Chapter PRAY to PRAYER-BOOK of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PRAY to PRAYER-BOOK

PRAY.—Good wholesome thoughts may nourish thee;
Go home and pray.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Mad Lover, Act II. Scene 3.

PRAYER.—That work which is begun well is half done,
And without prayer no work is well begun.

Fanshawe.

PRAYER.—Hast thou not learn’d what thou are often told,
A truth still sacred, and believed of old,
That no success attends on spears and swords
Unblest, and that the battle is the Lord’s?

Cowper.—Expostulation, Line 350; and see his “Table Talk,” Line 373.

Holy beginning of a holy cause,
When heroes, girt for Freedom’s combat, pause
Before high Heav’n, and, humble in their might,
Call down its blessing on that coming fight.

Tom Moore.—Rhymes on the Road, Vol. VII. Page 326.

More things are wrought by prayer
Than the world dreams of.

Tennyson.—Morte d’ Arthur.

Prayer is the voice of faith.

Horne.—On the 143rd Psalm, Verse 6.

Who their ill-tasted home-brewed prayer
To the State’s mellow forms prefer.

Green.—The Spleen, Line 336.

Sum up at night what thou hast done by day,
And in the morning, what thou hast to do.
Dress and undress thy soul: mark the decay
And growth of it: if with thy watch, that too
Be down, then wind up both; since we shall be
Most surely judged, make thy accounts agree.

George Herbert.—The Temple, Stanza 76.

Behold, he prayeth.

The Acts.—Chap. IX. Verse 11.

PRAYER-BOOK.—Get a prayer-book in your hand,
And stand between two churchmen.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act III. Scene 7. (Buckingham to Richard.)

1. See, where his grace stands ’tween two clergymen!
2. And, see, a book of prayer in his hand;
True ornaments to know a holy man.

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (The Mayor and Bucking-ham.)