Chapter TASTE to TEAR of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TASTE to TEAR

TASTE.—It is to me surprising, that out of the multitudes who feel a pleasure in getting an estate, few or none should taste a satisfaction in bestowing it.

Fielding.—An Old Man Taught Wisdom, Act I. Scene 1.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you’ll find
Two of a face, as soon as of a mind.

Pope.—Imitations of Horace, Book II. Epi. II. Line 268.

We taste the fragrance of the rose.

Akenside.—Pleasures of May, Book II. Line 76.

They never taste who always drink;
They always talk who never think.

Prior.—On a passage in the Scaligeriana.

Taste your legs, sir; put them to motion.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 1. (Sir Toby Belch to Viola.)

I have heard of some kind of men that put quarrels purposely on others, to taste their valour.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 4. (Viola to Sir Toby.)

Come, give us a taste of your quality.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Hamlet to the Players.)

TAUGHT.—Here some shrewd critick finds I’m caught,
And cries out “better fed than taught.”

Swift.—Pheasant and Lark.

There taught us how to live; and (oh! too high
The price for knowledge) taught us how to die.

Tickell.—To Earl Warwick on the Death of Addison.

Thou,
Whom soft-eyed Pity once led down from heaven,
To bleed for man, to teach him how to live,
And oh! still harder lesson, how to die!

Dr. Porteus.—Death, a Poem, Line 316. The idea is Tickell’s.

TEA.—Tea! thou soft, thou sober, sage, and venerable liquid; —thou female tongue—running, smile- smoothing, heart-opening, wink-tippling cordial, to whose glorious insipidity I owe the happiest moment of my life, let me fall prostrate.

Colley Cibber.—The Lady’s Last Stake, Act I. Scene 1.

To veniente die, te decendente canebat.

Virgil.—Eclogue VIII. Line 10.

[Translated.—“Thee did he sing as day approached, thee as it departed.” A punster has thus rendered it:—

“At morning he sang the praises of tea,
The praises of tea too at ev’ning sang he.”

Riley’s Dict. Class. Quot. 456.]