Chapter CANVAS to CATO of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Swift.—Vanbrugh’s House.

[And see the same idea in his “Duke of Grafton’s Answer to Dean Smedley’s Petition;” Broome.—Poverty and Poetry; Churchill.—Night, Epi. to Robert Lloyd; Shenstone.—On Taste, Part II.; and Lloyd, Epi. to Colman.]

CAT.—Playing the mouse, in absence of the cat.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act I. Scene 2. (Westmoreland.)

When the cat’s away, the mice will play.

Old Saying.

CATASTROPHE.—So! so! here’s fine work!—here’s fine suicide, parricide, and simulation, going on in the fields! and Sir Anthony not to be found to prevent the antistrophe!

Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act V. Scene 1.

I’ll tickle his catastrophe for this.

Anonymous.—The Merry Devil of Edmonton.

CATCH.—Catch as catch can.

Athenæus.—Lib. V. Page 193; a saying of Antiochus Epiphanes.

For why? Because the good old rule
Sufficeth them; the simple plan,
That they should take who have the power,
And they should keep who can.

Wordsworth.—Rob Roy’s Grave.

CATO.—The dawn is overcast, the morning low’rs,
And heavily in clouds brings on the day:
The great, th’ important day, big with the fate
Of Cato, and of Rome.

Addison.—Cato, Act I. Scene 1.