Chapter QUEM DEUS VULT PERDERE to RAINBOW of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

RAIL.—Let not the heavens hear these tell-tale women
Rail on the Lord’s anointed.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act IV. Scene 4. (Richard calls for trumpets and drums to drown the upbraidings of his Mother and Queen Elizabeth.)

RAIN.—He shall come down like the rain into a fleece of wool: even as the drops that water the earth.

Psalms LXII. Verse 6.

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.

St. Matthew.—Chap. V. Verse 45.

RAINBOW.—Look upon the rainbow, and praise Him that
made it; very beautiful it is in the brightness thereof; it
compasseth the heaven about with a glorious circle, and the
hands of the Most High have bended it.

Ecclesiasticus.—Chap. XLIII. Verses 11, 12.

So shines the setting sun on adverse skies,
And paints a rainbow on the storm.

Dr. Watts.—Lyric Poems, The Disappointment and Relief.

That gracious thing made up of tears and light.

Coleridge.—The Two Founts, Verse 5.

What skilful limner e’er would choose
To paint the rainbow’s various hues,
Unless to mortal it were given
To dip his brush in dyes of heaven.

Scott—Marmion, Verse 5.

RAINBOW.—Thou, my Zuleika, share and bless my bark;
The dove of peace and promise to mine ark!
Or, since that hope denied in worlds of strife,
Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life!
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!

Byron.—The Bride of Abydos, Canto II. Stanza 20.