Chapter DOOR to DREAMERS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

DOOR to DREAMERS

DOOR.—A pamper’d menial drove me from the door,
To seek a shelter in an humbler shed.

The Rev. T. Moss.—Gent. Mag. Vol. LXX. Page 41.

Where the rude Carinthian boor
Against the houseless stranger shuts the door.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 3.

Ye find no rude inhospitable swain,
Who drives the stranger from his door away.

Wheelwright.—Pindar, XI. Olymp. Ode, Line 23.

No surly porter stands in guilty state,
To spurn imploring famine from the gate.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 105.

Last the sire and his three sons,
With their four wives; and God made fast the door.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book XI.

DOUBLE.—Double, double, toil and trouble,
Fire burn; and caldron bubble.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act IV. Scene 1. (All the Witches.)

Double, double toil and trouble; literally, trouble brings trouble to trouble.

Buckley’s Sophocles.—Ajax, Page 267.

War, he sung, is toil and trouble;
Honour but an empty bubble.

Dryden.—Alexander’s Feast.

DOUBLET.—Doublet and hose ought to shew itself courageous to petticoat.

Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act II. Scene 4. (Rosalind to Celia.)

DOUBT.—Doubt thou the stars are fire;
Doubt that the sun doth move;
Doubt truth to be a liar;
But never doubt, I love.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act II. Scene 2. (Lines sent by Hamlet to Ophelia.)

He wanted a peg to hang his thoughts upon.

Sir Thomas More.—His Household, Page 17.

DOUBT.—Make me to see’t; or, at the least, so prove it,
That the probation bear no hinge, nor loop,
To hang a doubt on: or woe upon thy life!

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Othello to Iago.)

DOUBTLESS.—Doubtless the pleasure is as great
Of being cheated as to cheat.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto III.

DOUBTS.—O, what damned minutes tells he o’er,
Who dotes yet doubts; suspects, yet fondly loves!

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (Iago to Othello, warning him against Jealousy.)