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HONOURING to HOPE

HONOURING.—Prithee, Trim, what dost thou mean by “honouring thy father and mother?”

Allowing them, an’ please your honour, three-halfpence a-day out of my pay, when they grow old.

Sterne.—Tristram Shandy, Vol. V. Chap. XXIII.

HONOURS.—This is the state of man: To-day he puts forth
The tender leaves of hopes, to-morrow blossoms,
And bears his blushing honours thick upon him.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey’s Soliloquy on his Fall.)

HOOK.—Through thick and thin, both over bank and bush,
In hopes her to attain by hook or crook.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book III. Canto I.

HOOP.—When Celia struts in man’s attire,
She shews too much to raise desire;
But from the hoop’s bewitching round,
The very shoe has power to wound.

Ed. Moore.—The spider and Bee, Line 27.

HOPE.—Hope springs eternal in the human breast,
Man never is, but always to be blest.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 95.

’Tis not for mortals always to be blest.

Armstrong.—Art of Preserving Health, Book IV. Line 260.

Hope springs exulting on triumphant wing.

Burns.—The Cottar’s Saturday Night.

Hope never comes that comes to all.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 66.

What a fine thing hope is!

Le Sage.—Gil Blas, Book IX. Chap. VII.

Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.

Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part I.

All, all forsook the friendless guilty mind,
But Hope, the charmer, linger’d still behind.

Campbell.—The Pleasures of Hope, Part I.

Where an equal poise of hope and fear
Does arbitrate the event, my nature is
That I incline to hope, rather than fear.

Milton.—Comus; Spenser.—Book IV. Canto VI. Stanza 37.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar;
Wait the great teacher, Death; and God adore.
What future bliss he gives not thee to know,
But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 91.