Chapter COMPARE to CONDUCT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

COMPARE to CONDUCT

COMPARE.—So I had known whelps like dogs, so kids like their dams: thus I was wont to compare great things with small.

Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Page 2.

So, if great things to small may be compar’d,
Xerxes, the liberty of Greece to yoke,
From Susa, his Memnonian palace high,
Came to the sea; and, over Hellespont
Bridging his way, Europe with Asia join’d,
And scourg’d with many a stroke the indignant waves.

Milton.—Par. Lost, Book X.

If I may be allowed to compare little matters with great ones, Anaphis also loved me.

Riley’s Ovid.—Meta., Page 174.

COMPARISON.—One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun
Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Romeo to Benvolio.)

Compare her face with some that I shall show,
And it will make thee think thy swan a crow.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (Benvolio to Romeo.)

To seek through the regions of the earth
For one his like, there would be something failing
In him that should compare.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 1.

To me he seems like diamond to glass.

Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act II. Scene 3. (Thaisa to Pericles.)

COMPARISONS.—No caparisons, miss, if you please,
Caparisons don’t become a young woman.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.

Comparisons are oderous.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado about Nothing, Act III. Scene 5. (Dogberry.)

To liken them to your auld-warld squad,
I must needs say comparisons are odd.

Burns.—Brigs of Ayr.

COMPARISONS.—Comparisons are odious.

Burton.—Anat. of Mel., Part III. Section III. Mem. 1, sub. 2;

George Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.

Heywood.—A Woman Kill’d with Kindness, Act I. Scene 1.

COMPASS.—A rusted nail, placed near the faithful compass,
Will sway it from the truth, and wreck the argosy.

Scott.—The Talisman, Chap. XXIV. quoting “The Crusade.”