Index — Chapter THINGS <i>to</i> THOUGHT (Part 2 of 2)

Pope—Essay on Criticism, Line 298; Sterne—Address to Sermon V.; Gilfillan—Life of Gray, Page 158.

Her pure and eloquent blood
Spoke in her cheeks, and so distinctly wrought,
That one would almost say her body thought.

Dr. Donne.—On his Mistress.

To dazzle let the vain design,
To raise the thought, and touch the heart, be thine!

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. II. Line 249.

Our thoughts are heard in heaven!

Young.—Night II. Line 95.

Give thy thoughts no tongue,
Nor any unproportion’d thought his act.
Be thou familiar, but by no means vulgar.
The friends thou hast, and their adoption tried,
Grapple them to thy soul with hoops of steel:
But do not dull thy palm with entertainment
Of each new-hatch’d, unfledg’d comrade.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 3. (Polonius to Laertes.)

He thought on the days that were long since by,
When his limbs were strong, and his courage high.

Scott.—Last Minstrel, Canto II. Stanza 7.

THOUGHT.—Scatters from her pictur’d urn
Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn.

Gray.—Progress of Poesy.

And thoughts that meet.

Ben Jonson.—The Fortunate Isles.

Still are the thoughts to memory dear.

Scott.—Rokeby, Canto I. Verse 33.

From this time forth,

My thoughts be bloody, or be nothing worth!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 4. (Hamlet alone, after his interview with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.)

Thanks to the human heart by which we live,
Thanks to its tenderness, its joys, and fears;
To me the meanest flower that blows can give
Thoughts that do often lie too deep for tears.

Wordsworth.—Ode, Vol. V. Page 345, last four Lines.

Too mad for thought, too pretty to be wise.

Crawthorne.—To Miss—.