Chapter SEEN to SEPULCHRE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SEEN to SEPULCHRE

SEEN.—I have seen
All London—and London has seen me.

Ben Jonson.—The Devil is an Ass, Act I. Scene 3.

Europe he saw, and Europe saw him too.

Pope.—The Dunciad, Book IV. Line 294.

SELF.—Explore the dark recesses of the mind,
In the soul’s honest volume read mankind,
And own, in wise and simple, great and small,
The same grand leading principle in all,
… and by whatever name we call
The ruling tyrant, Self is all in all.

Churchill.—The Conference, Line 167.

I to myself am dearer than a friend.

Shakespeare.—The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 6. (Proteus balancing himself between honour and dishonour.)

Whate’er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf,
Not one will change his neighbour with himself.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II Line 261.

The shin is further off than the knee; let me have something myself.

Buckley’s Theocritus, Page 84.

You shall have her all
Jewels and gold sometimes, so that herself
Appears the least part of herself.

Ben Jonson.—Catiline, Act II. Scene I.

Seek not thyself, without thyself, to find.

Dryden’s Persius.—Sat. I. Line 19.

Or sought myself, without myself, from home!

Ben Jonson.—The New Inn, Act II. Scene I.

Born to myself, I like myself alone.

Rochester.—Essay to Mulgrave.

Self-defence is nature’s eldest law.

Dryden.—Absalom and Ahithophel, Part I. Line 458.

We have this principal desire implanted in us by nature, that our first wish is to preserve ourselves.

Yonge’s Cicero.—De Finibus, Book IV. Div. X. Page 219.

SENATE.—And shake alike the senate and the field.

Pope.—Epilogue to Sat. Div. II. Line 87.

SENSE.—Yet, if he has sense but to balance a straw,
He will sure take the hint from the picture I draw.

Smollett.—A Song, Verse 4.