Cress.,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

The world's a theatre, the earth a stage
Which God and Nature do with actors fill.
28
THOMAS HEYWOOD: _Apology for Actors._

=Adaptability.=

All things are ready, if our minds be so.
29
SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 3.

=Address.=

And the tear that is wiped with a little address
May be follow'd perhaps by a smile.
30
COWPER: _The Rose._

=Adieu.=

Adieu, adieu! my native shore
Fades o'er the waters blue.
31
BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto i., St. 13.

Adieu, she cried, and waved her lily hand.
32
GAY: _Sweet William's Farewell to Black-eyed Susan._

=Admiration.=

Season your admiration for a while.
33
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc 2.

=Adoration.=

The holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration.
34
WORDSWORTH: _It is a Beauteous Evening._

=Adorning.=

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.
35
GOLDSMITH: _Des. Village,_ Line 232.

Loveliness
Needs not the foreign aid of ornament,
But is when unadorn'd, adorn'd the most.
36
THOMSON: _Seasons, Autumn,_ Line 204.

=Adversity.=

Sweet are the uses of adversity,
Which, like the toad, ugly and venomous,
Wears yet a precious jewel in his head;
And this our life, exempt from public haunt,
Finds tongues in trees, books in the running brooks,
Sermons in stones, and good in everything.
37
SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

A wretched soul, bruis'd with adversity,
We bid be quiet, when we hear it cry;
But were we burthen'd with like weight of pain,
As much, or more, we should ourselves complain.
38
SHAKS.: _Com. of Errors,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

I am not now in fortune's power:
He that is down can fall no lower.
39
BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. i., Canto iii., Line 877.

For of fortunes sharpe adversite,
The worst kind of infortune is this,--
A man that hath been is prosperite,
And it remember whan it passed is.
40
CHAUCER: _Troilus and Creseide,_ Bk. iii., Line 1625.

=Advice.=

Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice;
Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment.
41
SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Know when to speak--for many times it brings
Danger, to give the best advice to kings.
42
HERRICK: _Aph. Caution in Council._

The worst men often give the best advice.
43
BAILEY _Festus,_ Sc. _A Village Feast._

'Twas good advice, and meant, my son, Be good.
44
CRABBE: _The Learned Boy._

=Aff