Chapter SPIRE to SPOON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SPIRE to SPOON

SPIRE.—Yon towers, whose wanton tops do buss the clouds.

Shakespeare.—Troilus and Cressida, Act IV. Scene 5.

Cloud-kissing turrets—spires that seem to kiss the clouds.

Heywood.—Four London Apprentices.

Under a star-ypointing pyramid.

Milton.—Epitaph on Shakespeare.

These pointed spires, that wound the ambient sky.

Prior.—Solomon, a poem, Book III. Line 770.

The village church, among the trees,
Where first our marriage-vows were given,
With merry peals shall swell the breeze,
And point with taper spire to heaven.

Rogers.—A Wish, a poem. Verse 4.

An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat countries with spire-steeples; which, as they cannot be referred to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and stars.

S. T. Coleridge.—The Friend, No. 14, Page 223.

Ye swelling hills and spacious plains!
Besprent from shore to shore with steeple-tow’rs,
And “spires whose silent finger points to heav’n.”

Wordsworth.—The Excursion, Verse 17

Pyramid pointing to the stars.

Ibid.—Vol. V. Page 80, Line 14.

Nought but the heaven-directed spire.

Ibid.—Vol. V. Page 84, Line 8.

How the tall temples, as to meet their gods,
Ascend the skies!

Young.—Night VI. Line 781.

Who taught that heaven-directed spire to rise?

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. to Bathurst; Line 261.

Rushing from the woods, the spires
Seem from hence ascending fires!

Dyer.—Grongar Hill, Line 51.

Magnific walls, and heaven-assaulting spires.

Smart.—Power of the Supreme Being.

SPIRE.—Where’er a spire points up to heaven,
Through storm and summer air,
Telling that all around have striven,
Man’s heart, and hope, and prayer.