b. Winter's Tale. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 426. 'Tis not by guilt the onward sweep He has spent all his life in letting down empty buckets into empty wells, and he is frittering away his age in trying to draw them up again. d. SYDNEY SMITH-Lady Holland's An old doting fool, with one foot already in the grave. q. PLUTARCH-Morals. On the Training of Children. 'Tis all one as if they should make the Standard for the measure, we call a Foot, a Chancellor's Foot; what an uncertain Measure would this be! one Chancellor has a long Foot, another a short Foot, a Third an indifferent Foot. 'Tis the same thing in the Chancellor's Conscience. Nay, her foot speaks. O, so light a foot Will ne'er wear out the everlasting flint. t. Romeo and Juliet. Act II. Sc. 6. L. 16. O happy earth, Whereon thy innocent feet doe ever tread! u. Her feet beneath her petticoat, And feet like sunny gems on an English green. TENNYSON-Maud. Pt. V. St. 2. w. FOOTSTEPS. The tread Of coming footsteps cheats the midnight watcher Who holds her heart and waits to hear them pause, And hears them never pause, but pass and die. a. A beau is one who arranges his curled locks gracefully, who ever smells of balm, and cinnamon; who hums the songs of the Nile, and Cadiz; who throws his sleek arms into various attitudes; who idles away the whole day among the chairs of the ladies, and is ever whispering into some one's ear; who reads little billets-doux from this quarter and that, and writes them in return; who avoids ruffling his dress by contact with his neighbour's sleeve, who knows with whom everybody is in love; who flutters from feast to feast, who can recount exactly the pedigree of Hirpinus. What do you tell me? is this a beau, Cotilus? Then a beau, Cotilus, is a very trifling thing. 1. Delight. MARTIAL-Epigrams. Bk. III. Ep. 6. GEORGE ELIOT-The Spanish Gypsy. And so to tread Bk. III. As if the wind, not she, did walk; |