Familiar Quotations Part 105

_Measure for Measure_. Act v. Sc. 1.

My business in this state Made me a looker on here in Vienna.

_King Henry VI_. Part i. Act i, Sc. 1.

Hung be the heavens with black

MILTON.

Sonnet xi. _To Cromwell_.

Peace hath her victories No less renowned than war.

GEORGE HERBERT.

_The Elixir_.

A servant with this clause Makes drudgery divine; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws.

Makes that and the action fine.

SAMUEL BUTLER

_Hudibras_. P. ii. C. i. Line 843.

Love is a boy by poets styled; Then spare the rod and spoil the child.

JAMES THOMSON.

_Seasons_. _Winter_, Line 625.

The kiss s.n.a.t.c.hed hasty from the sidelong maid.

WILLIAM WORDSWORTH

_Tintern Abbey_.

Knowing that Nature never did betray The heart that loved her.