Familiar Quotations - LightNovelsOnl.com
You're reading novel online at LightNovelsOnl.com. Please use the follow button to get notifications about your favorite novels and its latest chapters so you can come back anytime and won't miss anything.
_The Hermit_. Line 5.
Remote from men, with G.o.d he pa.s.sed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.
BARTON BOOTH.
1681-1733.
_Song_.
True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.
MATTHEW GREEN.
1696-1737.
_The Spleen_. Line 93.
Fling but a stone, the giant dies.
JOHN BYROM.
1691-1763.
_'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini_.[13]
Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.
Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.
[Note 13: "Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's Remains (Cheltenham Soc), Vol. I. p 173. The last two lines have been attributed to Switt and Pope. _Vide_ Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope.]
_The Astrologer_.
As clear as a whistle.
_Epigram on Two Monopolists_.
Bone and skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.
BISHOP BERKELEY.
1684-1753.
_On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America_.
Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's n.o.blest offspring is the last.
ROBERT BLAIR.
1699-1746.
_The Grave_. Part ii. Line 586.
The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.
EDWARD YOUNG.
1681-1765.
NIGHT THOUGHTS.
Night i. Line 1.
Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!
