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

No shape-smith set up shop, and drove a trade,
To mend the work wise Providence had made.

Garth.—Claremont, Line 98.

Immediate are the acts of God, more swift
Than time or motion.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book, VII. Line 176.

Happy the man who sees a God employ’d
In all the good and ill that chequer life!

Cowper.—The Task, Book II. Line 161.

Not a flower
But shows some touch, in freckle, streak, or stain,
Of his unrivall’d pencil.

Cowper.—The Task, Book VI. Line 240.

Acquaint thyself with God, if thou wouldst taste His works.

Cowper.—The Task, Book V. Line 779.

The father, who is holy, wise, and pure,
Suffers the hypocrite or atheous priest
To tread his sacred courts, and minister
About his altar, handling holy things,
Praying or vowing; and vouchsafed his voice
To Balaam reprobate, a prophet yet inspir’d.

Milton.—Paradise Regained, Book I.

Let no presuming impious railer tax
Creative wisdom, as if aught was form’d
In vain,—
Shall little haughty ignorance pronounce
His works unwise, of which the smallest part
Exceeds the narrow vision of her mind?

Thomson.—Summer.

GOD.—Doth this man serve God?

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act V. Scene 2. (Princess to Biron.)

God never meant that man should scale the heavens
By strides of human wisdom—in his works,
Though wondrous; He commands us in his Word
To seek him rather, where his mercy shines.

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 221.

Oh blindness to the future! kindly given,
That each may fill the circle mark’d by Heaven.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 85. “As sure as God’s in Gloucestershire.” A saying originating from the number and riches of the religious houses in this county; said to be double in number and value to those founded in any other in England.

Grose, Page 174.

God and Saint George! Saint George and victory!

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act IV. Scenes 2 and 6.

God defend the right!

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 1; King Henry VI. Part II. Act II. Scene 3; King Richard II. Act I. Scene 3, and Act III. Scene 2; Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 1; and King John, Act II. Scene 1. for similar passages.