Chapter TENOR to THING of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TENOR to THING

TENOR.—Along the cool sequester’d vale of life,
They kept the noiseless tenor of their way.

Gray,—Elègy.

Through the sequester’d vale of rural life,
The venerable patriarch guileless held
The tenor of his way.

Dr. Porteus.—Death, a Poem, Line 109. The idea is Gray’s; he began his Elegy in the Autumn of 1742, when Porteus was only eleven years of age.

TEXT.—You shall see a beautiful quarto page, where a neat rivulet of text shall meander through a meadow of margin.

Sheridan.—School for Scandal, Act I. Scene 1.

Every page having an ample marge,
And every marge enclosing in the midst
A square of text that looks like a little blot.

Tennyson.—Idylls of the King, Vivien.

The meandering of a current hastening through pleasant fields.

Smart’s Horace.—Art of Poetry.

If I had his name,
I’d print it in text letters.

Middleton.—The Roaring Girl, Act I. Scene 1.

THANKS.—If ever I thank any man I’ll thank you; … when a man thanks me heartily, methinks I have given him a penny, and he renders me beggarly thanks.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 6. (Jaques to Amiens.)

When I’m not thank’d at all, I’m thank’d enough.

Fielding.—Tom Thumb, Act I. Scene 3.

Thank you kindly, sir.

Anonymous.—Trick upon Trick, Act I.

Your love deserves my thanks.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act III. Scene 7. (Gloster to Buckingham and the Mayor.)

I can no other answer make, but, thanks,
And thanks; and ever oft good turns
Are shuffled off with such uncurrent pay.

Shakespeare.—Twelfth Night, Act III. Scene 3. (Sebastian to Antonio.)

THANKS.—No more of thanks, no more.

Middleton.—The Roaring Girl, Act I. Scene 1.

THAT.—That it should come to this.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act I. Scene 2. (Hamlet, after his interview with his Mother and Uncle.)