Chapter CREATURE to CUCKOO of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CREATURE to CUCKOO

CREATURE.—The creature’s at his dirty work again.

Pope.—Epi. to Arbuthnot.

Millions of spiritual creatures walk the earth
Unseen, both when we wake, and when we sleep.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 677.

CREED.—I make no man’s creed but my own.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. VIII. Chap. 8.

CRIMES.—Tremble thou wretch,
That hast within thee undivulged crimes,
Unwhipp’d of justice.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 2. (The King.)

CRIPPLE.—Amongst all honest christian people,
Whoe’er breaks limbs maintains the cripple.

Prior.—To Fleetwood Shepard, Esq.

CRITIC.—I am nothing if not critical.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act II. Scene 1. (Iago to Desdemona.)

Blame where you must, be candid where you can,
And be each critic the good-natured man.

Goldsmith.—Epi. to “Good-natured Man.”

Ah, ne’er so dire a thirst of glory boast,
Nor in the critic let the man be lost.

Pope.—Essay on Criticism, Part II. Line 523.

CROSS.—On her white breast a sparkling cross she wore,
Which Jews might kiss, and Infidels adore.

Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto II. Line 7.

Near to that spot where Charles bestrides a horse,
In humble prose the place is Charing Cross.

Foote.—Prol. to The Englishman Returned from Paris, Line 12.

CROTCHET.—Thou hast some crotchets in thy head now.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act II. Scene 1. (Mrs. Ford to her Husband.)

CROW.—The impudent crow with full throat invites the rain, and solitary stalks by herself on the dry sand.

Davidson’s Virgil.—(Buckley), Georgics, Book 1.p.45.

CROW.—If the old shower-foretelling crow
Croak not her boding note in vain,
To-morrow’s eastern storm shall strow
The woods with leaves, with weeds the main.

Francis’ Horace.—Book III. Ode XVII. Line 9.

It warn’t for nothing that the raven was croaking on my left hand.

Riley’s Plautus.—Vol. I. The Aulularia, Act IV. Scene 3.