Chapter POPE to PRAISE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I.Scene 2. (Hermione to Leontes.)

Praising what is lost,
Makes the remembrance dear.

Shakespeare.—All’s Well that Ends Well, Act V. Scene 3; or, as some unknown hand has written, “Though lost to sight, to memory dear.”

Praise cannot praise him with hyperbole:
He is one whom older look upon as on a book,
Wherein are printed noble sentences
For them to rule their lives by.

Wilkins.—Enforced Marriage, Act I.

The man is vain who writes for praise.
Praise no man e’er deserved, who sought no more.

Young.—Night V. Line 3.

Long open panegyric drags at best,
And praise is only praise when well address’d.

Gay.—Epi. I.

Idly do we waste the breath of praise.

Cowper.—The Task, Book VI. Line 711.

I have some wounds upon me, and they smart
To hear themselves remember’d.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act I. Scene 9. (Marcius to Cominius.)

PRAISE.—Praise undeserv’d is satire in disguise.

Broadhurst.—British Beauties. Note from “The Garland,” a Collection of Poems, 1723; See 1 Notes and Queries, 233. Pope, in his translations of Horace, Epi. I. Book II., last line but seven, gives this passage as a quotation, but uses the word “scandal” instead of “satire.”

If thou would’st all his generous deeds explore,
As soon the sandy grains thy tongue shall number o’er.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—Olym. Ode II., Line 174 Olym. Ode XIII. Line 69; Nemean Ode II. Line 31.

For sooner could I reckon o’er
The sands upon the ocean shore.

Psalm CXXXIX. Verse 18. Tate and Brady.

Experience proves the man, and will his worth display.

Wheelwright’s Pindar.—Olym. Ode IV. Line 26; Olym. Ode VI. Line 142.

Praise from a friend, or censure from a foe,
Are lost on hearers that our merits know.

Pope.—Homer’s Iliad, Book X. Line 293.

The love of praise, howe’er conceal’d by art,
Reigns, more or less, and glows, in every heart.

Young.—Satire I. Line 51.

1. Speak you this in my praise, master?
2. In thy condign praise.

Shakespeare.—Love’s Labour’s Lost, Act I. Scene 2. (Moth and Armado.)