Chapter DAFFODILS to DARED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DAFFODILS to DARED

DAFFODILS.—Daffodils,
That come before the swallow dares.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Scene 3. (Perdita to Florizel.)

DAGGER.—Is this a dagger which I see before me,
The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene I. (Macbeth solus.)

DAMES.—Ah, gentle dames! it gars me greet,
To think how mony counsels sweet,
How mony lengthen’d sage advices,
The husband frae the wife despises!

Burns.—Tam o’Shanter, Line 33.

DAMN.—Damn with faint praise, assent with civil leer,
And without sneering, teach the rest to sneer.

Pope.—Epi. to Arbuthnot, Line 201.

Or ravish’d with the whistling of a name,
See Cromwell damn’d to everlasting fame.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 283.

DANCE.—When you do dance, I wish you
A wave o’ the sea, that you might ever do
Nothing but that.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Scene 3. (Florizel to Perdita.)

To dance attendance on their lordships’ pleasures.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII., Act V. Scene 2. (The King to Butts.)

Light quirks of music, broken and uneven,
Make the soul dance upon a jig to heaven.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. IV. Line 143.

DANCING.—The dancing pair, that simply sought renown,
By holding out, to tire each other down.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 25.

Though civil persons they, you ruder were,
And had more humours than a dancing bear.

Rowe.—Tonson and Congreve.

DANGER.—Keep together here, lest, running thither,
We unawares run into danger’s mouth.

Milton.—Samson Agonistes.

I’ll read you matter deep and dangerous.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV., Part I. Act I. Scene 3. (Worcester to Hotspur.)

Out of this nettle, danger, we pluck this flower, safety.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. Part I. Act II. Scene 3. (Hotspur, reading a Letter of caution.)

DAISY.—There! is Mosgiel farm; and that’s the very field where Burns ploughed up the daisy.

Wordsworth.—Vol. V. Page 243.