.
60
BEATTIE: _The Minstrel,_ Bk. i., St. 25.

But an old age serene and bright,
And lovely as a Lapland night,
Shall lead thee to thy grave.
61
WORDSWORTH: _To a Young Lady._

=Agony.=

A solitary shriek, the bubbling cry
Of some strong swimmer in his agony.
62
BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto ii., St. 53.

=Agreement.=

Could we forbear dispute and practise love,
We should agree as angels do above.
63
WALLER: _Divine Love,_ Canto iii.

Where order in variety we see,
And where, though all things differ, all agree.
64
POPE: _Windsor Forest,_ Line 13.

=Aim.=

Better have failed in the high aim, as I,
Than vulgarly in the low aim succeed.
65
ROBERT BROWNING: _The Inn Album,_ iv.

=Air.=

When he speaks,
The air, a chartered libertine, is still
66
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act i., Sc. 1.

=Alacrity.=

I have a kind of alacrity in sinking.
67
SHAKS.: _Mer. W. of W.,_ Act iii., Sc. 5.

=Ale.=

Then to the spicy nut-brown ale.
68
MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 100.

A Rechabite poor Will must live,
And drink of Adam's ale.
69
PRIOR: _The Wandering Pilgrim._

=Alexandrine.=

A needless Alexandrine ends the song,
That, like a wounded snake, drags its slow length along.
70
POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. ii., Line 156.

=Alone.=

Alone, alone,--all, all alone;
Alone on a wide, wide sea.
71
COLERIDGE: _The Ancient Mariner,_ Pt. iv.

=Amazement.=

But look! Amazement on thy mother sits;
O step between her and her fighting soul:
Conceit in weakest bodies strongest works.
72
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

=Amber.=

Pretty! in amber to observe the forms
Of hairs, or straws, or dirt, or grubs, or worms!
The things, we know, are neither rich nor rare,
But wonder how the devil they got there.
73
POPE: _Epis. to Arbuthnot,_ Line 169.

=Ambition.=

Fling away ambition;
By that sin fell the angels: how can man then,
The image of his Maker, hope to win by it?
74
SHAKS.: _Henry VIII.,_ Act iii, Sc. 2.

I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on the other.
75
SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act i, Sc. 7.

Ambition has but one reward for all:
A little power, a little transient fame,
A grave to rest in, and a fading name.
76
WILLIAM WINTER: _Queen's Domain._

To reign is worth ambition, though in hell:
Better to reign in hell, than serve in heaven.
77
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk