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

Nothing is thought rare
Which is not new and follow’d: yet we know
That what was worn some twenty years ago
Comes into grace again.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—Prologue to the Noble Gentleman, Line 4.

Alas! in truth, the man but chang’d his mind,
Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Sir R. Temple. Line 127.

How chang’d, alas, from what it once had been!
’Tis now degraded to a public inn.

Gay.—A True Story.

The hearts
Of all his people shall revolt from him,
And kiss the lips of unacquainted change.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 4. (Pandulph to Lewis.)

CHAOS.—For he being dead, with him is beauty slain,
And beauty dead, black chaos comes again.

Shakespeare.—Venus and Adonis, Stanza 170.

Excellent wretch! perdition catch my soul
But I do love thee! and when I love thee not
Chaos is come again.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Othello’s love for his Wife.)

But, should he hide his face, th’ astonish’d sun,
And all th’ extinguish’d stars, would loosening reel
Wide from their spheres, and chaos come again.

Thomson.—Summer, Line 182.

CHAPEL.—Wherever God erects a house of prayer,
The devil’s sure to have a chapel there.

De Foe.—The True-born Englishman.

CHAPEL.—No sooner is a temple built to God, but the devil builds a chapel hard by.

George Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum; Burton’s Anatomy of Mel. Part III. Section 4.