Chapter LEARNING to LEPROSY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LEARNING to LEPROSY

LEARNING.—A little learning is a dangerous thing;
Drink deep, or taste not the Pierian spring.

Pope.—On Criticism, Part II. Line 215.

O this learning! what a thing it is!

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Scene 2. (Gremio to Lucentio.)

Learning by study must be won,
’Twas ne’er entailed from son to son.

Gay.—Fable XI. Part II. 1. Suppose we put a tax upon learning. 2. Learning, it is true, is a useless commodity, but I think we had better lay it on ignorance; for learning being the property but of a very few, and those poor ones too, I am afraid we can get little among them; whereas ignorance will take in most of the great fortunes in the kingdom.

Fielding.—The Historical Register for 1736, Act I. Scene 1.

LEAVE.—Leave the room, sir!

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act IV. Scene 2; Murphy, The Way to Keep Him, Act II. Scene 1; Massinger, The Renegado, Act III. Scene 3.

Leave this keen encounter of our wits,
And fall somewhat into a slower method.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 2. (Gloster to Anne.)

LEAVES.—A fresher green the smelling leaves display,
And glittering as they tremble, cheer the day.

Parnell.—The Hermit, Line 119.

LECTURE.—And every married man is certain,
T’ attend the lecture called the curtain.

Lloyd.—Epi. to J. B., Esq.

LECTURE.—Cursed be the man, the poorest wretch in life,
The crouching vassal to the tyrant wife;
Who has no will but by her high permission;
Who has not sixpence but in her possession;
Who must to her his dear friend’s secret tell;
Who dreads a curtain-lecture worse than hell.

Burns.—The Henpecked Husband.

LED.—Her hand he seiz’d; and to a shady bank,
Thick overhead with verdant roof imbower’d,
He led her, nothing loth.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 1037.

LEFT.—Nevertheless I have somewhat against thee, inasmuch as thou hast left thy first love.

St. John the Divine.—The Book of Revelations, Chap. II. Verse 4.

LEISURE.—Retired leisure,
That in trim gardens takes his pleasure.

Milton.—Il Penseroso.

I am never less at leisure than when at leisure, nor less alone than when I am alone.