Chapter DISOBEDIENCE to DIVINE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Wishes, like painted landscapes, best delight,
Whilst distance recommends them to the sight:
Plac’d afar off, they beautiful appear:
But shew their coarse and nauseous colours, near.

Dr. Yalden.—Against Enjoyment, Line 25.

DISTRESS.—Affliction’s sons are brothers in distress,
A brother to relieve, how exquisite the bliss.

Burns.—Winter Night, last Lines of the quoted strain in Verse 6.

DIVINE.—The virgins are soft as the roses they twine,
And all, save the spirit of man, is divine.

Byron.—The Bride of Abydos, Canto I. Stanza 1.

It is a good divine that follows his own instructions.

Shakespeare.—The Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 2. (Portia to Nerissa.)

For ever singing as they shine
The hand that made us is divine.

Addison.—An Ode.

I wish there was not a polemic divine, said Yorick, in the kingdom; one ounce of practical divinity, is worth a painted ship-load of all their reverences have imported these fifty years.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. V.Chap.XXVIII.