Chapter CONSTABLE to CONVERSE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 215.

I am quite my own master, agreeably lodged, perfectly easy in my circumstances. I am contented with my situation, and happy because I think myself so.

Le Sage.—Gil Blas, Book VII. Chap. 13.

All things on earth thus change, some up, some down;
Content’s a kingdom, and I wear that crown.

Heywood.—A Woman Kill’d with Kindness.

CONTENTIONS.—Contentions fierce,
Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause.

Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XL. quoting “Albion.”

In this contention, it is difficult to say which party succeeded.

Fielding.—Joseph Andrews.

CONTEST.—Between nose and eyes, a strange contest arose,
The spectacles set them unhappily wrong;
The point in dispute was, as all the world knows,
To which the said spectacles ought to belong.

Cowper.—Report of an Adjudged Case.

CONTRITE.—Prostrate my contrite heart I rend:
My God, my Father, and my Friend!
Do not forsake me in my end!

Roscommon.—Day of Judgment, Verse 17.

CONVERSE.—Studious let me sit,
And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

Thomson.—Winter, Line 431.