Chapter HIT to HOME of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

HIT to HOME

HIT.—A hit, a very palpable hit.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 2. (Osrick to Hamlet and Laertes.)

HOARSE.—Warwick is hoarse with calling thee.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part II. Act V. Scene 2. (Warwick calling for Clifford.)

HOG.—But for one piece they thought it hard
From the whole hog to be debarr’d.

Cowper.—Love of the World Reproved.

HOHENLINDEN.—On Linden when the sun was low,
All bloodless lay th’ untrodden snow,
And dark as winter was the flow
Of Iser, rolling rapidly.

Campbell.—Verse 1.

The combat deepens. On, ye brave,
Who rush to glory, or the grave!
Wave, Munich! all thy banners wave,
And charge with all thy chivalry.

Ibid.

HOLE.—If I find a hole in his coat, I will tell him my mind.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Act III. Scene 6. (Fluellen to Gower.)

If there’s hole in a’ your coats,
I rede ye tent it;
A chield’s amang you takin’ notes,
And, faith, he’ll prent it.

Burns.—Captain Grose.

HOLIDAY.—A while to work, and, after, holiday.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act III. Scene 1. (Bolingbroke to York and others at Bristol.)

HOLINESS.—Never poor lady had so much unbred holiness
About her person: I am never drest
Without a sermon.—I must show
Text for the fashions of my gowns.
She works religious petticoats: for flowers
She’ll make church histories.

Mayne.—The City Match, Act II. Scene 2.

HOME.—There’s a strange something, which without a brain
Fools feel, and which e’en wise men can’t explain,
Planted in man, to bind him to that earth,
In dearest ties, from whence he drew his birth.

Churchill.—The Farewell.

For the whole world, without a native home,
Is nothing but a prison of larger room.

Cowley.—To the Bishop of Lincoln.

Such is the patriot’s boast, where’er we roam,
His first, best country, ever is at home.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 73.

O’er hill, dale, and woodland, with rapture we roam;
Yet returning, still find the dear pleasures at home;
Where the cheerful good-humour gives honesty grace,
And the heart speaks content in the smiles of the face.