Chapter EARLY to EARTH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

See through this air, this ocean, and this earth.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 233.

Earth, air, and ocean, glorious three.

Robert Montgomery.—On Woman.

Earth, ocean, air, beloved brotherhood!

Shelley.—The Alastor.

By Him who made the ocean, earth, and air.

Pope.—January and May, Line 208.

Air, earth, and seas, obey’d th’ Almighty nod,
And with a general fear confess’d the God.

Dryden.—Ovid’s Meta. Book I.

Upon this he has power given him over three spirits; one for earth, another for air, and a third for the sea.

Goldsmith.—Essays; Rules for raising the Devil.

Thou sure and firm-set earth,
Hear not my steps, which way they walk, for fear
The very stones prate of my whereabout,
And take the present horror from the time,
Which now suits with it.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 1. (In the Dagger scene.)

EARTH.—All heaven resounded, and had earth been then,
All earth had to her centre shook.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VI. Line 217.