Careful Words

aged (n.)

aged (adj.)

  Confidence is a plant of slow growth in an aged bosom.

William Pitt, Earl Of Chatham (1708-1778): Speech, Jan. 14, 1766.

Delivers in such apt and gracious words

That aged ears play truant at his tales,

And younger hearings are quite ravished;

So sweet and voluble is his discourse.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Love's Labour's Lost. Act ii. Sc. 1.

  "Antiquitas saeculi juventus mundi." These times are the ancient times, when the world is ancient, and not those which we account ancient ordine retrogrado, by a computation backward from ourselves.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Advancement of Learning. Book i. (1605.)

Thus aged men, full loth and slow,

The vanities of life forego,

And count their youthful follies o'er,

Till Memory lends her light no more.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Rokeby. Canto v. Stanza 1.