Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations | Page 9

so merry, draws one out.?269?PETER PINDAR: Ex. Odes, Ode 15.
Hang sorrow! care will kill a cat,?And therefore let's be merry.?270?GEORGE WITHER: Poem on Christmas.
=Carefulness.=
For my means, I'll husband them so well,?They shall go far with little.?271?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 5.
=Cat.=
A harmless necessary cat.?272?SHAKS.: M. of Venice, Act iv., Sc. 1.
Let Hercules himself do what he may,?The cat will mew and dog will have his day.?273?SHAKS.: Hamlet, Act v., Sc. 1.
=Cataract.=
The sounding cataract?Haunted me like a passion.?274?WORDSWORTH: Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
=Cathedrals.=
The high embower'd roof,?With antique pillars, massy proof,?And storied windows, richly dight,?Casting a dim religious light.?275?MILTON: Il Penseroso, Line 157.
=Cato.=
Like Cato, give his little senate laws,?And sit attentive to his own applause.?276?POPE: Prologue to the Satires, Line 207.
=Cattle.=
O Mary, go and call the cattle home,?And call the cattle home,?And call the cattle home,?Across the sands o' Dee.?277?CHARLES KINGSLEY: The Sands of Dee.
=Cause.=
And therefore little shall I grace my cause?In speaking for myself.?278?SHAKS.: Othello, Act i., Sc. 3.
=Caution.=
Let every eye negotiate for itself?And trust no agent.?279?SHAKS.: Much Ado, Act ii, Sc. 1.
Know when to speak; for many times it brings?Danger, to give the best advice to kings.?280?HERRICK: Aph. Caution in Council,
Vessels large may venture more,?But little boats should keep near shore.?281?FRANKLIN: Poor Richard.
=Caverns.=
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran?Through caverns measureless to man
Down to a sunless sea.?282?COLERIDGE: Kubla Khan.
=Celibacy.=
But earthly happier is the rose distill'd,?Than that, which, withering on the virgin thorn,?Grows, lives and dies in single blessedness.?283?SHAKS.: Mid. N. Dream, Act i., Sc. 1.
Our Maker bids increase; who bids abstain?But our destroyer, foe to God and man??284?MILTON: Par. Lost, Bk. iv., Line 748.
=Censure.=
Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,?Are lost on hearers that our merits know.?285?POPE: Iliad, Bk. x., Line 293.
=Ceremony.=
Ceremony was but devised at first?To set a gloss on faint deeds--hollow welcomes,?Recanting goodness, sorry ere 't is shown;?But where there is true friendship, there needs none.?286?SHAKS.: Timon of A., Act i., Sc. 2.
=Challenge.=
There I throw my gage,?To prove it on thee, to the extremest point?Of mortal breathing.?287?SHAKS.: Richard II., Act iv., Sc. 1.
=Chance.=
That power?Which erring men call Chance.?288?MILTON: Comus, Line 587.
All nature is but art unknown to thee,?All chance, direction, which thou canst not see.?289?POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 289.
=Change.=
All but God is changing day by day.?290?CHARLES KINGSLEY: Prometheus.
When change itself can give no more,?'T is easy to be true.?291?CHARLES SEDLEY: Reasons for Constancy.
Let the great world spin forever down the ringing?grooves of change.?292?TENNYSON: Locksley Hall, Line 182.
=Chaos.=
For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,?And, beauty dead, black chaos comes again.?293?SHAKS.: Venus and A., Line 1019.
Chaos of thought and passion, all confused;?Still by himself abused or disabused.?294?POPE: Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 13.
=Character.=
There is a kind of character in thy life,?That to the observer doth thy history?Fully unfold.?295?SHAKS.: M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1.
Worth, courage, honor, these indeed?Your sustenance and birthright are.?296?E.C. STEDMAN: Beyond the Portals, Pt. 10.
=Charity.=
Charity itself fulfils the law,?And who can sever love from charity??297?SHAKS.: Love's L. Lost, Act iv., Sc. 3.
Alas for the rarity?Of Christian charity?Under the sun!?298?HOOD: Bridge of Sighs.
=Charms.=
Charms strike the sight, but merit wins the soul.?299?POPE: R. of the Lock, Canto v., Line 34.
=Chastity.=
So dear to heav'n is saintly chastity,?That when a soul is found sincerely so,?A thousand liveried angels lackey her.?300?MILTON: Comus, Line 453.
=Chatterton.=
I thought of Chatterton, the marvellous boy,?The sleepless soul that perish'd in his pride.?Of him who walk'd in glory and in joy,?Following his plough along the mountain side.?301?WORDSWORTH: Res. and Indep., St. 7.
=Chaucer.=
Dan Chaucer, well of English undefyled,?On Fame's eternall beadroll worthie to be fyled.?302?SPENSER: Faerie Queene, Bk. iv., Canto ii., St. 32.
=Cheating.=
Doubtless the pleasure is as great,?Of being cheated as to cheat.?303?BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto iii., Line 1.
=Cheerfulness.=
It is good?To lengthen to the last a sunny mood.?304?JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: Legend of Brittany, Pt. i., St. 35.
=Chickens.=
To swallow gudgeons ere they 're catch'd,?And count their chickens ere they 're hatch'd.?305?BUTLER: Hudibras, Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 923.
=Chiding.=
Chide him for faults, and do it reverently,?When you perceive his blood inclined to mirth.?306?SHAKS.: 2 Henry IV., Sc. 4.
=Child--Childhood--Children.=
Ah! what would the world be to us?If the children were no more??We should dread the desert behind us?Worse than the dark before.?307?LONGFELLOW: Children.
Behold the child, by nature's kindly law,?Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.?308?POPE: Essay on Man. Epis. ii., Line 275.
The child is father of the man.?309?WORDSWORTH: My Heart Leaps, Line 7.
Children are the keys of Paradise.?They alone are good and wise,?Because their thoughts, their very lives are prayer?310?R.H. STODDARD: The Children's Prayer.
I have had playmates, I have had companions,?In my days of childhood, in my joyful school-days.?All, all are gone, the old familiar faces.?311?CHARLES LAMB: Old Familiar Faces.
As children gath'ring pebbles on the shore.?312?MILTON: Par. Regained, Bk. iv., Line 330.
Backward, turn backward, O Time, in your flight,?Make me a child again, just for to-night.?313?ELIZABETH AKERS ALLEN: Rock Me