Chapter PLAYERS to POET of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PLAYERS to POET

PLAYERS.—O, there be players that I have seen play, and heard others praise, and that highly, not to speak it profanely, that neither having the accent of christians, nor the gait of christians, pagan, nor man, have so strutted and bellowed, that I have thought some of Nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To the Players.)

PLEASE.—At once to please, and to confound the sight.

Cowley.—The Davideis, Book III. Line 192.

We that live to please, must please to live.

Dr. Johnson.—Prologue 1747, Line 54.

They who are pleased themselves must always please.

Thomson.—The Castle of Indolence, Canto I. Stanza 15.

Behold the child, by nature’s kindly law,
Pleas’d with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle II. Line 275.

PLEASURE.—’Tis all my pleasure thy past toil to know,
For pleas’d remembrance builds delight on woe.

Gay.—Epi. VIII.

Sweet is pleasure after pain.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 3.

May you be all as old as I,
And see your sons to manhood grow;
And, many a time before you die,
Be just as pleas’d as I am now.

Bloomfield.—Richard and Kate.

Pleasures are ever in our hands or eyes;
And when, in act, they cease, in prospect rise.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 123.

PLEASURE.—If Heaven a draught of heavenly pleasure spare,
One cordial in this melancholy vale,
’Tis when a youthful, loving, modest pair,
In other’s arms breathe out the tender tale,
Beneath the milk-white thorn that scents the evening gale !

Burns.—Cotter’s Saturday Night, Verse 9.

There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,
There is a rapture on the lonely shore,
There is society, where none intrudes,
By the deep sea, and music in its roar.

Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto IV. Stanza 178.

PLENTY.—Scatter plenty o’er a smiling land.

Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 16.

So plenty makes me poor.