Chapter MORTAL to MOUSE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

MORTAL to MOUSE

MORTAL.—All men think all men mortal but themselves.

Young.—Night I. Line 424.

MORTAR.—If he take you in hand, sir, with an argument,
He’ll bray you in a mortar.

Ben Jonson.—The Alchemist, Act II. Scene 1.

MOTES.—The gay motes that people the sunbeams.

Milton.—II Penseroso, Line 8.

Like motes dependent on the sunny beam.

Hood.—Midsummer Fairies, Verse 23.

MOTHER.—There is a sight all hearts beguiling—
A youthful mother to her infant smiling,
Who with spread arms and dancing feet,
And cooing voice, returns its answer sweet.

Baillie.—Legend of Lady Griseld, Verse 32.

Where yet was ever found a mother
Who’d give her booby for another?

Gay.—Fable III. Line 33.

O wonderful son, that can so astonish a mother!

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

MOULD.—No autumn, nor no age, ever approach
This heavenly piece, which, Nature having wrought,
She lost her needle.

Massinger and Field.—Fatal Dowry, Act II. Scene 2.

I think Nature hath lost the mould
Where she her shape did take;
Or else I doubt if Nature could
So fair a creature make.

Anonymous.—Gilfillan’s specimens of the less known British Poets, Vol. I. Page 132.

There camps his son: of all his following
Is none so beauteous: Nature broke the mould
In which she cast him.

Ariosto.—The Orlando Furioso, Canto X. Stanza 84. (Rose’s Translation.)

Nature, despairing e’er to make the like,
Brake suddenly the mould in which ’twas fashion’d,

Massinger.—The Parliament of Love, Act V. Scene last.

Sighing that Nature form’d but one such man,
And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan.

Byron.—Monody on the Death of R. B. Sheridan.

MOUNTAINS.—The mountains and the hills shall break forth before you into singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands.

Isaiah, Chap. LV. Verse 12.