Chapter NICE to NOBLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

NICE to NOBLE

NICE.—Dismiss poor Harry! he replies;
Some people are more nice than wise.

Cowper.—Mutual Forbearance.

NIGHT.—The bright light of the sun fell into the ocean, drawing dark night over the fruitful earth.

Buckley’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book VIII. Page CXLVIII.; Riley’s Ovid.—The Metamorphoses, Book XV. Page 518.

Night, sable goddess! from her ebon throne,
In rayless majesty, now stretches forth
Her leaden sceptre o’er a slumbering world.

Young.—Night I. Line 18; Night IX. Line 551; Night IX. Line 563.

Night, whose sable hand
Hangs on the purple skirts of flying day.

Dyer.—The Fleece, Book II.

When night bids sleep,
Sweet nurse of nature, o’er the senses creep.

Churchill.—Gotham, Book III.

There’s husbandry in heaven;
Their candles are all out.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 1.

What hath night to do with sleep?

Milton.—Comus, Line 122.

Most glorious night! Thou wert not sent for slumber!

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 93.

Now began
Night with her sullen wings to double-shade
The desert; fowls in their clay nests were couch’d,
And now wild beasts came forth, the woods to roam.

Milton.—Par. Reg. Book I. Last Line but four.

Making night hideous.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 4; Pope.—The Dunciad, Book III. Line 166.

The night is long that never finds the day.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 3.

Was I deceived, or did a sable cloud
Turn forth her silver lining on the night?

Milton.—Comus, Line 221.

NIGHT.—When the sun sets who doth not look for-night?

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

Earth, turning from the sun, brings night to man;
Man, turning from his God, brings endless night.

Young.—Night IX. Line 2011.