Chapter SAINT GEORGE to SCARS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SAINT GEORGE to SCARS

SAINT GEORGE.—Saint George shall called be
Saint George of merry England, the sign of victory.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book I. Canto X.

Sits on his horse back, at mine hostess’ door.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act II. Scene 1.

SALLY.—Of all the girls that are so smart,
There’s none like pretty Sally;
She is the darling of my heart,
And she lives in our alley.

Carey.—Sally in our Alley, a Song.

SALT.—Alas! you know the cause too well;
The salt is spilt, to me it fell.

Gay.—Fable XXXVII. Line 5.

SATAN.—Satan now is wiser than of yore,
And tempts by making rich, not making poor.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. To Bathurst, Line 351.

Satan exalted sat, by merit rais’d
To that bad eminence.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book II. Line 5.

SAUL AND JONATHAN.—Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not divided. 2 Samuel, Chap. I. Verse 23.

Happier for me, that all our hours assign’d
Together we had liv’d; e’en not in death disjoin’d!

Dryden.—Ceyx and Alcyone.

That death itself could not their friendship sever,
But, as they liv’d in love, they died together.

Cowley.—The Song, Stanza 9.

Spenser.—Astrophel, Line 179.

Not doom’d in lingering woe to waste their breath,
One moment snatch’d them from the power of death:
They lived united and united died;
Happy the friends whom death cannot divide.

Beattie.—Epitaph on Two Young Men.

’Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,
And in their death had not divided been.

Campbell.—Gertrude of Wyoming, Part III. Verse 33.

SAVED.—I know not what may become of a sincere Turk; but, if this be your persuasion, I pronounce it impossible you should be saved. No, sir; so far from a sincere Turk’s being within the pale of salvation, neither will any sincere Presbyterian, Anabaptist, nor Quaker whatever, be saved.

Fielding.—Life of Jonathan Wild, Book IV. Chap. I.

SAW.—I saw those that saw the Queen.

Swift.—On himself.