Chapter SCRAPS to SEA of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SCRAPS to SEA

SCRAPS.— The scraps
From other trenchers, twice or thrice translated.

Brome.—The Merry Beggars, Act I.

SCREW.—Screw your courage to the sticking-place,
And we’ll not fail.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act I. Scene 7. (Lady Macbeth to her Husband.)

SCRIBBLE.—Ye Druids! rich in native lead,
Who daily scribble for your daily bread,

Byron.—English Bards.

Fond of the Muse, to her devote my days,
And scribble—not for pudding, but for praise.

Blacklock.—The Author’s Picture.

SCRIPTURES.—Stars are poor books, and oftentimes do miss:
This book of stars lights to eternal bliss.

Geo. Herbert.—The Temple: Holy Scriptures, Part II.

SCRIVENER.—To this brave man the knight repairs
For counsel in his law affairs,
And found him mounted in his pew,
With books and money placed for shew.

Butler.—Hudibras, Part III. Canto 3.

Thou son of parchment, got betwixt the inkhorn
And the stuff’d process-bag—that mayest call
The pen thy father, and the ink thy mother,
The wax thy brother, and the sand thy sister,
And the good pillory thy cousin.

Scott.—Fortunes of Nigel, Chap. XXXIV.

SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.—Incidit in Scyllam cupiens vitare Charvbdim.

Philip Gualtier de Lille.—A poet of the 13th century.

He falls into Scylla in endeavouring to escape Charybdis.

Ryley.—Dict. Classical Quot. 176.

SCYLLA AND CHARYBDIS.—When I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother.

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act III. Scene 5. (Launcelot to Jessica.)

SEA.—There is sorrow on the sea; it cannot be quiet.

Jeremiah.—Chap XLIX. Verse 23.

What aileth thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? Tremble, thou earth, at the presence of the Lord: at the presence of the God of Jacob.

Psalm CXIV. Verses 3, 5, 7.

He proceeded to drive over the billows, and the monsters of the
deep sported beneath him on all sides from their recesses, nor
were ignorant of their king. For joy the sea separated.

Buckley’s Homer.—The Iliad, Book XIII. Page 229.