Chapter AFFRONT to AGE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Dear daughter, I confess that I am old;
Age is unnecessary: on my knees I beg
That you’ll vouchsafe me raiment, bed, and food.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (The King to his daughter Regan.)

You see me here,—a poor old man,
As full of grief as age; wretched in both!

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (The same.)

He is older than Saturn.

Le Sage.—Gil Blas, Vol. I. Book III. Chap. 11.

An age that melts with unperceived decay,
And glides in modest innocence away;
Whose peaceful Day benevolence endears,
Whose Night congratulating conscience cheers;
The general favourite as the general friend:
Such age there is, and who shall wish its end?

Dr. Johnson. — Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 293.

O, sir! I must not tell my age.
They say women and music should never be dated.

Goldsmith.—She Stoops to Conquer, Act III.

My age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty but kindly.

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

Just at the age ’twixt boy and youth,
When thought is speech, and speech is truth.

Scott.—Marmion, Introduction to 2nd Canto.

AGE.—Tell me what you find better, or more honourable than age. Is not wisdom entail’d upon it? Take the pre-eminence of it in everything; in an old friend, in old wine, in an old pedigree.

Shakerly Marmion.—The Antiquary, Act II. Scene 1.

We see time’s furrows on another’s brow,
How few themselves, in that just mirror, see!

Young.—Night V. Lines 627, 629.

Press’d with the weight of more than fourscore years.

Lillo.—The Christian Hero, Act II.

To the old, long life and treasure;
To the young, all health and pleasure.

Ben Jonson.—A Song in the Gipsies Metamorphosed.

When the age is in, the wit is out.

Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Scene 5. (Dogberry.)

Crabbed age and youth, cannot live together.

Shakespeare.—The Passionate Pilgrim, Stanza 10.