THE CYCLOPEDIA OF PRACTICAL QUOTATIONS. A. ABDICATION. He was utterly without ambition [Chas. II.]. He detested business, and would sooner have abdicated his crown than have undergone the trouble of really directing the administration. MACAULAY-History of England. a. (Character of Charles II.). RUSKIN-Sesame and Lilies. Of Queen's I give this heavy weight from off my head, c. Richard II. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 204. ABHORRENCE. The self-same thing they will abhor L. 219. 0. Two Gentlemen of Verona. Act IV. BUTLER-Hudibras. Pt. I. Canto I. Sc. 3. L. 17. SOUTHEY-Curse of Kehama. VIII. 9. For, if the worlds In worlds enclosed should on his senses burst *** He would abhorrent turn. 4. THOMSON-Seasons. Summer. L. 313. When it was become an abhorring even to them that had loved it best. L. 79. T. TRENCH-Miracles. XXIX. 414. Every person is responsible for all the good within the scope of his abilities, and for no more, and none can tell whose sphere is the largest. g. GAIL HAMILTON-Country Living and To the very last, he [Napoleon] had a kind of idea; that, namely, of la carrière ouverte aux talent-the tools to him that can handle them. h. LOCKHART-Sir Walter Scott. London and Westminster Review, 1838. A Traveller at Sparta, standing long upon one leg, said to a Lacedæmonian, "I do not believe you can do as much." "True," said he, "but every goose can." i. PLUTARCH-Laconic Apothegms. Remarkable Speeches of Some Obscure Read my little fable: Miscellaneous Poems, LIX. Ever absent, ever near; Still I see thee, still I hear; Yet I cannot reach thee, dear! q. FRANCIS KAZINCZY-Separation. What shall I do with all the days and hours That must be counted ere I see thy face? How shall I charm the interval that lowers Between this time and that sweet time of grace? Men. u. GEORGE LINLEY-Song. |