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| I saw that time of life begin When every man, the port approaching, ought To coil the ropes, and take the canvas in. Dante.—Inferno, Canto XXVII. Line 79. (Wright’s Translation.) | 1 |
| The good mariner, when he draws near the port, furls his sails, and enters it softly; so ought we to lower the sails of our worldly operations, and turn to God with all our heart and understanding. Dante.—Convito, Trat. 4, 28. (Note by Mr. Wright.) | 2 |
| Old age came creeping in the peaceful gown, And civil functions weigh’d the soldier down. Rowe’s Lucan, Book I. Line 245. | 3 |
| Still seem’d he to possess and fill his place, But stood the shadow of what once he was. Rowe’s Lucan, Book I. Line 256. | 4 |
| Old age, a second child, by nature curs’d, With more and greater evils than the first, Weak, sickly, full of pains; in every breath Railing at life, and yet afraid of death. Churchill.—Gotham, Book I. | 5 |
| An old age serene and bright, And lovely as a Lapland night, Shall lead thee to thy grave. Wordsworth.—(To a Young Lady.) | 6 |
| Old as I am, for ladies’ love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam’d my soul, and still inspires my wit. Dryden.—Cymon and Iphigenia, Line 1. | 7 |
| What though his hair be gray, he is not old in mind. Plautus.—Miles Gloriosus, Act III. Scene 1. | 8 |
| An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye; Give him a little earth for charity! Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act IV. Scene 2. (Griffith on Wolsey’s death.) | 9 |
| In wretchedness grown old. Congreve.—Priam’s Lamentation. | 10 |
| Old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d Lancaster. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act I. Scene 1. (The King to his Uncle.) | 11 |
| An old man is twice a child. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Hamlet speaking of Polonius.) | 12 |
| Old ladies who have flirted with our fathers, always seem to claim a sort of property in the sons. Bulwer Lytton.—Devereux, Book V. Chap. IV. | 13 |
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