Chapter DUTY to EAR of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DUTY to EAR

DUTY.—Trimm’d in forms and visages of duty.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Iago.)

Never any thing can be amiss
When simpleness and duty tender it.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.)

My noble father,
I do perceive here a divided duty:
To you, I am bound for life and education;
My life and education both do learn me
How to respect you; you are the lord of duty;—
I am hitherto your daughter: But here’s my husband.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (Desdemona to her Father.)

Stern daughter of the voice of God!

Wordsworth.—Ode to Duty, Vol. V. Page 46.

Duty demands, the parent’s voice
Should sanctify the daughter’s choice,
In that, is due obedience shewn;
To choose, belongs to her alone.

Ed. Moore.—Fable VI.

Thanks to the gods! my boy has done his duty.

Addison.—Cato, Act IV. Scene 4.

DYING.—’Tis a vile thing to die, my gracious lord,
When men are unprepar’d, and look not for it.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act III. Scene 2. (Catesby to Hastings.)

EAGLE.—That eagle’s fate and mine are one,
Which, on the shaft that made him die,
Espy’d a feather of his own,
Wherewith he wont to soar so high.

Waller.—To a Lady singing.

Like a young eagle, who has lent his plume
To fledge the shaft by which he meets his doom.

Tom Moore.—Corruption, Vol. III. Page 25.

So the struck eagle,
View’d his own feather on the fatal dart,
And wing’d the shaft that quivered in his heart;
Keen were his pangs, but keener far to feel
He nurs’d the pinion which impelled the steel.

Byron.—English Bards. (On Kirke White.)

EAR.—Give every man thine ear, but few thy voice:
Take each man’s censure, but reserve thy judgment.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to Laertes.)

Bosom up my counsel,
You’ll find it wholesome.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act I. Scene 1. (Northumberland to Buckingham.)

Make not my ear
A stranger to thy thoughts.

Addison.—Cato, Act II.