Chapter COLOURS to COMPANY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

COLOURS to COMPANY

COLOURS.—Mocking the air with colours idly spread.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act V. Scene 1. (The Bastard to the King.)

COLUMN.—Where London’s column, pointing to the skies
Like a tall bully, lifts the head and lies.

Pope.—Moral Essays, to Bathurst, Epi. III. Line 339.

COMBINATION.—A combination, and a form, indeed,
Where every god did seem to set his seal,
To give the world assurance of a man.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (The Prince to his Mother.)

COME.—Come what come may;
Time and the hour runs through the roughest day.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 3. (Macbeth to Banquo.)

Come, live with me, and be my love.

Marlow.—A Song. It is also in Cotton, in his invitation to Phillis.

COMFORT.—That comfort comes too late;
’Tis like a pardon after execution:
That gentle physic, given in time, had cur’d me;
But now I am past all comforts here, but prayers.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act IV. Scene 2. (Katherine to Capucius.)

He receives comfort like cold porridge.

Shakespeare.—Tempest, Act II. Scene 1. (Sebastian to Alonzo.)

COMMEND.—Alike reserved to blame, or to commend,
A timorous foe, and a suspicious friend.

Pope.—Prologue to Satires, Line 205.

COMMENTATORS.—Some future strain, in which the muse shall tell
How science dwindles, and how volumes swell,
How commentators each dark passage shun,
And hold their farthing candle to the sun.

Young.—Love of Fame, Sat. VII. Line 95.

COMMON.—As common as a barber’s chair.

Burton.—Anat. of Melancholy, Ed. 1651. Page 665.

COMMON.—Like a barber’s chair, that fits all buttocks.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act II. Scene 2. (Clown to the Countess.)

As common as the stairs,
That mount the capitol.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 7. (Iachimo to Imogen.)

As common as the highway.

Old Proverb.—Knight’s Shak. Sup.

This comes of visiting commoners.

Garrick.—High Life below Stairs, Act II.