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With what a deep devotedness of woe
I wept thy absence—o'er and o'er again
Thinking of thee, still thee, till thought grew pain,
And memory, like a drop that, night and day,
Falls cold and ceaseless, wore my heart away!

Moore—Lalla Rookh. The Veiled Prophet of Khorassan.

2

Condemned whole years in absence to deplore,
And image charms he must behold no more.

Pope—Eloise to Abelard. L. 361.

3

Absenti nemo ne nocuisse velit.

Let no one be willing to speak ill of the absent.

Propertius—Elegiæ. II. 19. 32. Chilo in Life by Diogenes Laertius. (Modified by Thucydides. II. 45.)

4

Days of absence, sad and dreary,
Clothed in sorrow's dark array,—
Days of absence, I am weary;
She I love is far away.

Rousseau—Days of Absence.

5

Among the defects of the bill [Lord Derby's] which are numerous, one provision is conspicuous by its presence and another by its absence.

Lord John Russell—Address to the Electors of the City of London, April 6, 1859. Phrase used by Lord Brougham. Quoted by Chenier in one of his tragedies. Idea used by Henry Labouchère in Truth, Feb. 11, 1886, and by Earl Granville Feb. 21, 1873. Lady Brownlow—Reminiscences of a Septuagenarian.

(See also Tacitus)

6

I dote on his very absence, and I wish them a fair departure.

Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 120.

7

All days are nights to see till I see thee,
And nights bright days when dreams do show thee me.

Sonnet XLIII.

8

How like a winter hath my absence been
From thee, the pleasure of the fleeting year!
What freezings have I felt, what dark days seen!
What old December's bareness everywhere.

Sonnet XCVII.

9

Præfulgebant Cassius atque Brutus eo ipso, quod effigies eorum non videbantur.

Cassius and Brutus were the more distinguished for that very circumstance that their portraits were absent.

Tacitus—Annals. Bk. III. Ch. 76. From the funeral of Junia, wife of Cassius and sister to Brutus, when the insignia of twenty illustrious families were carried in the procession.

(See also Russell)

10

'Tis said that absence conquers love;
But oh! believe it not.
I've tried, alas! its power to prove,
But thou art not forgot.

Frederick W. Thomas—Absence Conquers Love.

11

Since you have waned from us,
Fairest of women!
I am a darkened cage
Songs cannot hymn in.
My songs have followed you,
Like birds the summer;
Ah! bring them back to me,
Swiftly, dear comer!
Seraphim,
Her to hymn.
Might leave their portals;
And at my feet learn
The harping of mortals!

Francis Thompson—A Carrier Song.

ACACIA

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A great acacia, with its slender trunk
And overpoise of multitudinous leaves,
(In which a hundred fields might spill their dew
And intense verdure, yet find room enough)
Stood reconciling all the place with green.

E. B. Browning—Aurora Leigh. Bk. VI.

13

Light-leaved acacias, by the door,
Stood up in balmy air,
Clusters of blossomed moonlight bore.
And breathed a perfume rare.

George MacDonald—Song of the Spring Nights. Pt. I.

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Our rocks are rough, but smiling there
Th' acacia waves her yellow hair,
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less
For flow'ring in a wilderness.

Moore—Lalla Rookh. Light of the Harem.

ACCIDENT

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Chapter of accidents.

Burke—Notes for Speeches. (Edition 1852) Vol. II. P. 426.

(see also Wilkes)

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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families.

Dickens—David Copperfield. Ch. XXVIII. Pickwick Papers. Ch. II. Scott—Peveril of the Peak. Last Chapter. V.S. Lean—Collectanæ. Vol. III. P. 411.

17

To what happy accident is it that we owe so

unexpected a visit?

Goldsmith—Vicar of Wakefield. Ch. XIX.

(See also Middleton, De Staël)

18

Our wanton accidents take root, and grow
To vaunt themselves God's laws.

Charles Kingsley—Saint's Tragedy. Act. II. Sc. 4.

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Nichts unter der Sonne ist Zufall—am wenigsten das wovon die Absicht so klar in die Augen leuchtet.

Nothing under the sun is accidental, least of all that of which the intention is so clearly evident.

Lessing—Emilia Galotti. IV. 3.