Chapter RIALTO to RIVETS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

RIALTO to RIVETS

RIALTO.—Many a time and oft
In the Rialto you have rated me.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 3. (Shylock to Antonio.)

What news on the Rialto?

Shakespeare.—Ibid. (Shylock to Bassanio.)

RICHARD.—Hence, babbling dreams; you threaten here in vain;

Conscience avaunt, Richard’s himself again!

Colley Cibber.—The Tragical History of King Richard III. Alter’d from Shakespeare, Act V. Scene 1.

And Constance is herself again.

Campbell.—Theodric.

How much our golden wishes are in vain!
When they are past, we are ourselves again.

Dryden.—The Maiden Queen, Act III. Scene 1.

RIDE A COCK-HORSE.—The playful jockey scours the room,
Briskly, astride upon the parlour broom.

Cowper.—Tirocinium, Line 366.

Bring me the bells, the rattle bring,
And bring the hobby I bestrode,
When pleased, in many a sportive ring,
Around the room I jovial rode.

Shenstone.—Ode to Memory, Verse 8.

We set them a cock-horse and made them play.

Bridal Song.—Appendix to General Preface to Scott’s Novels, Chap. V. end of No. 2; and see Burton’s Anat. of Melanc. 271. ed. 1849. citing Valerius Maximus, Chap. VIII. Book 8.

Unthought-of frailties cheat us in the wise.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi.I. To Temple, Line 69.

[Dr. Samuel Clarke (ob. 1729) frequently amused himself in a private room of his house, in leaping over the tables and chairs,—Dr. Warton on the line in Pope, supra.

To be capable of deriving amusement from trivial circumstances, indicates a heart at ease, and may generally be regarded as the concomitant of virtue.—Encycl. Brit., Title “Clarke.”]

RIGHT.—His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might
Be wrong; his life, I’m sure, was in the right.

Cowley.—Death of Mr. Crashaw.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;
His can’t be wrong, whose life is in the right.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 305.

I see the right, and I approve it too;
Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Tate.—Ovid Met. Book VII. Verse 20.

Whatever is, is right.