Chapter EMPIRES to ENGLAND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Old Proverb.—

You must endure, not blame, that which cannot be altered.

Syrianus.—Riley’s Dict. Class. Quot. 123.

By bravely enduring it, an evil which cannot be avoided is overcome.

Old Proverb.—Riley, supra.

What cannot be eschew’d, must be embraced.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act V. Scene 5. (Page to Falstaff.)

ENEMY.—O that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains!

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

ENERGY.—Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join
The varying verse, the full resounding line,
The long majestic march, and energy divine.

Pope.—To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 267.

ENGAGING.—There is something marvellous engaging in
this young man! Sixty years ago, in Queen Elizabeth’s
time, I was just such another.

George Colman, Jun.—The Iron Chest, Act I. Scene 2.

ENGLAND—The Gaul, ’tis held of antique story,
Saw Britain link’d to his now adverse strand;
No sea between, nor cliff sublime and hoary,
He pass’d with unwet feet through all our land.

Collins.—Ode to Liberty. [This tradition is mentioned by several of our old historians.]

For of old time, since first the rushing flood,
Urg’d by Almighty Pow’r, this favour’d isle
Turn’d flashing from the continent aside,
Indented shore to shore responsive still,
Its guardian she.

Thomson.—Britain, Liberty; Part IV. Line 460.