Chapter CAVIARE to CHAPEL of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

CAVIARE to CHAPEL

CAVIARE.—’Twas caviare to the general.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (The Prince to the Players.)

CENSORIOUS.—Be not too rigidly censorious,
A string may jar in the best master’s hand,
And the most skilful archer miss his aim;—
I would not quarrel with a slight mistake.

Roscommon.—Art of Poetry.

CENSURE.—But we contemn the fury of these days,
And revere no less their censure than their praise.

Cowley.—Prologue to the Guardian.

Numbers err in this;
Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss.

Pope.—On Criticism, Line 5.

Censure is the tax a many pays to the public for being eminent.

Anon.—Spectator, No. CI.

CHAMBER.—Sitting in my dolphin-chamber, at the round table, by a sea-cole fire.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. Scene I. (Hostess to Falstaff.)

CHANCE.—A lucky chance, that oft decides the fate
Of mighty monarchs.

Thomson.—Summer.

CHANGE.—Whate’er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbour with himself.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 261.

Where yet was ever found a mother
Who’d give her booby for another?

Gay.—Fable III. Line 33.

A change came o’er the spirit of my dream.

Byron.—The Dream, Line 75.

Fear of change
Perplexes monarchs.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I.

No:—Let the eagle change his plume,
The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom;
But ties around his heart were spun,
That could not, would not, be undone!

Campbell.—O’Connor’s Child.

CHANGE.—Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots?

Jeremiah. Chap. XIII. Verse 23.

The French and we still change, but here’s the curse,
They change for better, and we change for worse.

Dryden.—Prologue to the Spanish Friar.