Chapter ROADS to ROME of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

ROADS to ROME

ROADS.—Had you seen but these roads before they were made,
You’d have held up your hands and bless’d Gen’ral Wade.

Scott.—Tales of my Landlord, Chap. XVIII.

Yes, sir, I am old Will Boniface, pretty well known upon this road, as the saying is.

Farquhar.—Beaux Stratagem, Act I. Scene 1.

ROAM.—Where’er I roam, whatever realms to see,
My heart untravell’d fondly turns to thee;
Still to my brother turns, with ceaseless pain,
And drags at each remove a lengthening chain.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 7.

ROAR.—I will roar, that it will do any man’s heart good to
hear me.
I will aggravate my voice so, that I will roar you as gently as
any sucking dove: I will roar you an ’twere any nightingale.

Shakespeare.—Midsummer Night’s Dream, Act I. Scene 2. (Bottom to Quince.)

ROB.—Rob me the Exchequer the first thing thou doest.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act III. Scene 3. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

ROBBED.—He that is robb’d, not wanting what is stol’n,
Let him not know it, and he’s not robb’d at all.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene 3. (The Moor to Iago.)

ROBES.—Our old robes sit easier than our new.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 4. (Macduff to Rosse.)

Such virtue is there in a robe and gown!

Dryden.—Prol. to Troilus and Cressida.

ROD.—Take thy correction mildly. Kiss the rod.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 1.

Love is a boy by poets styl’d,
Then spare the rod, and spoil the child.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto I. Line 843.

He that spareth his rod hateth his son.

Proverbs.—Chap. XIII. Verse 24; Chap. XIX. Verse 18.

ROGUE.—Rogue in spirit, and rogue in grain.

Heath (Robt.) 1650.

ROLAND FOR AN OLIVER.—

[This is an old saying, and not a quotation. For its supposed origin, see Bailey’s Dictionary, title “Rowland” and “Oliver,” and 9 Notes and Queries, 457.]

ROMANS.—Romans, countrymen, and lovers.