A DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS. A. ABSENCE. Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; And little absence is an age. every Dryden's Amphitrion. Dryden's Aurenzebe. All flowers will droop in absence of the sun That wak'd their sweets. Every moment I'm from thy sight, the heart within my bosom Moans like a tender infant in its cradle, Whose nurse had left it. Otway's Venice Preserved. O tell him I have sat these three long hours, Joanna Baillie's Rayner, a. 1, s. 1. Yes, The limner's art may trace the absent feature, B To view the form of its idolatry; But oh! the scenes 'mid which they met and parted, Less lovely are the fugitive clouds of eve, And not more vanishing. Maturin's Bertram, a. 1, s. 5.. Bertram, Bertram ! How sweet it is to tell the listening night The thoughts of other days are rushing on me, There's not an hour Of thee. Proctor's Mirandola, a. 1, s. 3. 'Tis scarcely Two hours since ye departed: two long hours the sun. Byron's Cain, a. 3, s. 1. Her fancy followed him through foaming waves And dream of transports she was not to know. ABSENCE-ABSENTEES-ACTIVITY. Methinks I see thee straying on the beach, 3 Cowper's Task, b. 1. Not to understand a treasure's worth Till time has stol'n away the slighted good, Is cause of half the poverty we feel, And makes the world the wilderness it is. Ibid, b. 6. Long did his wife, Suckling her babe, her only one, look out The way he went at parting, but he came not! ABSENTEES. We yet retain Rogers' Italy. Some small pre-eminence, we justly boast ACTIVITY. How slow the time To the warm soul, that, in the very instant It forms, would execute, a great design! Thomson's Coriolanus, a. 2, s 6. Seizes the prompt occasion, makes the thought Start into instant action, and at once Plans and performs, resolves and executes ! Hannah More's Daniel, pt. 1. Due entrance he disdain'd, and in contempt, Milton's Paradise Lost, b. 4. |