Chapter WANT to WATCHMEN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WANT to WATCHMEN

WANT.—Age and want sit smiling at the gate.

Pope.—Moral Essays. To Bathurst, Epi. III. Line 266.

Their wants but few, their wishes all confined.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 210.

For every want that stimulates the breast
Becomes a source of pleasure when redrest.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 213.

His wit being snuft by want, burnt clear.

Thomas Killegrew.—The Parson’s Wedding, Act I. Scene 1.

WAR—The Greeks, breathing might, advanced in silence, anxious in mind to aid one another.

Buckley’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book III.

Thus they,
Breathing united force with fixed thought,
Moved on in silence.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 559.

Cease to consult, the time for action calls,
War, horrid war, approaches to your walls!

Pope.—The Iliad, Book II. Line 967.

Now hear the trumpet’s clangour from afar,
And all the dreadful harmony of war.

Tickell.—Oxford.

Let the gull’d fool the toils of war pursue,
Where bleed the many to enrich the few.

Shenstone.—The Judgment of Hercules, Line 158.

The surly drums beat terrible afar,
With all the dreadful music of the war.

Broome.—Seat of War in Flanders.

Grim-visag’d war hath smooth’d his wrinkled front.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 1. (Gloster’s Soliloquy, before he betrays his brother Clarence.)

List his discourse of war, and you shall hear
A fearful battle render’d you in music.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act I. Scene 1. (Archbishop of Canterbury to the Bishop of Eli.)

WAR.—In war and love none should be twice deceived.

Dryden.—Conquest of Granada, Part II. Act II. Scene 1.

If you miscarry you are lost so far,
For there’s no erring twice in love and war.

Pomfret.—Love Triumphant.

The harsh and boist’rous tongue of war.