Chapter DARES to DAYS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DARES to DAYS

DARES.—What, though success will not attend on all,
Who bravely dares must sometimes risk a fall.

Smollett.—Advice, Line 207.

DARK.—At one stride came the dark.

Coleridge.—The Ancient Mariner.

DARKNESS VISIBLE.—Of darkness visible so much be lent,
As half to show, half veil the deep intent.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 3.

Darkness visible.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 63.

Darkness, thou first great parent of us all,
Thou art our great original!

Yalden.—Hymn.

DAUGHTER.—The mother to her daughter spake,
Daughter, said she, arise;
Thy daughter to her daughter take,
Whose daughter’s daughter cries.

Riley’s Dictionary of Classical Quotations, 221.

[A distich, according to Zuinglius, on a lady of the family of the Dalburgs, who saw her descendants to the sixth generation.]

Had he no friend—no daughter dear,
His wandering toil to share and cheer;
No son to be his father’s stay,
And guide him in the rugged way?

Scott.—Last Minstrel, conclusion of Canto III.

If a daughter you have, she’s the plague of your life,
No peace shall you know, though you’ve buried your wife!
At twenty she mocks at the duty you taught her—
Oh, what a plague is an obstinate daughter!

Sheridan.—The Duenna, Act I. Scene 3.

My daughter was ever a good girl.

Murphy.—Three Weeks after Marriage, Act II.

DAY.—One day in thy courts is better than a thousand.

Psalm LXXXIV. Verse 10.

Empire and love! the vision of a day.

Young.—Force of Religion, Book I. Line 94.

DAY.—One day spent well, and agreeably to your precepts, is preferable to an eternity of error.

Yonge’s Cicero.—Tusculan Disp. Book V. Division 2.

Frail empire of a day!
That with the setting sun extinct is lost.

Somerville.—Hobbinol, Canto III. Line 326.