Chapter MODULATION to MOON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MODULATION to MOON

MODULATION.—’Tis not enough the voice be sound and clear,
’Tis modulation that must charm the ear.

Lloyd.—The Actor.

MOLLIFY.— Now mince the sin,
And mollify damnation with a phrase.

Dryden.—The Spanish Friar, Act V. Scene 1.

MONA.—Once hid from those who search the main.

Collins.—Ode to Liberty, Line 82.

MONARCH.—Who would not brave the battle-fire—the wreck—
To move the monarch of her peopled deck?

Byron.—The Corsair, Canto I. Stanza 3.

Monarchs seldom sigh in vain.

Scott.—Marmion, Canto V. Stanza 9.

I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute;
From the centre all round to the sea,
I am lord of the fowl and the brute.

Cowper.—Verses on Alexander Selkirk.

MONEY.—If at great things thou would’st arrive,
Get riches first, get health, and treasure heap,
Not difficult, if thou hearken to me:
Riches are mine, fortune is in my hand,
They whom I favour thrive in wealth amain,
While virtue, valour, wisdom, sit in want.

Milton.—Par. Regained, Book II.

Go, make money. Put money in your purse.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3.

O, what a world of vile ill-favour’d faults,
Looks handsome in three hundred pounds a-year!

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 4.

He that wants money, means, and content, is without three good friends.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act III. Scene 2.

My friend, get money; get a large estate
By honest means; but get—at any rate.

Francis’ Horace.—Book I. Epi. I. Line 93.

MONEY.—Get place and wealth, if possible, with grace,
If not, by any means get wealth and place.

Pope.—To Bolingbroke, Book I. Epi. I. Line 103.

MONSIEUR TONSON.—Away he went, and ne’er was heard of more.

Colman.—Monsieur Tonson.

MONSTER.—A faultless monster, which the world ne’er saw.