Chapter SHIPWRECK to SIGNS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SHIPWRECK to SIGNS

SHIPWRECK.—The air was clam, and on the level brine
Sleek Panope with all her sisters play’d.
It was that fatal and perfidious bark,
Built in the eclipse, and rigg’d with curses dark,
That sunk so low that sacred head of thine.

Milton.—Lycidas, Line 98.

SHOOT.—To shoot at crows is powder flung away.

Gay.—Ep. IV. Last line.

SHORN.—Shorn of his beams.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I.

SHOW.—I have that within which passeth show.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2.(To his Mother and his Uncle.)

By outward show let’s not be cheated;
An ass should like an ass be treated.

Gay.—The Packhorse and Carrier, Part II. Fable XI. Line 99.

SHREWSBURY CLOCK.—We rose both at an instant, and fought a long hour by Shrewsbury clock.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act V. Scene 4. (Falstaff to the Princes Henry and John.)

SHRINE.—Shrine of the mighty! can it be,
That this is all remains of thee?

Byron.—The Giaour, Line 106.

SHUT.—And shut the gates of mercy on mankind.

Gray.—Elegy, Verse 17.

Shut up
In measureless content.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act II. Scene 1. (Banquo to Macbeth.)

SICKNESS.—We are not ourselves,
When nature, being oppress’d, commands the mind
To suffer with the body.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act II. Scene 4. (The King to Gloster.)

This sickness doth infect
The very life-blood of our enterprise.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act IV. Scene I. (Hotspur on hearing of his father’s illness.)

SIGH.—Implores the passing tribute of a sigh.

Gray.—Elegy in a Churchyard, Verse 20.

Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul,
And waft a sigh from Indus to the pole.

Pope.—Eloisa and Abelard, Line 57.

A plague of sighing and grief! it blows a man up like a bladder.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act II. Scene 4. (Falstaff to the Prince.)