Chapter MELTING MOOD to MERCHANT of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Gray.—Prospect of Eton College, Stanza 10.

Of such materials wretched men were made.

Byron.—The Lament of Tasso, Stanza VI. Line 11.

Let me have men about me that are fat;
Sleek-headed men, and such as sleep o’ nights:
Yond’ Cassius has a lean and hungry look,
He thinks too much: such men are dangerous.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act I. Scene 2.

Men must endure
Their going hence, even as their coming hither.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act V. Scene 2.

Men—
Are masters to their females, and their lords;
Then let your will attend on their awards.

Shakespeare.—Comedy of Errors, Act II. Scene 1. (Luciana to Adriana.)

MEND.—To wake the soul by tender strokes of art,
To raise the genius, and to mend the heart.

Pope.—Prol. to Addison’s Cato, Line 1.

MENTIONS.—To rest, the cushion and soft dean invite,
Who never mentions hell to ears polite.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. IV. to Burlington, Line 149.

MERCHANT.—The restless merchant, he that loves to steep
His brains in wealth, and lays his soul to sleep
In bags of bullion, sees th’ immortal crown,
And fain would mount, but ingots keep him down:
He brags to-day, perchance, and begs to-morrow:
He lent but now, wants credit now to borrow.
Blow, winds, the treasure’s gone, the merchant’s broke;
A slave to silver’s but a slave to smoke.

Quarles.—Book II. Emblem 4.

MERCHANT.—In Venice state
Where merchants gilt the top.

Marston.—What You Will, Act I.

Strike, louder strike, th’ ennobling strings,
To those whose merchant sons were kings.

Collins.—Ode to Liberty, Line 42.