Chapter PARTHIANS to PAST of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Sir John Suckling.—A Letter to his dear Princess.

PASSION.—One master passion in the breast,
Like Aaron’s serpent, swallows up the rest.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 131.

PASSIVE OBEDIENCE.—Passive obedience was a jest;
And pshaw! was non-resistance.

Scott.—Waverley, Chap. II. Old Song.

PAST.—None would live past years again;
Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain.

Dryden.—Aurengzebe, Act IV. Scene 1.

Past corporal toil.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act I. Scene 1.

PAST.—If o’er their lives a refluent glance they cast,
Theirs is the present who can praise the past;
Life has its bliss for these when past its bloom,
As wither’d roses yield a late perfume.

Shenstone.—The Judgment of Hercules, Line 424.