Chapter FAVOURITE to FEELING of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FAVOURITE to FEELING

FAVOURITE.—Eight times emerging from the flood,
She mew’d to every watery god,
Some speedy aid to send.
No Dolphin came, no Nereid stirr’d,
Nor cruel Tom, nor Susan heard,
A favourite has no friend!

Gray.—On a Favourite Cat drowned, Verse 6.

FEAR.—The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom.

Psalm CXI. Verse 10.

The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace;
And makes all ills that vex us here to cease.

Waller.—The Fear of God, Canto I. Line 1.

FEAR.—Have you not mark’d a partridge quake,
Viewing the towering falcon nigh?
She criddles low behind the brake:
Nor would she stay; nor dares she fly.

Prior.—The Dove, Verse 14.

’Tis listening fear, and dumb amazement all.

Thomson.—Summer.

Hang those that talk of fear.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3. (To Seyton.)

Yet I do fear thy nature;
It is too full o’ the milk of human kindness,
To catch the nearest way.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5. (Lady Macbeth reading her husband’s Letter.)

FEAST.—There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl,
The feast of reason and the flow of soul.

Pope.—Horace imitated, Sat. I. Line 127. (To Fortescue.)

The latter end of a fray, and the beginning of a feast,
Fits a dull fighter, and a keen guest.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act IV. Scene 2. (Falstaff.)

They have been at a great feast of languages, and stolen the scraps.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 1. (Moth to Costard.)

FEEL.—But spite of all the criticising elves,
Those who would make us feel, must feel themselves.

Churchill.—The Rosciad, Line 961.

The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost;
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Pope.—Eloisa to Abelard, Line 365.

FEELING.—A vet’ran see! whose last act on the stage
Entreats your smiles for sickness and for age;
Their cause I plead; plead it in heart and mind;
A fellow-feeling makes one wondrous kind!

Garrick.—Prologue to “The Wonder,” a play by Mrs. Centlivre. Murphy’s Life of Garrick, Vol. II. Page 131.