Chapter HEAVEN to HISTORY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

HEAVEN to HISTORY

HEAVEN.—But heaven hath a hand in these events;
To whose high will we bound our calm contents.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 2.

Heaven looks down on earth with all her eyes.

Young.—Night VII. Part II. Line 1094.

A heaven on earth I have won, by wooing thee.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act IV. Scene 2. (Bertram to Diana.) And see Milton, Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 208.

Heaven is above all yet; there sits a judge
That no king can corrupt.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 1. (Queen Katherine.)

HEDGES.—For by old proverbs it appears,
That walls have tongues, and hedges ears.

Swift.—Pastoral Dialogue.

HELL.—The hungry wretch of a Greek would attempt heaven even, were you to bid him.

Juvenal.—Quoted by Riley in his Class. Dict. 137.

And bid him go to Hell, to Hell he goes.

Dr. Johnson.—London, Line 116.

In hope to merit Heaven by making earth a Hell.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza XX. Line 9.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum.

HELL.—Hell is paved with good intentions.

Boswell’s Johnson.—April, 1775.

HELP.—Help your lame dog o’er the stile.

Swift.—Whig and Tory.

’Tis not enough to help the feeble up,
But to support him after.

Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act I. Scene 1. (Timon to Ventidius’s servant.)

HENPECKED.—Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife,
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend’s secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain lecture worse than hell.
Were such the wife had fallen to my part,
I’d break her spirit, or I’d break her heart.

Burns.—The Henpecked Husband.