Chapter PROSE to QUARREL of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

PROSE to QUARREL

PROSE.—Who all in raptures their own works rehearse,
And drawl out measur’d prose, which they call verse.

Churchill.—Independence.

It is not poetry, but prose run mad.

Pope.—To Arbuthnot, Prol. to Sat., Line 187.

Both to be read and censur’d of by those
Whose very reading makes verse senseless prose.

Beaumont.—The Mermaid Tavern.

PROTEST.—Queen. The lady protests too much, methinks.
Hamlet. O, but she’ll keep her word.

Hamlet.—Act III. Scene 2. In the Players’ Scene.

[The first folio, 1603, gives the first line as above, and Knight and Dyce follow it; but the second folio, 1606, has— “The lady doth protest too much, methinks.”]

PROUD.—And was so proud, that should he meet
The twelve apostles in the street,
He’d turn his nose up at them all,
And shove his Saviour from the wall!

Churchill.—The Duellist, Book III. Line 129.On William Warburton.

Proud setter-up and puller-down of kings.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act III. Scene 3.

PROVOCATION.—1. What’s the matter?
2. I can’t tell you, the provocation’s too great for words.

Cibber.—The Refusal, Act III.

PUDDING.—One solid dish his week-day meal affords,
An added pudding solemnized the lord’s.

Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. III. To Bathurst, Line 345.

“Live like yourself,” was soon my lady’s word,
And lo! two puddings smok’d upon the board.

Ibid.—Line 359.

PURITAN.—But one Puritan amongst them, and he sings
psalms to hornpipes.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Scene 2.

PURPOSE.—Make thick my blood,
Stop up the access and passage to remorse;
That no compunctious visitings of nature
Shake my fell purpose.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 5.

PURSE.—Put money in thy purse.—Fill thy purse with money.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3.

PURSES.— Their love
Lies in their purses; and whoso empties them,
By so much fills their hearts with deadly hate.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act II. Scene 2.