Chapter PEARL to PEOPLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PEARL to PEOPLE

PEARL.—A pearl may in a toad’s head dwell.
And may be found too in an oyster shell.

Bunyan.—Apology for his Book.

PEARLS.—Like orient pearls at random strung.

Sir William Jones.—Song of Hafiz, Verse 9.

Strung together like a row of pearls.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 330.

PEERS.—Brave peers of England, pillars of the state.

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

PEGASUS.—Never gallop Pegasus to death.

Pope.—To Bolingbroke, Book I. Epi. I. Line 14.

PEN.—1. A pen that can write, I hope?
2. It can write and spell baith, in right hands.

Scott.—Redgauntlet, Chap. XII.

With one good pen I wrote this book,
Made of a grey goose quill;
A pen it was when it I took, And a pen I leave it still.

Gill.

[This man wrote a Biblical Commentary, which Sir Walter Scott thinks occupies between five and six hundred printed quarto pages, and has this quatrain at the end of the volume. See note D to the Fortunes of Nigel.]

PEN.—Oh! Nature’s noblest gift—my grey goose quill:
Slave of my thoughts, obedient to my will,
Torn from thy parent bird to form a pen,
That mighty instrument of little men!

Byron.—English Bards, Line 6.

I’ll make thee famous by my pen,
And glorious by my sword.

Montrose.—A Song, My Dear and Only Love.

PENCIL.—Of whom it may be justly said,
He’s a gold pencil tipp’d with lead.

Swift.—A Lady’s Ivory Table-Book.

PENMANSHIP.—A damn’d cramp piece of penmanship as
ever I saw in my life.

Goldsmith.—She Stoops to Conquer, Act IV.

Pray, madam, read it: This written hand is such a damn’d
pedantic thing, I could never away with it.

Dryden.—The Wild Gallant, Act III. Scene 1.

PENURY.—Chill penury repress’d their noble rage,
And froze the genial current of the soul.

Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 13.