Chapter ILLS to IMPERFECTIONS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

ILLS to IMPERFECTIONS

ILLS.—Mark what ills the scholar’s life assail,
Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

Dr. Johnson.—Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 159.

What ills from beauty spring.

Dr. Johnson.—Ibid. Line 321.

ILLS.—Those ills that wait on all below,
Shall ne’er be felt by me;
Or gently felt, and only so,
As being shared with thee.

Cowper.—The Doves, Verse 5.

And makes us rather bear those ills we have,
Than fly to others that we know not of.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1. (In his famous Soliloquy.)

Keep what you’ve got; the evil that we know is the best.

Riley’s Plautus.—Volume I., The Trinummus, Act I. Scene 2.

’Tis hard for kings to steer an equal course,
And they who banish one, oft gain a worse.

Dryden.—Tarquin and Tullia.

IMAGINATION.—Imagination fondly stoops to trace
The parlour-splendours of that festive place;
The white- wash’d wall, the nicely sanded floor,
The varnish’d clock, that click’d behind the door:
The chest contriv’d a double debt to pay,
A bed by night, a chest of drawers by day.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 225.

You are oblig’d to your imagination for more than three-fourths of your importance.

Garrick.—Lethe.

The right honourable gentleman is indebted to his memory for his jests, and to his imagination for his facts.

Sheridan.—Speech in reply to Dundas.

IMMODEST.—Immodest words admit of no defence,
For want of decency is want of sense.

Roscommon.—Essay I. on Verse.

IMPEACHMENT.—Sir Lucius O’Trigger, ungrateful as you are, I own the soft impeachment.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 3.

IMPERFECTIONS.—Piece out our imperfections with your thoughts.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Chorus.

And the poor slattern muse is brought to bed,
With all her imperfections on her head.

Churchill.—Gotham, Book II.

IMPERFECTIONS.—Sent to my account
With all my imperfections on my head.