Chapter SERMONS to SHADOW of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SERMONS to SHADOW

SERMONS.—Resort to sermons, but to prayers most:
Prayer’s the end of preaching. O be drest;
Stay not for th’ other pin.

Geo. Herbert.—The Temple, Stanza 69.

Never miss sarmunts on Sundays.

Foote.—The Commissary, Act I.

SERPENT.—With indented wave,
Prone on the ground.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 496.

He is a very serpent in my way.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 3. (The King to Hubert.)

A serpent that will sting thee to the heart.

Shakespeare.—King Richard II. Act V. Scene 3. (York to Bolingbroke.)

What, would’st thou have a serpent sting thee twice?

Shakespeare.—Merchant of Venice, Act IV. Scene 1. (Shylock to Bassanio.)

SERVANTS.—From kings to cobblers ’tis the same:
Bad servants wound their masters’ fame.

Gay.—The Squire and his Cur, Part II. Fable VI. Line 61.

SERVE.—Had I but serv’d my God with half the zeal
I serv’d my king, he would not in mine age
Have left me naked to mine enemies.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VIII. Act III. Scene 2. (Wolsey to Cromwell.)

Cast me not off in the time of old age; forsake me not when my strength faileth.

Psalm LXXI. Verse 9.

SERVICE.—I have done the state some service, and they know’t;
No more of that: I pray you, in your letters,
When you shall these unlucky deeds relate,
Speak of me as I am; nothing extenuate,
Nor set down aught in malice: then must you speak
Of one that lov’d not wisely, but too well;
Of one, not easily jealous, but, being wrought,
Perplex’d in the extreme; of one whose hand,
Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away,
Richer than all his tribe; of one, whose subdu’d eyes,
Albei unused to the melting mood,
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinable gum.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act V. Scene 2. (The Moor before his death.)

SET.—Set your affection on things above, not on things on the earth.

Colossians.—Chap. III. Verse 2.

SETTEE.—Ingenious fancy—devised
The soft settee; one elbow at each end,
And in the midst an elbow it received,
United yet divided, twain at once.

Cowper.—The Sofa, Book I. Line 72.