Chapter TRUTH to UNCLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TRUTH to UNCLE

TRUTH.—Truths divine came mended from that tongue.

Pope.—Eloisa to Abelard, Line 66.

Truth is unwelcome, however divine.

Cowper.—The Flatting Mill, Verse 6.

The dignity of truth is lost
With much protesting.

Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act III. Scene 2.

Truth is sunk in the deep.

Yonge’s Cicero.—Academical Quot. Page 20, quoting Democritus.

Truth to her old cavern fled.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 641.

The sages say, dame Truth delights to dwell,
Strange mansion! in the bottom of a well.

Dr. Walcott.—Birth-day Ode.

TUB.—Every tub must stand upon its own bottom.

Bunyan.—Pilgrim’s Progress, Part 1.

TURN.—Ay; you did wish that I would make her turn:
Sir, she can turn, and turn, and yet go on,
And turn again.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 1. (The Moor to Lodovico.)

They never would hear,
But turn a deaf ear,
As a matter they had no concern in.

Swift.—Dingley and Brent.

Turn gentle hermit of the dale,
And guide my lonely way,
To where you taper cheers the vale
With hospitable ray.

Goldsmith.—The Hermit.

Be sure to turn the penny.

Dryden’s Persius.—Sat. V.

TURNSPIT.—But as a dog that turns the spit
Bestirs himself, and plies his feet
To climb the wheel, but all in vain,
His own weight brings him down again,
And still he’s in the self-same place
Where at his setting out he was.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto III. Line 209.

TWEEDLE-DUM.—Strange! all this difference should be
’Twixt Tweedle-dum and Tweedle-dee!

Pope.—Epigram on Handel and Bononcini.

TWELVE.—The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve:—
Lovers to bed; ’tis almost fairy time