Chapter NEVER to NEWTON, SIR ISAAC of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

NEWS.—The first bringer of unwelcome news
Hath but a losing office.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act I. Scene 1.

Evil news rides post, while good news bates.

Milton.—Samson Agonistes.

Here comes Monsieur Le Beau; with his mouth full of news.

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

News, the manna of a day.

Green.—The Spleen, Line 169.

NEWSMAN.—He comes, the herald of a noisy world,
With spatter’d boots, strapp’d waist, and frozen locks;
News from all nations lumbering at his back.

Cowper.—The Task, Book IV. Line 5.

He whistles as he goes, light-hearted wretch,
Cold and yet cheerful: messenger of grief
Perhaps to thousands, and of joy to some.

Ibid.—The Task, Book IV. Line 12.

NEWTON, SIR ISAAC.—Nature and nature’s laws lay hid in night,
God said, Let Newton be! and all was light.

Pope.—Epitaph for Sir Isaac.

Have ye not listen’d while he bound the suns
And planets to their spheres? th’ unequal task
Of human- kind till then.

Thomson.—To the Memory of Sir Isaac.

Nature herself
Stood all subdued by him, and open laid
Her every latent glory to his view.

Ibid.

He also fix’d our wand’ring queen of night,
Whether she wanes into a scanty orb,
Or, waxing broad, with her pale shadowy light
In a soft deluge overflows the sky.

Ibid.