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.
119
SHAKS.: _Richard II.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

=Audience.=

Still govern thou my song,
Urania, and fit audience find, though few.
120
MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. vii., Line 30,

=August.=

Rejoice! ye fields, rejoice! and wave with gold,
When August round her precious gifts is flinging;
Lo! the crushed wain is slowly homeward rolled:
The sunburnt reapers jocund lays are singing.
121
RUSKIN: _The Months._

=Aurora.=

Aurora now, fair daughter of the dawn,
Sprinkled with rosy light the dewy lawn.
122
POPE: _Iliad,_ Bk. viii., Line 1.

=Author.=

Most authors steal their works, or buy;
Garth did not write his own Dispensary,
123
POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 59.

No author ever spar'd a brother.
124
GAY: _Fables, The Elephant and