Chapter SLEEVE to SMILE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

SLEEVE to SMILE

SLEEVE.—A broken sleeve
Keeps the arm back.

Ben Jonson.—The Fortunate Isles.

SLIP.—If he had been as you,
And you as he, you would have slipp’d like him.

Shakespeare.—Measure for Measure, Act II. Scene 2. (Isabel to Angelo.)

SLOUGH.—The name of the slough was Despond.

Bunyan.—Pilg. Pro., Part I.

SLOW.—Slow and steady wins the race.

Lloyd.—The Hare and Tortoise.

Wisely and slow: they stumble that run fast.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 3. (The Friar to Romeo.)

SLUGGARD.—Yet a little sleep, a little slumber, a little folding of the hands to sleep.

Proverbs, Chap. XXIV. Verse 33.

’Tis the voice of the sluggard, I hear him complain:—
“You’ve wak’d me too soon—I must slumber again,”
A little more sleep, and a little more slumber.

Watts.—The Sluggard. Moral Songs.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard; consider her ways, and be wise.

Proverbs, Chap. VI. Verse 6.

SLUT.—Our Polly is a sad slut, nor heeds what we have taught her,
I wonder any man alive will ever rear a daughter;
For when she’s drest with care and cost, all tempting fine and gay,
As men should serve a cucumber, she flings herself away.

Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera.

SMALL-POX.—That dire disease, whose ruthless power
Withers the beauty’s transient flower.

Goldsmith.—Double Transformation, Line 75.

SMELL.—A very ancient and fish-like smell.

Shakespeare.—The Tempest, Act II. Scene 2. (Trinculo.)

And smelt so? puh!

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (Hamlet to Horatio.)

There was the rankest compound of villanous smell that ever offended nostril.

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act III. Scene 5. (Falstaff to Ford.)

SMILE.—A smile that glow’d
Celestial rosy red, love’s proper hue.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VIII. Line 618.