Chapter MOONLIGHT to MORNING of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MOONLIGHT to MORNING

MOONLIGHT.—How sweet the moonlight sleeps upon this bank!
Here will we sit.—Sit, Jessica.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act V. Scene 1.

MOOR.—Could you on this fair mountain leave to feed,
And batten on this moor?

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4.

MORAL.—He left the name at which the world grew pale,
To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

Dr. Johnson.—Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 221.

Our stage-play has a moral—and, no doubt,
You all have sense enough to find it out.

Gay.—What do Ye Call it? Epilogue.

MORN.—From morn
To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 742.

From morn till night, from night till startled morn.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto I. Stanza 54.

The sun had long since in the lap
Of Thetis taken out his nap,
And, like a lobster boil’d, the morn
From black to red began to turn.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto II. Line 29.

The morn that lights you to your love.

Collins.—Eclogue I. Line 23. (Selim.)

MORNING.—The day begins to break, and night is fled,
Whose pitchy mantle over-veil’d the earth.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. Scene 2.

The grey-ey’d morn smiles on the frowning night,
Checkering the eastern clouds with streaks of light.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 3.

Night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast,
And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger;
At whose approach, ghosts, wandering here and there,
Troop home to churchyards.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act III. Scene 2.

The silent hours steal on,
And flaky darkness breaks within the east.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3.

Morn,
Wak’d by the circling hours, with rosy hand
Unbarr’d the gates of light.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VI. Line 2.

MORNING.—Parent of day! whose beauteous beams of light, Spring from the darksome womb of night.

Yalden.—Hymn to Morning.