Chapter EPHRAIM to EVE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Genesis.—Chap. XIX. Verses 17, 26.

ESCORT.—Come, girls! this gentleman will exhort us.—
Come, sir, you’re our envoy—lead the way, and we’ll precede.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

ESTATES.—Oh, gods, that easy grant men great estates,
But hardly grace to keep them.

Marlowe.—Lucan, Book I.(Bell’s Ed. Page 251.)

ETERNITY.—Eternity! thou pleasing, dreadful thought!
Through what variety of untried being,
Through what new scenes and changes must we pass?
The wide, th’ unbounded prospect lies before me,
But shadows, clouds, and darkness rest upon it.
Here will I hold.

Addison.—Cato, Act V. Scene 1.

EUXINE.—There’s not a sea the passenger e’er pukes in,
Turns up more dangerous breakers than the Euxine.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto V. Stanza 5.

EVE.—They thought no ill:
So hand in hand they passed, the loveliest pair,
That ever since in love’s embraces met;
Adam the goodliest man of men since born
His sons, the fairest of her daughters Eve.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV.

Neither her outside form’d so fair, nor aught
So much delights me, as those graceful acts,
Those thousand decencies that daily flow
From all her words and action.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book, VIII. Line 596.

EVE.—Her virtue and the conscience of her worth,
That would be woo’d, and not unsought be won.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VIII. Line 502.