Chapter FUNERALS to GAZELLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

FUNERALS to GAZELLE

FUNERALS.—But, see! the well-plumed hearse comes nodding on, stately and slow;

But tell us, why this waste?
Why this ado in earthing up a carcass
That’s fallen into disgrace, and in the nostrils smells horrible?

Blair.—The Grave.

It is but waste to bury them preciously.

Chaucer.—The Wife of Bath, Prol. Line 6082.

The nodding plume,
Which makes poor man’s humiliation proud;
Boast of our ruin! triumph of our dust!

Young.—Night IX. Line 2128.

Why is the hearse with scutcheons blazon’d round,
And with the nodding plume of ostrich crown’d?
The dead know it not, nor profit gain;
It only serves to prove the living vain.
How short is life! how frail is human trust!
Is all this pomp for laying dust to dust?

Gay.—Trivia, Book III. Line 231.

Thrift, thrift, Horatio! the funeral bak’d meats
Did coldly furnish forth the marriage tables.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (The Prince.)

FUR.—The fur that warms a monarch, warm’d a bear.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. III. Line 44.

FURY.—Full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5. (On his Wife’s Death.)

GALL.—Let there be gall enough in thy ink; though thou write with a goose-pen, no matter.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 2. (Sir Toby to Sir Andrew in Olivia’s house.)

GALLANT.—Is this that haughty gallant, gay Lothario?

Rowe.—The Fair Penitent, Act V. Scene 1.

GARDEN.—Who loves a garden loves a green-house too.

Cowper.—The Task, Book III. Line 566.

GARRICK.—Here lies David Garrick, describe him who can,
An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Goldsmith.—Retaliation, Line 93.

Garrick take the chair;
Nor quit it—till thou place an equal there.

Churchill.—The Rosciad, last lines.

GAY the POET.—Well, then, poor G [ay] lies under ground!
So there’s an end of honest Jack;
So little justice here he found,
`Tis ten to one he’ll ne’er come back.

Pope.—Epitaph on Gay, Gilfillan’s Ed.