Chapter MYRTLE to NATURE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

Extremes in nature equal ends produce.

Pope.—Epi. II. Line 205.

Extremes in nature equal good produce,
Extremes in man concur to general use.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. Line 161.

Eye nature’s walks, shoot folly as it flies,
And catch the manners living as they rise.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. I. Line 13.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

Young.—Night IV. Line 702.

Who can paint
Like nature? can imagination boast,
Amid its gay creation, hues like hers?
Or can it mix them with that matchless skill,
And lose them in each other, as appears
In every bud that blows?

Thomson’s Seasons.—Spring.

Nature hath fram’d strange fellows in her time.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act I. Scene 1.

NATURE.—Nature, thro’ all her works, in great degree,
Borrows a blessing from variety.

Churchill.—Apology.

Not without art, but yet to nature true.

Churchill.—The Rosciad, Line 699.

Breathing nature lives in every line:
Chaste and subdued.

Collins.—Epi. to Sir Thos. Hanmer, Line 112.

E’en from the tomb the voice of nature cries:
E’en in our ashes live their wonted fires.

Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 23.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;
All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;
All discord, harmony not understood;
All partial evil, universal good.

Pope.—On Man, Epi. I. Line 289.

I have thought some of nature’s journeymen had made men, and not made them well, they imitated humanity so abominably.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2.