Chapter FRAILTY to FRIEND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FRAILTY to FRIEND

FRAILTY.—Frailty, thy name is woman.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (The Prince on his mother’s early marriage to his uncle.)

FRANCE.—Gay, sprightly land of mirth and social ease,
Pleased with thyself, whom all the world can please.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 241.

They order this matter better in France.

Sterne.—Sentimental Journey, Part I.

FREE.—He is the freeman whom the truth makes free,
And all are slaves beside.

Cowper.—Winter’s Morning Walk.

They would no more in bondage bend their knee,
But, once made freemen, would be always free.

Churchill.—Independence.

But I was free born.

St.Paul.—The Acts, Chap. XXII. Verse 28.

I am as free as Nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Dryden.—Conquest of Granada, Act I. Scene I.

By my troth, this is free and easy indeed.

Riley’s Plautus, The Pseudolus, Act V. Scene 2.

FREEMASONS.—We meet as shadows in the land of dreams,
Which speak not but in signs.

Anon.—See St. Ronan’s Well, Chap. IX.

FRENZY.—The poet’s eye in a fine frenzy rolling,
Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven;
And, as imagination bodies forth
The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen
Turns them to shapes, and gives to airy nothing
A local habitation and a name.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act V. Scene 1. (Theseus.)

FRIEND.—Give me the avow’d, the erect, the manly foe,
Bold I can meet—perhaps may turn his blow;
But of all plagues, good heaven, thy wrath can send,
Save, save, oh! save me from the candid friend!

Canning.—New Morality.

’Tis thus that on the choice of friends
Our good or evil name depends.

Gay.—The Old Woman and her Cats, Part I. Fable XXIII. Line 9.

A lost good name is ne’er retriev’d.

Gay.—The Fox dying, Part I. Fable XXIX. Line 46.