Index — Chapter RAKE <i>to</i> REASONS (Part 1 of 2)

RAKE.—Men, some to business, some to pleasure take;
But every woman is at heart a rake:
Men, some to quiet, some to public strife;
But every lady would be queen for life.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. Line 215.

RANK.—The rank is but the guinea stamp,
The man’s the gowd for a’ that.

Burns.—Honest Poverty.

RAPTURE.—An infant when it gazes on the light,
A child the moment when it drains the breast,
A devotee when soars the Host in sight,
An Arab with a stranger for a guest,
A sailor when the prize has struck in fight,
A miser filling his most hoarded chest,
Feel rapture; but not such true joy are reaping
As they who watch o’er what they love while sleeping.

Byron.—Don Juan, Canto III. Stanza 196.

Not the poet in the moment
Fancy lightens on his e’e,
Kens the pleasure, feels the rapture,
That thy presence gi’es to me.

Burns.—Fair Eliza, Verse 3.

RAT.—Quoth Hudibras, I smell a rat,
Ralpho, thou dost prevaricate.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part I. Canto I. Line 821.

READ.—1. I’ll walk a turn, and digest what I have read.
2. You’ll grow devilish fat upon this paper diet.

Congreve.—Love for Love, Act I. Scene 1.

Read, read, sirrah, and refine your appetite; learn to live upon instruction; feast your mind, and mortify your flesh: Read, and take your nourishment in at your eyes, shut up your mouth, and chew the cud of understanding.

Congreve.—Love for Love, Act I. Scene 1.

READ.—Shall a rascal, because he has read books, talk pertly
to me?

Colley Cibber.—The Double Gallant, Act I. Scene 1.

READING.—Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Bacon.—Essays. On Studies.

REASON.—If there were reason for these miseries,
Then into limits could I bind my woes:—
Wilt thou have a reason for this coil?

Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act III. Scene 1. (On the Mutilation of his daughter Lavinia by Demetrius and Chiron.)

While reason drew the plan, the heart inform’d
The moral page, and fancy lent it grace.

Thomson.—Liberty, Part IV.

I have no other but a woman’s reason;
I think him so, because I think him so.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 2. (Lucetta to Julia.)