Chapter SUITOR to SUN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

The glorious lamp of heaven, the sun.

Herrick’s Hesp.—To the Virgins, No. 93.

He maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good.

St. Matthew, Chap. V. Verse 45.

The sun, though in full glory bright,
Shines upon all men with impartial light.

Cowley.—Elegy on Littleton.

The self-same sun that shines upon his court,
Hides not his visage from our cottage, but
Looks on alike.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act IV. Scene 3. (Perdita to Polixenes.)

SUN.—Nor let the pride of great ones scorn
This charmer of the plains;
That sun, who bids their diamonds blaze,
To paint our lily deigns.

Mallet.—Edwin and Emma, Verse 4.

Like Pentheus, when, distracted with his fear,
He saw two suns, and double Thebes appear.

Dryden.—The Æneid, Book IV. Line 469.

Edward IV. is said to have seen three suns at one time, after the battle of Mortimer’s Cross, and that they immediately conjoined.

Pegge’s Curialia Miscellanea, 105, 201.

Edw. Dazzle mine eyes, or do I see three suns?
Rich. Three glorious suns, each one a perfect sun:
See, see! they join, embrace, and seem to kiss;
Now are they but one.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part III. Act II. Scene 1. (Edward, Prince of Wales, to Richard of York.)

What light through yonder window breaks?
It is the east, and Juliet is the sun!
Arise, fair sun, and kill the envious moon.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act II. Scene 2. (Romeo on seeing Juliet at the window.)

I’gin to be a-weary of the sun.

Shakespeare.—Macbeth, Act V. Scene 5. (On hearing that the Wood is moving to Dunsinane.)

He from our sight retires awhile, and then
Rises and shines o’er all the world again.

Fielding.—The Wedding Day, Act I. Scene 6.

God made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day,and the lesser light to rule the night.

Genesis, Chap I. Verse 16.

And God made two great lights, great for their use
To man; the greater to have rule by day,
The less by night, altern.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book VII.

Men perish in advance, as if the sun
Should set ere noon.