Chapter MINISTER to MIRTH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MINISTER to MIRTH

Queen. Thou talk’st as if thou wert a king.
K. Henry. Why, so I am in mind.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act III. Scene 1.

The mind is its own place, and in itself
Can make a heaven of hell, a hell of heaven.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 254.

Behold yon pair in strict embraces join’d;
How like in manners, and how like in mind!

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book III. Line 179.

A mind diseased no remedy can physic—
Here the ship gave a lurch, and he grew sea-sick.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto II. Verse 19.

He that has treasures of his own
May leave the cottage or the throne,
May quit the globe, and dwell alone
Within his spacious mind.
Locke hath a soul wide as the sea,
Calm as the night, bright as the day,
There may his vast ideas play,
Nor feel a thought confin’d.

Dr. Watts.—Lyric Poems, To John Locke, Esq. Verse 2.

When I view my spacious soul,
And survey myself a whole,
And enjoy myself alone,
I’m a kingdom of my own.

Dr. Watts.—Lyric Poems, True Riches.

The voyage of the mind.

Cowley.—To Colonel Tuke.

In my mind’s eye, Horatio.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.

MINISTER.—Nature too unkind,
That made no medicine for a troubled mind!

Beaumont and Fletcher.—Philaster, Act III. Scene 1.

MINISTER.—1. Canst thou not minister to a mind diseas’d?
Pluck from the memory a rooted sorrow;
Raze out the written troubles of the brain;
And, with some sweet oblivious antidote,
Cleanse the stuff’d bosom of that perilous stuff,
Which weighs upon the heart?
2. Therein the patient
Must minister to himself.
1. Throw physic to the dogs, I’ll none of it.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 3.

MINSTREL.—The way was long, the wind was cold,
The minstrel was infirm and old;
His wither’d cheek, and tresses grey,
Seem’d to have known a better day.

Walter Scott.—Introduction to the Last Minstrel.

The last of all the bards was he
Who sung of Border chivalry.

Walter Scott.—Ibid. Line 7.

MIRROR.—Who teach the mind its proper force to scan,
And hold the faithful mirror up to man.