Chapter TEARS to TEARS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TEARS to TEARS

TEARS.—Tears such as tender fathers shed
Warm from my aged eyes descend,
For joy, to think, when I am dead.
My son will have mankind his friend.

Handel.—Song.

Lorenzo! hast thou ever weigh’d a sigh?
Or studied the philosophy of tears?—
Hast thou descended deep into the breast,
And seen their source? If not, descend with me,
And trace these briny rivulets to their springs.

Young.—Night V. Line 516.

[Note.—The reader should descend the stream with Dr.Young, and he will be gratified by the perusal of the several gradations of tears.]

Her briny tears did on paper fall.

Cowley.—To the Reader, Verse 2.

Here tears and sighs speak his imperfect moan,
In language far more moving than his own.

Cowley.—Constantia and Philetus, Verse 17.

TEARS.—The tide is now: nay, not thy tide of tears,
That tide will stay me longer than I should.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 2. (Proteus to Julia.)

Let not women’s weapons, water-drops,
Stain my man’s cheeks.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (Lear to Regan.)

There she shook
The holy water from her heavenly eyes,
And clamour moisten’d.

Shakespeare.—king Lear, Act IV. Scene 3. (A Gentleman to Kent.)

And all my mother came into mine eyes,
And gave me up to tears.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V.Act IV. Scene 6. (Exeter to king Henry.)

Beauty’s tears are lovelier than her smile.

Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part I.

And now and then a sigh he stole;
And tears began to flow.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast, Verse 4; Gold-smith—the Hermit, Verse 15.

The tear forgot as soon as shed,
The sunshine of the breast.

Gray.—Eton College, Stanza 5.

Venus smiles not in a house of tears.

Shakespeare.—Rome and Juliet, Act IV. Scene 1. (Paris to the Friar.)

My eyes are dim with childish tears.

Wordsworth.—The Fountain, Vol. V. Page 34.