Chapter MODULATION to MOON of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Buckingham.—Essay on Poetry.

MONUMENTS.—Monuments, like men, submit to fate!

Pope.—Rape of the Lock, Canto III. Line 172.

MONUMENT.—I have completed a monument more lasting than brass, and more sublime than the regal elevation of pyramids, which neither the wasting shower, the unavailing north-wind, nor an innumerable succession of years, and the flight of seasons, shall be able to demolish.

Horace.—Book III. Ode 30.

I have now completed a work, which neither the anger of Jove, nor fire, nor steel, nor consuming time, will be able to destroy!

Ovid.—Meta. Book XV. Line 873.

It deserves with characters of brass
A forted residence, ’gainst the tooth of time,
And rasure of oblivion.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act V. Scene 1. (The Duke to Angelo.)

I made my life my monument.

Ben Jonson.—On Sir Charles Cavendish.

When old Time shall lead him to his end,
Goodness and he fill up one monument!

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act II. Scene 1.

If you seek for his monument, look around, Si monumentum requiris, circumspice.

Anonymous.—Epitaph on Sir Christopher Wren, in St. Paul’s Cathedral.

Wouldst thou behold his monument? look around!

Rogers.—Italy (Florence), Page 103, Ed. 1830.

MOON.—Good even, fair moon, good even to thee;
I prithee, dear moon, now shew to me
The form and the features, the speech and degree,
Of the man that true lover of mine shall be.

Scott.—Heart of Mid-Lothian, Chap. XVII.

MOON.—The full-orb’d moon, with her nocturnal ray
Shed o’er the scene a lovely flood of day.

Wheelwright’s Pindar, Olymp. Ode X. Line 102.

The sacred Queen of Night,
Who pours a lovely, gentle light,
Wide o’er the dark, by wanderers blest,
Conducting them to peace and rest.

Thomson.—Ode to Seraphina.

The moon is in her summer glow.

Scott.—Rokeby, Canto I.

My lord, they say, five moons were seen to-night:
Four fixed; and the fifth did whirl about
The other four, in wond’rous motion.