Chapter GLOW-WORM to GOD of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

GLOW-WORM to GOD

GLOW-WORM.—The glow-worm shews the matin to be near,
And ’gins to pale his ineffectual fire.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5. (The Ghost to Hamlet.)

Reading his breviary by the light of a glow-worm.

Foote.—Taste, Act II.

GO.—Go, lovely rose!

Waller.—A Song.

Go on, I’ll follow thee.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4. (To the Ghost.)

Told them, for supper, or for bed,
They might go on, and be worse sped.

Prior.—The Ladle, Line 91.

He must needs go that the devil drives.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act I. Scene 3. (Clown to the Countess.)

1. At once, good-night:—
Stand not upon the order of your going,
But go at once.
2. Good-night, and better health.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act III. Scene 4. (Lady Macbeth to the Guests.)

Master, go on; and I will follow thee,
To the last gasp, with truth and loyalty.

Shakespeare.—As you Like it, Act II. Scene 3. (Adam to Orlando.)

GOD.—God tempers the wind to the shorn lamb.

Sterne.—Sentimental Journey, Maria.

[This idea is said to have been stolen by Sterne from George Herbert, who wrote “To a close shorn sheep, God gives wind by measure” (see his Jacula Prudentum); and he is said to have translated it from Henri Etienne (Henry Stephens 2nd). Virgil instructs us to “Feed the lambs at the setting of the sun, when cool vesper tempers the air.”—Georgics, Book III. Line 336.]

GOD.—May He, who gives the rain to pour,
And wings the blast to blaw,
Protect thee frae the driving show’r,
The bitter frost and snaw.

Burns.—To a Posthumous Child.

God the first garden made, and the first city, Cain.

Cowley.—The Garden.

God made the country, and man made the town.

Cowper.—The Sofa, Line 749.

God never made his work for man to mend.

Dryden.—Poems, Epistle XIII. Line 95.