Chapter UNCONCERNED to UNKINDNESS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

UNCONCERNED to UNKINDNESS

UNCONCERNED.—Beside my mistress I would sit,
As unconcern’d as when
Her infant beauty could beget,
Nor happiness nor pain.

Scott.—Preface to the Surgeon’s Daughter.

UNDER.—Under which king, Bezonian? Speak or die.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act V. Scene 3. (Pistol to Shallow.)

Here, waiter, more wine; let me sit while I’m able,
Till all my companions sink under the table.

Goldsmith.—Retaliation, Line 19.

Captain of Knockdunder, madam, if you please, for I knock under to no man; and in respect of my garb, I shall go to church as I am, at your service, madam.

Sir W. Scott.—Heart of Midlothian. (Captain of Knockdunder in reply to Mrs. Dolly Dutton.)

UNDERNEATH.—Underneath this sable hearse
Lies the subject of all verse;
Sidney’s sister! Pembroke’s mother:
Death! ere thou hast slain another,
Learned, and fair, and good as she,
Time shall throw a dart at thee.

Wm. Browne.—Lansdowne MSS. Brit. Museum; but Whalley says these lines are universally assigned to Ben Jonson; and Mr. Wm. Gifford says they are by the Earl Pembroke, without doubt.

UNDERSTAND.—1. And do you understand’em, brother?
2. I tell thee, no; that’s not material; the sound’s
Sufficient to confirm an honest man.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Elder Brother, Act II. Scene 1.

UNDONE.—No: let the eagle change his plume,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom;
But ties around this heart were spun,
That could not, would not, be undone!

Campbell.—O’Connor’s Child, Stanza 7.

UNEASY.—Uneasy lies the head that wears a crown.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act III. Scene 1. (The King’s soliloquy on sleep.)

UNIVERSITY.—Every man is not bred at a varsity.

Fielding.—Don Quixotte in England, Act III. Scene 6.

UNKENNEL THE FOX.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 3. (Ford to his Wife and Friends.)

UNKINDNESS.—Hard unkindness’ alter’d eye,
That mocks the tear it forced to flow.

Gray.—Eton College, Verse 8.

Sharp-tooth’d unkindness.

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

Unkindness may do much,
And his unkindness may defeat my life,
But never taint my love.