=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.

=Affectation.=

There affectation, with a sickly mien,
Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen;
Practis’d to lisp, and hang the head aside;
Faints into airs, and languishes with pride;
On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe,
Wrapt in a gown, for sickness, and for show.
45
POPE:  R. of the Lock, Canto iv., Line 31.

=Affection.=

Why, she would hang on him,
As if increase of appetite had grown
By what it fed on.
46
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act i., Sc. 2.

Affection is a coal that must be cool’d, Else, suffer’d, it will set the heart on fire. 47 SHAKS.:  Venus and A., Line 387.

=Affliction.=

Affliction is the good man’s shining scene; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray; As night to stars, woe lustre gives to man. 48 YOUNG:  Night Thoughts, Night ix., Line 406.