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NONSENSE to NOTHING

NONSENSE.—A little nonsense now and then
Is relish’d by the best of men.

Anonymous.

Nonsense and noise will oft prevail,
When honour and affection fail.

Lloyd.—Letter on Rhymes, near the end.

NOON.—O lovely babe! what lustre shall adorn
Thy noon of beauty, when so bright thy morn!

Broome.—Birth-day of Trefusis.

But ’ere the noon of day, in fiery gleams,
He darts the glory of his blazing beams.

Broome.—Chap. XLIII. of Ecclesiasticus.

When to the noon of life we rise,
The man grows elegant in vice.

Broome.—Melancholy.

Borrow Cynthia’s silver white,
When she shines at noon of night,
Free from clouds to veil her light.

Hughes.—The Picture.

He chas’d the hornet in his mid-day flight,
And brought her glow-worms in the noon of night.

Tickell.—Kensington Garden.

About the noon of night.

Ben Jonson.—Sejanus, Act V. Scene 6.

NOR.—Nor wife, nor children, more shall he behold;
Nor friends, nor sacred home.

Thomson.—Winter.

NORTH.—Ask where’s the north? at York, ’tis on the Tweed;
In Scotland, at the Orcades; and there
At Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 222.

NOT.—Not unto us, O Lord! not unto us, but unto thy name, give glory.

Psalm CXV. Verse 1; “Give the praise,” Prayer-Book Version.

NOT.— O God! thy arm was here,
And not unto us, but to thy arm alone,
Ascribe we all.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act IV. Scene 8. (After the Battle.)

NOTE.—I’ll note you in my book of memory.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (Plantagenet to Somerset.)

When found, make a note of.

Dickens.—Captain Cuttle, in “David Copperfield.”

Note this before my notes.
There’s not a note of mine that’s worth the noting.