Chapter LAND to LAUGH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LAND to LAUGH

LAND.—Yon sun that sets upon the sea,
We follow in his flight;
Farewell awhile to him and thee,
My native land—good-night!

Byron.—Childe Harold, a Song following Stanza 13, Canto I.

I’m still quite out at sea; nor see the shore.

Young.—Night IX. Line 1458.

I see land.

Diogenes.—Riley’s Dict. 533.

LANDSCAPE.—Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view?

Dyer.—Grongar Hill, Line 103.

Heavens! what a goodly prospect spreads around,
Of hills, and dales, and woods, and lawns, and spires,
And glittering towers, and gilded streams, till all
The stretching landscape into smoke decays!

Thomson.—Summer.

New scenes arise, new landscapes strike the eye,
And all th’ enliven’d country beautify.

Thomson—Castle of Indolence, Canto II. Stanza 27.

Thus I (which few, I think, can boast)
Have made a landscape of a post.

George Combe.—Doctor Syntax, Chap. II.

LANGUAGE.—She ceas’d, and ere his words her fate decreed,
Impatient watch’d the language of his eye:
There pity dwelt.

Shenstone.—Love and Honour.

LARK.—The lark, that shuns on lofty bough to build.

Waller—A Song. Of the Queen.

The busy lark, the messenger of day.

Chaucer.—The Knight’s Tale, Line 1493.

Not a lark, that calls
The morning up, shall build on any turf
But she shall be thy tenant, call thee lord,
And for her rent pay thee in change of songs.

Ford.—The Sun’s Darling, Act II. Scene 1

LARK.—It was the lark, the herald of the morn,
No nightingale.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Scene 5. (Romeo to Juliet.)

LASH.—With unsparing hand,
Oh, lash the vile impostors from the land!

Canning.—New Morality.

O, heaven! that such companions thou’dst unfold;
And put in every honest hand a whip,
To lash the rascals naked through the world.