Chapter NICE to NOBLE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

This sacred shade and solitude, what is it?
’Tis the felt presence of the Deity.
Few are the faults we flatter when alone:
By night an atheist half believes a God.

Young.—Night V. Line 171.

The night, to me, of shrieking sorrow!
The night, to him, that had no morrow!

Campbell.—O’Connor’s Child, Stanza 9.

So pass’d the anxious night away,
And welcome was the peep of day.

Scott.—Last Minstrel, Canto III. Verse 31.

NIGHTINGALE.—Sweet bird, that shun’st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy!

Milton.—Il Penseroso. Rogers.—Human Life.

NO.—No more of that, Hal, an’ thou lovest me.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II, Scene 4.

NOBILITY.—Let wealth and commerce, laws and learning, die,
But leave us still our old nobility.

Lord John Manners.—England’s Trust, Part III. Line 227.

As the soldiers bore dead bodies by,
He call’d them untaught knaves, unmannerly,
To bring a slovenly unhandsome corse
Betwixt the wind and his nobility.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Scene 3.

NOBLE.—Oh, what a noble mind is here o’erthrown!
The glass of fashion, and the mould of form,
The observ’d of all observers! quite, quite, down!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.

Oh! what a noble heart was here undone,
When science self-destroy’d her favourite son!

Byron.—English Bards; On Kirke White.

NOBLE.—A noble soul is like a ship at sea,
That sleeps at anchor when the ocean’s calm.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—Honest Man’s Fortune.