56.
of her best days, 97.
Afton, flow gently sweet, 449.
Again, cut and come, 444.

not look upon his like, 128.
Against me, not with me 18, 842.
Agamemnon, brave men before, 555, 706.
Agate-stone, no bigger than an, 104.
Age ache penury, 49.

actions of the last, 258.

against time and, 24.

and body of the time, 137.

and clime, in every, 349.

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