Chapter HONOURING to HOPE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

See some fit passion every age supply;
Hope travels through, nor quits us when we die.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 273.

Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And freedom shriek’d, as Kosciusko fell!

Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part I.

I see some sparkles of a better hope.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 3. (Bolingbroke to Percy.)

Hopes and fears that equally attend.

Cowley.—Constantia and Philetus, Verse 1.

HOPE.—Alike distracted between hope and fear.

Cowley.—Ibid. Verse 18.

The wretch condemn’d with life to part,
Still, still on hope relies,
And every pang that rends the heart
Bids expectation rise.
Hope, like the glimmering taper’s light,
Adorns and cheers the way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.

Goldsmith.—Song from the “Captivity.”

The miserable have no other medicine,
But only hope.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 1. (Claudio to the Duke.)

Hope and fear alternate chase
Our course through life’s uncertain race.

Scott.—Rokeby, Canto VI. Stanza 2.

This distant gleam of hope: this poor reversion.

Lillo.—Elmerick, Act II.

I beheld his body half wasted away with long expectation and confinement; and felt what kind of sickness of heart it was which arises from hope deferred.

Sterne.—Sent. Journey; the Captive.

The sickening pang of hope deferr’d.

Scott.—Lady of the Lake, Canto III. Stanza 22.

Hope deferred, maketh the heart sick.

Proverbs.—Chap. XIII. Verse 12.

Strive against hope.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act I. Scene 3.

Hope against hope, and ask till ye receive.

Jas. Montgomery.—The World before the Flood, Canto V.