Chapter LAND to LAUGH of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 2. (Emilia to Desdemona.)

LAST.—Though last, not least in love, yours.

Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act III. Scene 1. (Antony to the Conspirators;) Burns, Prol. to New-Year’s Day; Collins, Ode to Liberty.

Although our last and least.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act I. Scene 1. (Lear to his Daughter Cordelia.)

LATE.—Too late! I will put back the hand of time.
O think it not too late!

Fielding.—The Wedding Day, Act V. Scene 7.

LATIN.—Away with him, away with him! he speaks Latin.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part II. Act IV. Scene 7. (Cade to Lord Saye.)

LAUGH.—When we shall have succeeded, then will be our time to rejoice, and freely laugh.

Buckley’s Sophocles.—Electra, Page 153.

They laugh that win.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 2. (The Moor on watching Iago ply Cassio about Desdemona’s love for him.)

The long, loud laugh, sincere;
The kiss, snatch’d hasty from the sidelong maid,
On purpose guardless, or pretending sleep.

Thomson.—Winter.

To laugh were want of goodness and of grace;
And to be grave, exceeds all power of face.

Pope.—Prol. to Satires, Line 35.

LAUGH.—Laugh and be fat, sir.

Ben Jonson.—The Penates.

Laugh and shake in Rabelais’ easy-chair.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book I. Line 22.

I am tipsy with laughing.

Congreve.—The Way of the World, Act IV. Scene 8.