Chapter DRINKING to DUST of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

He that is drunken may his mother kill
Big with his sister: he hath lost the reins,
Is outlaw’d by himself: all kind of ill
Did with his liquor slide into his veins.
The drunkard forfeits Man, and doth divest
All worldly right, save what he hath by beast.

George Herbert.—The Temple, Stanza 6.

Some folks are drunk, yet do not know it.

Prior.—Ballad on taking Namur.

DUDGEON.—When civil dudgeon first grew high,
And men fell out, they knew not why;
When hard words, jealousies, and fears,
Set folks together by the ears—

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 1.

DULNESS.—Yet let not each gay turn thy rapture move,
For fools admire, but men of sense approve:
As things seem large which we through mists descry,
Dulness is ever apt to magnify.

Pope.—On Criticism, Line 390.

Glory and gain the industrious tribe provoke;
And gentle dulness ever loves a joke.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book II. Line 33.

DUNGEON—He that hides a dark soul and foul thoughts,
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun;
Himself is his own dungeon.

Milton.—Comus, Line 383.

DUST.—A heap of dust alone remains of thee,
’Tis all thou art, and all the proud shall be.

Pope.—To the Memory of a Lady.

DUST.—What is pomp, rule, reign, but earth and dust?
And, live we how we can, yet die we must.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act V. Scene 2. (Warwick.)

Clay and clay differs in dignity,
Whose dust is both alike.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2. (Imogen to Aviragus.)

Mean and mighty, rotting
Together, have one dust.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act IV. Scene 2. (Belarius.)