Chapter LONDON to LOST of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LONDON to LOST

LONDON.—The very houses seem asleep;
And all that mighty heart is lying still!

Wordsworth.—Westminster Bridge at Night.

There lies a sleeping city.

H. Taylor.—Philip Van Artevelde, Act IV. Scene 1.

Creation sleeps. ’Tis as the general pulse
Of life stood still, and nature made a pause.

Young.—Night I. Line 23.

LOOK.—Look before you, ’ere you leap;
For as you sow y’ are like to reap.

Hudibras.—Canto II. Part II. Line 503.

Look here, upon this picture, and on this.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.)

Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good; or, knowing it, pursue.

Dryden.—Juvenal’s Satire, X.

That constellation set, the world in vain
Must hope to look upon their like again.

Cowper.—Table Talk, Line 661.

He was a man, take him for all in all,
I shall not look upon his like again.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (To Horatio.)

LOOKED.—Alone, amid the shades,
Still in harmonious intercourse they liv’d
The rural day, and talked the flowing heart,
Or sigh’d, and look’d unutterable things.

Thomson.—Summer, Line 1185.

LOOKS.—And looks commèrcing with the skies,
Thy rapt soul sitting in thine eyes.

Milton.—Il Penseroso, Line 39.

Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 329.

He looks like a writ of inquiry into their titles and estates.

Congreve.—Love for Love, Act I. Scene 2.

LORD.—Lord of useless thousands.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 314.

Lord of the lion heart and eagle eye!

Smollett.—Ode to Independence.

And there began a lang digression
About the lords o’ the creation.