Chapter GRIN to GULL of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

GRIN to GULL

GRIN.—His comrades’ terrors to beguile,
Grinn’d horribly a ghastly smile.

Churchill.—The Ghost, Book II.

He ceas’d, for both seem’d highly pleas’d, and
Death grinn’d horrible a ghastly smile, to hear
His famine should be fill’d, and blest his maw
Destin’d to that good hour.

Milton.—Par. Lost, Book II. Line 846.

Not even one was willing to imitate a dog when provoked; if they didn’t laugh, they might, at least, have grinn’d with their teeth.

Riley’s Plautus.—The Captive, Act III. Scene 1. Page 448.

They grin like a dog, and run about through the city.

Psalm LIX. Verse 6.

GROUND.—1. How came he mad?
2. Very strangely, they say.
1. How strangely?
2. ’Faith e’en with losing his wits.
1. Upon what ground?
2. Why, here in Denmark.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet and the First Clown.)

GROVE.—Grove nods at grove, each alley has a brother,
And half the platform just reflects the other.

Pope.—Moral Essays, 4. To Burlington.

GROVE.—Star nods to star, each system has its brother,
And half the universe reflects the other.

Rev.George Gilfiillan.—A Parody on the above.

GROVES.—But a house is much more to my taste than a tree;
And for groves—O! a good grove of chimneys for me!

Morris.—A Song.

GROW.—The young disease which must subdue at length,
Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.

Pope.—On Man, Epi. II. S. 3.

GRUDGE.—If I can catch him once upon the hip,
I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Shylock’s malice.)

GRUEL.—Hail! water-gruel, healing power,
Of easy access to the poor;
Thy help love’s confessors implore,
And doctors secretly adore.

Green.—The Spleen, Line 55.

GUARDIAN.—A guardian-angel o’er his life presiding,
Doubling his pleasures, and his cares dividing.

Rogers.—Human Life.

GUEST.—Unbidden guests
Are often welcomest when they are gone.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. Scene 2. (Bedford to Talbot.)