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

And scaly dragons hiss, and lions roar,
Where wisdom taught, and music charm’d before.

Lillo.—Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 1.

HISTORY.—I will answer you by quoting what I have read, somewhere or other, in Dionysius Halicarnassensis. I think, that history is philosophy teaching by examples.

Bolingbroke.—On the Study and Use of History, Letter II. Vol. III. Page 323.

Read their history in a nation’s eyes.

Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 16.

HISTORY.—There is a history in all men’s lives,
Figuring the nature of the times deceas’d:
The which observ’d, a man may prophesy,
With a near aim, of the main chance of things
As yet not come to life; which in their seeds,
And weak beginnings, lie intreasured.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act III. Scene 1. (Warwick to King Henry.)