Chapter LURE to LOVE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

LURE to LOVE

LURE.—O, for a falconer’s voice
To lure this tassel-gentle back again.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Juliet making an appointment for the morrow.)

LIQUORS.—Though I look old, yet am I strong and lusty,
For in my youth I never did apply
Hot and rebellious liquors in my blood;
Nor did not with unbashful forehead woo
The means of weakness and debility;
Therefore my age is as a lusty winter,
Frosty, but kindly.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 3. (Adam to Orlando.)

LOVE.—Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

Solomon’s Song, Chap. VIII. Verse 7; Herrick, Hesperides against Love, No. 127.

Didst thou but know the inly touch of love,
Thou would’st as soon go kindle fire with snow,
As seek to quench the fire of love with words.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 7. (Julia to Lucetta.)

O, how this spring of love resembleth
The uncertain glory of an April day;
Which now shews all the beauty of the sun,
And, by and by, a cloud takes all away!

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 3. (Proteus alone.)

LOVE.—Banish that fear; my flame can never waste, For love sincere refines upon the taste.

Colley Cibber.—The Double Gallant, Act V. Scene 1.

Love is not love
Which alters when it alteration finds—
Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks,
But bears it out even to the edge of doom.
If this be error, and upon me prov’d,
I never writ, nor no man ever lov’d.

Shakespeare.—Sonnet, CXVI.

Fie, fie! how wayward is this foolish love,
That, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse,
And presently, all humbled, kiss the rod!

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 2. (Julia alone.)

Ah me! for aught that ever I could read,
Could ever hear by tale or history,
The course of true love never did run smooth.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Scene 1. (Lysander to Hermia.)

O love! unconquerable in the fight.

Buckley.—Sophocles, Antigone, Page 188.

But he who stems a stream with sand,
And fetters flame with flaxen band,
Has yet a harder task to prove—
By firm resolve to conquer love!

Scott.—Lady of the Lake, Canto III. Stanza 28.

Love, free as air, at sight of human ties,
Spreads his light wings, and in a moment flies.

Pope.—Epi. to Eloisa, last Lines.