Chapter IMPOSSIBLE to INFIRM of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

IMPOSSIBLE to INFIRM

IMPOSSIBLE.—And what’s impossible, can’t be,
And never, never comes to pass.

George Colman, Jun.—The Water Fiend.

IMPRESSION.—Time but the impression stronger makes,
As streams their channels deeper wear.

Burns.—Mary in Heaven, Verse IV.

INACTIVITY.—The Commons, faithful to their system,
remained in a wise and masterly inactivity.

Sir James Mackintosh.—Defence of the French Revolution, Sect. I. Page 23.

With skilled negligence.

Vaughan.—To St. Mary Magdalene, Line 19.

The frivolous work of polished idleness.

Mackintosh.—Dissert. on Ethical Philosophy. Remarks on Thomas Brown.

Disciplined inaction.

Mackintosh.—Causes of the Revolution of 1688, Chap. VII.

INCUBATION.—Th’ appointed time
With pious toil fulfill’d, the callow young,
Warm’d and expanded into perfect life,
Their little bondage break, and come to light,
A helpless family, demanding food
With constant clamour.

Thomson.—Spring, Line 666.

INDEPENDENCE.—Ourselves are to ourselves the cause of ill;
We may be independent if we will.

Churchill.—Independence, Line 471.

The man who by his labour gets
His bread in independent state,
Who never begs, and seldom eats,
Himself can fix or change his fate.

Prior.—The Old Gentry, Verse 5.

INDEX.—So, Mr. Index, what news with you?

Fielding.—The Author’s Preface, Act II. Scene 4.

What act,
That roars so loud, and thunders in the index?

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (The Queen to Hamlet.)

INDUSTRY.—In every rank, or great or small,
’Tis industry supports us all.

Gay.—Man, Cat, Dog, and Fly, Part II. Fable VIII. Line 62.

INFANCY.—At first, the infant,
Mewling and puking in his nurse’s arms.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 7. (Jaques.)

Infancy, straining backward from the breast,
Tetchy and wayward, what he loveth best
Refusing in his fits, whilst all the while
The mother eyes the wrangler with a smile.