Chapter TRENCHER to TROY of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Old Saying.

Dispos’d apart, Ulysses shares the treat!
A trivet-table, and ignobler seat.

Pope’s Odyssey.—Book XX. Line 322.

A three-legg’d table, O ye Fates!

Francis’ Horace.—Book I. Sat. III. Line 18.

Doubt not her care should be
To comb your noddle with a three-legg’d stool,
And paint your face, and use you like a fool.

Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act I. Scene 1. (Katherine to Hortensio.)

When on my three-foot stool I sit.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act III. Scene 3. (Belarius solus.)

TROWEL.—Well said; that was laid on with a trowel.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act I. Scene 2. (Celia to Touchstone.)

TROY.—Corn grows where Troy stood. Jam seges est ubi Troja fuit.

Delectus

A field where Troy stood.
Campos ubi Troja fuit.

Virgil.—Book III. Line 11. Eneid.

TROY.—The model where old Troy did stand.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 1. (The Queen to Richard.)

I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb,
And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt of Rome.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto 3.

Troy, for ten long years, her foes withstood,
And daily bleeding bore th’ expense of blood:
Now for thick streets it shows an empty space,
Or, only fill’d with tombs of her own perished race,
Herself become the sepulchre of what she was.

Dryden.—Pythagorean Phil. Ovid’s Met. Book XV.

Where Athens, Rome, and Sparta stood,
There is a moral desert now.

Shelley.—Queen Mab, Stanza 2.

We plow and reap where former ages row’d.

Roscommon.—Horace’s Art of Poetry.