Chapter LIFT to LIKE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LIFT to LIKE

LIFT.—Lift up your heads, O ye gates.

Psalm.—Chap. XXIV. Verse 7.

We directed our steps towards the mansion of a wealthy man, full of precious things. Gates, fly open!

Buckley’s Homer.—The Odyssey, Life of Homer, Page 29.

LIGHT.—He that has light within his own clear breast,
May sit i’ the centre, and enjoy bright day:
But he that hides a dark soul, and foul thoughts,
Benighted walks under the mid-day sun:
Himself is his own dungeon.

Milton.—Comus, Line 381.

In that I shine confest,
By my own light, in motion or at rest.

Ariosto.—Orlando Furioso, Canto XXIII. Stanza 36. (Rose’s Transl.)

Virtue could see to do what virtue would
By her own radiant light.

Milton.—Comus.

LIKE.—Were I like thee, I’d throw myself away.

Shakespeare.—Timon of Athens, Act IV. Scene 3. (Timon to Apemantus.)

It was not my fault, Major Bridgenorth,
How could I help it? like will to like—
The boy would come—The girl would see him.

Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XIV.

Like will to like; each creature loves his kind,
Chaste words proceed still from a bashful mind.

Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, 293.

There’s not a man among them but must please,
Since they are like each other as are peas.

Swift.—Horace, Book I. Epi. 5.

As like as milk is to milk.

Riley.—Plautus, The Bacchides, Act I. Scene 2.

As Cherry is to cherry.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act V. Scene 1. (Lady to King Henry.)

Almost as like as eggs.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act I. Scene 2. (Leontes to Mamillius.)

F—loves the senate, Hockleyhole his brother,
Like in all else, as one egg to another,

Pope.—Satire, to Fortescue, Book I. Line 49.

Like Niobe, all tears.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (After his interview with the King, Queen, and Lords.)