Chapter DEVELOPED to DIE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DIE.—Shall I, wasting in dispaire,
Dye because a woman’s faire?
Or make pale my cheeks with care
’Cause another’s rosie are?
Be shee fairer then the day,
Or the flow’ry meads in May;
If she be not so to me,
What care I how faire shee be?

Geo. Wither.—From the “Mistresse of Philarete,” Vol, I. 3 Percy Reliques, Page 245.

Die all! die nobly! die like demi-gods!

Reynolds.—The Dramatist, Act IV. Scene 2.

At least we’ll die with harness on our backs.

Shakespeare—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5. (Macbeth.)

Ay, but to die, and go we know not where;
To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 1. (Claudio to Isabella.)

It is appointed once for all to die.

Lillo.—The Christian Hero, Act III.

To die,—to sleep,—
No more; and, by a sleep, to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That flesh is heir to,—tis a consummation
Devoutly to be wish’d.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (His Soliloquy on Life and Death.)

DIE.—To die,—to sleep;—
To sleep! perchance to dream;—ay, there’s the rub;
For in that sleep of death what dreams may come,
When we have shuffled off this mortal coil,
Must give us pause.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. Act III. Scene 1. (The Soliloquy continued.) See “Whips.”

What pity is it
That we can die but once to serve our country.

Addison.—Cato, Act IV.

But shall die like men; and fall like one of the princes.

Psalm LXXXII. Verse 7.

Acquit yourselves like men.

Lillo.—The Christian Hero, Act V.

It is as natural to die as to be born; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painful as the other.

Bacon.—On Death, Essay II.

The slender debt to nature ’s quickly paid,
Discharged, perchance, with greater ease than made.

Quarles.—Book II. No. XIII. Line 17.