Chapter EXILE to FACE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act IV. Scene 7.(The King to Laertes.)

He lives to build, not boast a generous race;
No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

Savage.—The Bastard, Line 7.

Her face was like an April morn,
Clad in a wintry cloud:
And clay-cold was her lily hand,
That held her sable shroud.

Mallet.—Margaret’s Ghost, 3 Percy Rel. 392.

Yet no cold vot’ress of the cloister she,
Warm her devotion, warm her charity;
The face the index of a feeling mind,
And her whole conduct rational and kind.

Crabbe.—Tales of the Hall, Book XVI.

FACE.—’Tis not thy face, though that by nature’s made
An index to thy soul, though there display’d
We see thy mind at large, and through thy skin
Peeps out that courtesy which dwells within.

Churchill.—The Dedication.

There’s no art
To find the mind’s construction in the face;
He was a gentleman on whom I built
An absolute trust.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 4. (Duncan alluding to Cawdor, whom he had executed.)

Open, candid, and generous, his heart was the constant companion of his hand, and his tongue the artless index of his mind.

George Canning.—Microcosm, No. XIX. 19th March, 1797.

O, what may man within him hide,
Though angel on the outward side.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act III. Scene 2. (The Duke on Angelo.)

So nature has decreed: so oft we see
Men passing fair, in outward lineaments
Elaborate; less, inwardly, exact.

J. Phillips.—Cider, Book I.

Eusthenes judged men by their features.

Theocritus.—Buckley, Page 160.

It strikes the eye more than the mind.

Seneca.—Epistle 5.

No more can you distinguish of a man
Than of his outward show; which, God he knows,
Seldom or never jumpeth with the heart.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act III. Scene 1. (Richard to the Prince of Wales.)

His face was of that doubtful kind,
That wins the eye but not the mind.

Scott.—Rokeby, Canto V. Stanza 16.