Chapter STARVED to STONES of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

STARVED to STONES

STARVED.—Why, boy, thou lookest as if thou wert half starved—like a shotten herring.

Gay.—The Beggar’s Opera, Act III. Scene 1.

STATELY.—Stately stept he east the wa’,
And stately stept he west,
Full seventy years he now had now had seen,
Wi’ scarce seven years of rest.

Sir John Bruce.—Hardyknute, 2 Percy Rel. 102.

STATESMEN.—Where village statesmen talk’d with looks profound,
And news much older than their ale went round.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 223.

STATUES.—Statues of men, scarce less alive than they!

Pope.—To Mr. Addison, Epi. V. Line 10.

Then marble, softened into life, grew warm.

Ibid.—To Augustus, Epi. I. Line 147.

So stands the statue that enchants the world,
So bending tries to veil the matchless boast,
The mingled beauties of exulting Greece.

Thomson.—Summer.

Through the live features of one breathing stone.

Thomson.—Liberty, Part II.

Each dimple sunk,
And every muscle swell’d as nature taught.

Thomson.—Liberty, Part II.

STAY.—1. Stay’d it long?
2. While one with moderate haste might tell a hundred.
3. Longer, longer.
2. Not when I saw it.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Hamlet and Horatio.)

STEED.—Steed threatens steed, in high and boastful neighs,
Piercing the night’s dull ear.

Shakespeare.—King Henry V. Chorus to Act IV.

STEEL..—My man’s as true as steel.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 4. (Romeo to the Nurse.)

STEEL.—Steel to the very back.

Shakespeare.—Titus Andronicus, Act IV. Scene 3. (Titus to his brother Marcus.)

Like a man of steel.

Shakespeare.—Antony and Cleopatra, Act IV. Scene 4. (Antony to Cleopatra.)

Why, he’s a man of wax.