Chapter EASE to EMBERS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

EASE to EMBERS

EASE.—Ease leads to habit, as success to ease,
He lives by rule who lives himself to please.

Crabbe.—Tales of the Hall, Book II.

He lives at ease that freely lives.

Barbour.—To Freedom, Line 4.

EASY.—`Tis as easy as lying.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (Hamlet to Guildenstern.)

EAT.—He hath eaten me out of house and home.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. Scene 1. (Hostess to Chief Justice.)

EAVES-DROPPER.—I’ll play the eaves-dropper.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (The King to Ratcliff.)

EBLANA.—The classic name for Dublin.
Eblana! much lov’d city, hail!
Where first I saw the light of day.

Derrick.—Boswell’s Johnson.

EDUCATION.—`Tis education forms the common mind,
Just as the twig is bent, the tree’s inclin’d.

Pope.—Moral Essays, I. Part II.

Just education forms the man.

Gay.—Fable XIV. Part II.

A free school
For th’ education of young gentlemen,
To study how to drink and take tobacco.

Randolph.—The Muses’ Looking-glass, Act III. Scene 1.

If you suffer your people to be ill educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them,— you first make thieves and then punish them!

Sir Thomas More.—Utopia, Page 21. (Bishop Burnett.)

ELIZABETH.—No scandal about Queen Elizabeth, I hope?

Sheridan.—The Critic, Act II. Scene 1.

When princess, she wàs at one time asked, what she thought of the words of our Saviour, “This is my body,” whether she thought it his true body that was in the sacrament? It is said, that after some pausing she thus answered:—

Christ was the word that spake it,
He took the bread and brake it;
And what that word did make it,
That I believe, and take it.

Goldsmith’s History of England, 38th Ed., by Taylor and Pinnock, published by Whittaker, 1848.

ELOQUENCE.—Pour the full tide of eloquence along,
Serenely pure, and yet divinely strong.

Pope.—Imitation of Horace, Book II. Epi. III. Line 171.