Long purples. Hamlet, IV. 7.
Take the good the Gods provide them. Dryden, Alexander’s Feast, 105.
Appliances and means to boot. 2 King Henry IV., III. 1.
‘A man,’ says Yorick, ‘finds an apple.’ Tristram Shandy, III. 34.
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[180]. Good haters. Mrs. Piozzi, in her Anecdotes of the late Samuel Johnson (Johnsonian Miscellanies, ed. G. B. Hill, I. 204), writes: ‘Dear Bathurst (said he to me one day) was a man to my very heart’s content: he hated a fool, and he hated a rogue, and he hated a Whig; he was a very good hater.’ See also vol. I. The Round Table, p. 103.
[181]. Right-hand defections. Scott’s Heart of Midlothian, vol. I. chap. XII.
A consummation. ‘Devoutly to be wished.’ Hamlet, III. 1.
What more felicity can fall to creature? Spenser’s Muiopotmos, or the Fate of the Butterflie, 27.
[183]. Good œillades. Cf. Merry Wives, I. 3, ‘judicious œillades,’ and King Lear, IV. 5, ‘strange œillades.’