Chapter POETICAL to POOR of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

POETICAL to POOR

POETICAL.—I would the gods had made thee poetical.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act III. Scene 3. (Touchstone to Audrey.)

The emulative flame,
That rose o’er Dante’s song, and rivall’d Maro’s fame.

Seward.—Lines on Milton sleeping.

POETRY.—There is in poesy a decent pride,
Which well becomes her when she speaks to prose,
Her youngest sister.

Young.—Night V. Line 64.

POINTS.—This fellow doth not stand upon points.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus to Lysander.)

POMP.—Vain pomp and glory of this world, I hate ye;
I feel my heart new open’d : O, how wretched
Is that poor man that hangs on princes’ favours !
There is, betwixt that smile we would aspire to,
That sweet aspéct of princes, and their ruin,
More pangs and fears than wars or women have;
And when he falls, he falls like Lucifer,
Never to hope again.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey on the Vicissitudes of Life)

Take physic, pomp;
Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Reflections in the Tempest.)

Plain without pomp, and rich without a show.

Dryden.—The Flower and the Leaf, Line 187.

POOR.—Poor and content, is rich, and rich enough;
But riches, fineless, is as poor as winter,
To him that ever fears he shall be poor.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to Othello, hinting at jealousy.)

To be poor, and to seem poor, is a certain method never to rise.

Goldsmith.—On Concealing our Wants.

Poor naked wretches, wheresoe’er you are,
That bide the pelting of this pitiless storm !

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (His exclamation in the Tempest.)

POOR.—Poor in abundance, furnish’d at a feast.

Young.—Night VII. Part II. Line 44.