Chapter DARES to DAYS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.

St. Matthew.—Chap. VI. Verse 34.

Sweet day, so cool, so calm, so bright,
The bridal of the earth and sky,
The dew shall weep thy fall to- night;
For thou must die.

George Herbert.—The Temple; Virtue.

At the close of the day, when the hamlet is still,
And mortals the sweets of forgetfulness prove,
When nought but the torrent is heard on the hill,
And nought but the nightingale’s heard in the grove.

Beattie.—The Hermit, Line 1.

The bright procession of a day.

Broome.—Lady and her Looking-glass.

O life, frail offspring of a day!
’Tis puff’d with one short gasp away!
Swift as the short-liv’d flower it flies,
It springs, it blooms, it fades, it dies.

Broome.—Melancholy.

Such and so varied, the precarious play
Of fate with man, frail tenant of a day!

Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XXV.

Day is driven on by day, and the new moons hasten to their wane.

Smart’s Horace.—Book II. Ode XVIII.

DAYS.—Though fallen on evil days,
On evil days though fallen, and evil tongues.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Line 25, Book VII.

We are fall’n on dark and evil days!

Mrs. Hemans.—Siege of Valencia, Scene I., Page 264; and see Rogers’ Italy, the Campagna of Florence, Page 116, Edition 1830.

DAYS.—Enlarge my life with multitude of days,
In health, in sickness, thus the suppliant prays;
Hides from himself his state, and shuns to know
That life protracted is protracted woe.

Dr. Johnson.—Vanity of Human Wishes, Line 255.