Chapter DE MORTUIS NIL NISI BONUM to DEATH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Fawkes.—The Brown Jug, a Song.

DEATH.—O proud death!
What feast is toward in thine eternal cell,
That thou so many princes, at a shoot,
So bloodily hast struck?

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2. (Fontinbras.)

The rest is silence.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (Hamlet dying.)

Look down,
And see what death is doing.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 2. (Paulina to Leontes.)

In the midst of life we are in death.

Burial Service.

Death finds us ’mid our play-things—snatches us,
As a cross nurse might do a wayward child,
From all our toys and baubles. His rough call
Unlooses all our favourite ties on earth;
And well if they are such as may be answer’d
In yonder world, where all is judged of truly.

Old Play; and see Seneca, Epi. XXIII.

The farthest from the fear,
Are often nearest to the stroke of fate.

Young.—Night V. Line 790.

DEATH.—What day, what hour, but knocks at human hearts,
To wake the soul to sense of future scenes?
Deaths stand like Mercurys, in every way,
And kindly point us to our journey’s end.

Young.—Night VII. Line 2.

The hour conceal’d, and so remote the fear,
Death still draws nearer, never seeming near.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 75.

Death lies on her, like an untimely frost,
Upon the sweetest flower of all the field.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act IV. Scene 5. (Capulet on seeing Juliet apparently dead.)

Death lays his icy hands on kings.

Anonymous.—1 Percy Reliques, Book III. Page 284. Death’s Final Conquest.

His tongue is now a stringless instrument.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act II. Scene 1. (Northumberland to the King, announcing Gaunt’s death.)

All that lives must die,
Passing through nature to eternity.

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

From the first corse, till he that died to day,
This must be so.
Why should we, in our peevish opposition,
Take it to heart?

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (The King to Hamlet.)