Chapter METAL to MIND of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

METAL to MIND

METAL.—Yielding Metal flow’d to human form.

Pope.—To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 148.

Here’s metal more attractive.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To his Mother.)

Why, now I see there’s mettle in thee; and even, from this instant, do build on thee a better opinion than before.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act IV. Scene 2.

By this good light, a wench of matchless mettle.

Scott.—Fortunes of Nigel, Chap. XIX.

METHINKS.—Methinks, I scent the morning’s air.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 5.

MILDLY.—Well, mildly be it then, mildly.

Shakespeare.—Coriolanus, Act III. Scene 2.

MILK.—A land flowing with milk and honey.

Numbers.—Chap. XIV. Verse 13.

May the Himera flow with milk instead of water! May the fountain of Sybaris flow with honey!

Banks’ Theocritus.—Idyll V. Page 32.

MILLINER.—He was perfumed like a milliner.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Scene 3. (Hotspur.)

MIND.—Were I so tall to reach the pole,
Or grasp the ocean with my span,
I must be measur’d by my soul:
The mind’s the standard of the man.

Watts.—False Greatness, Verse 3.

The mind is the proper judge of the man.

Seneca.—Happy Life, Chap. I.

John Gilpin kiss’d his loving wife;
O’erjoyed was he to find
That, though on pleasure she was bent,
She had a frugal mind.

Cowper.—John Gilpin, Verse 8.

MIND.—The mind, relaxing into needful sport,
Should turn to writers of an abler sort,
Whose wit well managed, and whose classic style,
Give Truth a lustre, and make Wisdom smile.

Cowper.—Retirement, Line 715.

It is the mind that maketh good or ill,
That maketh wretch or happy, rich or poor.