Chapter DIVINITY to DOOM of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

his poem on the plagues of Egypt. Line 45; and the late Mr. Serjeant Cockle, whose powers of persuasion were so great, obtained the appellation of “the almighty of the North.”—Law and Lawyers, 204.]

DONE.—All may do, what has by man been done.

Young.—Night VI. Line 606.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

Longfellow.—A Psalm of Life.

Hast thou begun an act? ne’er then give o’er;
No man despairs to do what’s done before.

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorism, No. 142.

If it were done, when ’tis done, then ’twere well
It were done quickly: If the assassination
Could trammel up the consequence, and catch,
With his surcease, success; that but this blow
Might be the be-all and the end-all, here,
But here, upon this bank and shoal of time,
We’d jump the life to come.—But in these cases,
We still have judgment here; that we but teach
Bloody instructions, which, being taught, return
To plague the inventor: This even-handed justice
Commends the ingredients of our poison’d chalice
To our own lips.—He’s here in double trust:
First, as I am his kinsman and his subject,
Strong both against the deed; then, as his host,
Who should against his murtherer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7. (Solus.)

DOOM.—What! will the line stretch out to the crack of doom?

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. (Macbeth, as Eight Kings and Banquo Pass over the stage.)