Chapter WORLD to WORLD of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WORLD to WORLD

WORLD.—How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the world forgot!

Pope.—Eloisa to Abelard, Line 207.

O, how full of briers is this working-day world!

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act I. Scene 3. (Rosalind to Celia.)

To know the world, not love her, is thy point;
She gives but little, nor that little long.

Young.—Night VIII. Virtue’s Apology, Line 1276.

I hold the world but as the world, Gratiano;
A stage, where every man must play a part,
And mine a sad one.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 1. (Antonio to Gratiano.)

WORLD.—Such stuff the world is made of.

Cowper.—Hope, Line 211.

The world was all before them, where to choose
Their place of rest, and Providence their guide.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book XII. Line 646.

There is another and a better world.

Kotzebue.—The Stranger, Act I. Scene 1; translated by R. Thompson.

Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 170.

What is the world to them,
Its pomp, its pleasure, and its nonsense all?

Thomson.—Spring, Line 1134.

For still the world prevail’d, and its dread laugh,
Which scarce the firm philosopher can scorn.

Thomson.—Autumn, Line 233.

O who would trust this world, or prize what’s in it,
That gives and takes, and chops and changes, ev’ry minute?

Quarles.—Book I. No. IX. Stanza 5.

I am sick of this bad world!
The daylight and the sun grow painful to me.

Addison.—Cato, Act IV.

’Tis a busy, talking world,
That, with licentious breath, blows like the wind
As freely on the palace as the cottage.

Rowe.—The Fair Penitent, Act III. Scene 1.

O, what a world is this, when what is comely
Envenoms him that bears it!

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 3. (Adam to Orlando.)