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

Goldsmith.—The Traveller.

An’ makes him quite forget his labour and his toil.

Burns.—The Cottar’s Saturday Night, Verse 3.

The little smiling cottage, warm embower’d;
The little smiling cottage, where at eve
He meets his rosy children at the door,
Prattling their welcomes, and his honest wife,
With good brown cake and bacon slice, intent
To cheer his hunger after labour hard.

Dyer.—The Fleece, Book I.

COUNCIL.—Want of judgment, Drollio;
An unlearned council,—I ever told you so,—
Never more heads nor ever less wit, believe it.

Suckling.—The Sad One, Act III. Scene 2.

COUNTENANCE.—A countenance more in sorrow than in anger.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Horatio to Hamlet.)

COUNTRY.—It is sweet and glorious to die for one’s country. Horace. Book III. Ode II.; and see Cicero in the Tusculan Disputations; Ben Jonson in the play of Catiline, Act III. Scene 2; and Beaumont and Fletcher, in the Faithful Friends, Act II. Scene 3.

COURAGE.—Remember now, when you meet your antagonist, do everything in a mild agreeable manner. Let your courage be as keen, but, at the same time, as polished, as your sword.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act III. Scene 4.

Courage never to submit or yield.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 108.

COURAGE.—Courage mounteth with occasion.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act II. Scene 1.(Austria to King Philip.)