Chapter TIME to TIRED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Time hath set a blot upon my pride.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act III. Scene 2. (The King to Aumerle.)

Time doth transfix the flourish set on youth,
And delves the parallels in beauty’s brow.

Shakespeare.—Sonnet 60.

I never knew the old gentleman with the scythe and hour-glass bring any thing but grey hair, thin cheeks, and loss of teeth.

Dryden.—The Maiden Queen, Act III. Scene 1.

The chinks that time has made.

Rogers.—Italy. Pœstum.

We take no note of time
But from its loss.

Young.—Night I. Line 55.

Noiseless falls the foot of time
That only treads on flowers.

W. R. Spencer.—Lines to Lady A. Hamilton.

Time is the nurse and breeder of all good.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act III. Scene 1. (Proteus to Valentine.)

No stealth of time has thinn’d my flowing hair.

Hammond.—Elegy IV. Verse 5.

And thus the whirligig of time brings in his revenges.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act V. Scene 1.

There’s a gude time coming.

Scott.—Rob Roy, Chap. XXXII.

TIRED.—Tired, he sleeps, and life’s poor play is o’er.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 282.

Tired limbs and over-busy thoughts,
Inviting sleep and soft forgetfulness.

Wordsworth.—The Excursion, Vol. VI. Page 162.