Chapter SUNSET to SYRENS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SUNSET to SYRENS

SUNSET.—The weary sun hath made a golden set,
And, by the bright track of his fiery car,
Gives token of a goodly day to-morrow.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (Richmond to Brandon and others.)

SUPERFICIAL.—She should have a supercilious knowledge in accounts.

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act I. Scene 2.

SUPPER.—Being full of supper and distempering draughts.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 1. (Brabantio upbraiding Roderigo for following his Daughter.)

SURREY.—Saddle white Surrey for the field to-morrow.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act V. Scene 3. (Richard to Catesby.)

SUSPICION.—Suspicion always haunts the guilty mind;
The thief doth fear each bush an officer.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act V. Scene 6. (Gloster to King Henry.)

Or, in the night, imagining some fear,
How easy is a bush suppos’d a bear.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus to Hippolyta.)

SWAIN.—The swain responsive as the milkmaid sung,
The sober herd that low’d to meet their young.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 117.

SWAN.—The dying swan is said to utter a pleasing song, and the poets have for ages attested its truth. We will give a few specimens.

Foreseeing how happy it is to die, they leave this world with singing and joy.

Yonge’s Cicero.—Tusculan Disputations, Book I. Div. 30.

Lamenting, in a low voice, her very woes, as when the swan, now about to die, sings his own funeral dirge.

Riley’s Ovid.—Metamorphoses, Picus and Canens, Page 499.

SWAN.—Thus does the white swan, as he lies on the wet grass, when the fates summon him, sing at the fords of Mæander.

Riley’s Ovid.—Epistle 7, Page 63; and see Spenser, in the “Ruins of Time;” Shakespeare, in the Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 2—King John Act V. Scene 7—Othello, Act V. Scene 2; Cowley, in his Pyramus and Thisbe; Garth, in the Dispensary; Pope, in Windsor Forest—Rape of the Lock—Winter, a Pastoral; Prior’s Turtle and Sparrow; Fenton’s Florelio; Lansdowne, in the Muses’ Dying Song; and Shelley, in “the Alastor.”

SWEAR.—Maintain your rank, vulgarity despise,
To swear is neither brave, polite, nor wise;
You would not swear upon a bed of death—
Reflect—your Maker now may stop your breath.

Anonymous.—From Adams’s Quotations.

When truth’s conspicuous we need not swear.

Pomfret.—Epi. To Delia.