Chapter MANKIND to MARE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MANKIND to MARE

MANKIND.—Mankind by various arts ascend
The paths to eminence that tend.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—Nemean Ode I. Line 35.

And by th’ indulgent powers of heaven,
Success in various paths is given.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—Olympic Ode V. Line 20.

At common births the world feels nothing new;
At these she shakes; mankind lives in a few.

Ben Jonson.—Prince Henry’s Barriers.

MANNER.—Costard. The matter is to me, sir, as concerning Jaquenetta. The manner of it is, I was taken with the manner.

Biron. In what manner?

Costard. In manner and form following, sir; all those three; I was seen with her in the manor-house, sitting with her upon the form, and taken following her into the park, which put together, is in manner and form following.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 1.

Olivia. What kind of man is he?

Malvolio. Why, of mankind.

Olivia. What manner of man?

Malvolio. Of very ill manner; he’ll speak with you, will you, or no.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act I. Scene 5.

MANNERS.—Our country manners give our betters way.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act I. Scene 1. (The Bastard to Queen Elinor.)

Manners make the man.

Motto of William of Wykeham.

Education makes the man.

Cawthorne.—Birth and Education of Genius.

MANNERS.—The attentive eyes,
That saw the manners in the face.

Dr. Johnson.—Epitaph for Hogarth.

Impartially their talents scan,
Just education forms the man.

Gay.—Fable XIV. Part 2.

Worth makes the man, and want of it the fellow,
The rest is all but leather, or prunella.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Line 203.

Meantime intent the fairest plan to find,
To form the manners and improve the mind.