And many a lovely look on them he cast.-GOWER.

Who could have divined in the beautiful dreamy youth of Milton the destined champion of fanatics, to whom the Muses and the Graces were daughters of Belial? Who could have supposed that from one of such golden platonisms, such lovely fancies as meet and ravish us in 'Comus' and 'L'Allegro' and 'Il Penseroso,' would rise the inflexible, wrathful genius? Happy that surviving the age of strife, that mystic spirit was seen in old age nearer to the gates of heaven than even in youth, blending all the poetry of Christendom itself in that wondrous Hymn, compared to which Tasso's song is but a dainty lay, and even Dante's verse but a Gothic mystery.-Caxtoniana.

Lover. A friend.

Lover and friend hast thou put far from me, and mine acquaintance into darkness.-Authorised Version, Psalm lxxxviii.

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And yet gavest thou me never so much as a kid, that I might make merry with my lovers.-CRANMER'S Bible, Luke XV. 29. I tell thee, fellow,

The general is my lover.

SHAKSPEARE, Coriolanus, v. 2.

The people had now to see tyranny unmasked; that foul Duenna was stripped of her gorgeous ornaments. She had always been hideous, but a strange enchantment had made her seem fair and glorious in the eyes of her willing slaves. The spell was now broken, the deformity was now manifest, and the lovers lately so happy and so proud, turned away loathing and horror-struck.-MACAULAY.

Lusty. Loving, lovely: now usually 'well clothed with flesh.'

Laodomie his lusty wife,

Which for his love was pensive.-GOWER.

Full lusty was the weather and benign.-CHAUCER.

Pleasure grounds. Nature had sunk the lawn into a gentle

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decline, on whose ample sides were oxen browsing and lambs frisking. The lusty droves lowed as they passed, and the thriving flocks bleated welcome in their master's ear.-HERVEY.

Magic.
Magician.

M.

'Magic' once had the more honourable meaning of natural philosophy.

We here understand magic in its ancient and honourable sense among the Persians it stood for a sublime wisdom, or a knowledge of the relations of universal Nature, as may be observed in the titles of those kings who came from the East to adore Christ.-BACON.

Those who become practically versed in nature are the mechanic, or the mathematician, the physician, the alchemist, and the magician; but all, as matters now stand, with faint efforts and meagre success.-Id.

Can I forget thee, thou old Margate Hoy, with thy weatherbeaten, sun-burnt captain, and his rough accommodations, ill exchanged for the foppery and fresh water niceness of the modern steam-packet? To the winds and waves thou committedst thy goodly freightage, and didst ask no aid of magic fumes and spells, and boiling cauldrons: with the gales of heaven thou wentest swimmingly, or when it was their pleasure, stoodest still with sailor-like patience.-C. LAMB.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends, but they are imprisoned by an enchanter in their paper and leather boxes, and though they know us and have been waiting two, ten, or twenty centuries for us, some of them, and are eager to give us a sign and unbosom themselves, it is the law of their limbs not to speak until spoken to; and the magician has dressed them like battalions of infantry.-EMERSON.

Magnify. To exalt. Shakspeare sometimes uses

'magnificent' as 'pretending to greatness.' In other old writers it occurs as equivalent to 'munificent.'

Then cometh magnificence, that is to say, when a man doeth and performeth great works of goodness that he hath begun.— CHAUCER.

Where sat a lady greatly magnified.—SPENSER.

My soul doth magnify the Lord.—Prayer Book.

A domineering pedant o'er the boy,
Than whom no mortal so magnificent.

SHAKSPEARE, Love's Labour's Lost, i. 1.

The power to detach and to magnify by detaching, is the essence of rhetoric in the hands of the orator and the poet. This rhetoric, or the power to fix the momentary eminency of an object, so remarkable in Burke and in Carlyle, the painter and the sculptor exhibit in colour and in stone.-EMERSON.

Make. A mate, companion, husband or wife: now obsolete.

Who is so true and eke so ententif

To keep him sick and whole, as is his make?

Nightingales at night syngen and wake

CHAUCER.

For long absence and wanting of his make.-Lydgate.

There's no goose so gray in the lake

That cannot find a gander for her make.

LYLY, Mother Bombie, iii. 4.

And of faire Britomart example take,

That was as true in love, as turtle to her make.

SPENSER, Fairy Queen, iii. II.

So when they slight their makes at hame,
"Tis ten to one the wives are maist to blame.

A. RAMSAY.

One who has no seen an Italian in the pulpit will not know what to make of that noble gesture in Raphael's picture of St. Paul preaching at Athens, where the Apostle is represented

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as lifting up both his arms and pouring out the thunder of his rhetoric, amidst an audience of Pagan Philosophers. It is certain that proper gestures and vehement exertions of the voice cannot be too much studied by a public orator, they are a kind of comment to what he utters, and enforce everything he says better than the strongest arguments he can make use of; they show the speaker in earnest and himself affected with what he so passionately recommends to others.-ADDISON.

Malice. Destruction, injury.

What reproche, shame, and vilanie should be cast through the world upon us and this our Reaume, Lordships and subjects, if it were not convenably resisted, to the malice of our said adversary.-HENRY VI, Letter to the Abbot of St. Edmund's.

Malice is more frequently employed to express the dispositions of inferior minds to execute every purpose of mischief, within the more limited circle of their abilities.-COGAN.

My worthy friend Sir Roger, when we are talking of the malice of parties, very frequently tells us an accident that happened to him when he was a schoolboy, which was at a time when feuds ran high between the Roundheads and Cavaliers. He had occasion to enquire the way to St. Anne's lane, upon which the person addressed, instead of answering him, called him a young Popish cur, and asked him who had made Anne a Saint? The boy being in some confusion enquired of the next he met, which was the way to Anne's lane, but was called a prick-eared cur for his pains, and instead of being shewn the way, was told that she had been a Saint before he was born, and would be one after he was hanged.—ADDISON.

Manage. To carry out, execute: now, to administer, carry on.

To send the Messias for accomplishing the greatest design that ever was managed in this world.-BARROW.

Providence managing things with infinite temper and wisdom to the good of mankind.—Id.

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we little doubt that a mirror would direct us in the management of the most familiar of our features, and our hand would follow its guidance until we try to cut off a lock of our hair.-W. S. LANDOR.

It is too ludicrous, too melancholy, to think of the finances of this country being managed by such a man [Lord Althorp]: what will not people endure? What a strange medley politics produce a wretched clerk in an office who makes some unimportant blunder, some clerical error, or who exhibits signs of incapacity for work, which it does not much signify whether it be well or ill done, is got rid of, and here this man, this goodnatured, popular, liked-and-laughed at good fellow, more of a grazier than a statesman, blurts out his utter ignorance before a Reformed Parliament, and people lift up their eyes, shrug their shoulders, and laugh and chuckle, but still on he goes.Greville Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 3.

Many. An old name for a 'company,' or 'retinue.'
The rascal many soon they overthrew,

But the two knights themselves, their captains did subdue.
SPENSER, Fairy Queen.

It is very curious to observe the way in which anger is wont to make use of the plural. No sooner is any man injured by some one person belonging to a body, than the injured man attaches the blame to the whole of the body. He is injured by one person belonging to a family, or a government, or any section of mankind; forthwith he goes about saying, 'they are abominable people, they used me shamefully.' This practice seems at first ludicrous, but it often leads to the most serious consequences; they hear of it and are prompt to take up the quarrel, so in the end he really has to contend against the injustice, not only of one man, but of many men.-Sir A. HELPS.

Marmalade, says Dr. Johnson, is the pulp of quinces boiled into a consistence with sugar.' It is now, however, applied to decoctions of many fruits.

And at night to banquet with dew (as they say) of all manner of fruits and confeccions, marmelad, succad, greene-ginger, com