Chapter TOWERS to TREE of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

TOWERS to TREE

TOWERS.—Ye towers of Julius! London’s lasting shame,
With many a foul and midnight murder fed.

Gray.—The Bard, II. 3.

TOWN.—The town has ting’d the country, and the stain
Appears a spot upon a vestal’s robe,
The worse for what it soils.

Cowper.—The Task, Book IV. Line 553. 1. The town talks of nothing else. 2. I am very sorry, ma’am, the town has so little to do.

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

TRADE.—I hope we shall have no such people as tradesmen, shortly; I can’t see any use they are of: if I am chose, I’ll bring in a bill to extirpate all trade out of the nation.

Fielding.—Pasquin, Act II. Scene 1.

Trade, I cashier thee till to-morrow.

Ben Jonson.—The Case is Altered, Act IV. Scene 3.

TRANQUILLITY.—How rev’rend is the face of this tall pile,
Looking tranquillity.

Congreve.—Mourning Bride, Act II. Scene 1.

Sleeping in bright tranquillity.

Tom Moore.—The Fire Worshippers.

Like ships that have gone down at sea,
When heaven was all tranquility.

Tom Moore.—The Light of the Harem.

TRANSITORY.—Keep nothing that is transitory about you.

Ben Jonson.—The Alchemist, Act III. Scene 1.

TRAVELLER.—As one who in his journey bates at noon,
Though bent on speed.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book XII. Line 1.

When I was at home, I was in a better place;
But travellers must be content.

Shakespeare.—As You Like it, Act II. Scene 4. (Touchstone to Rosalind.)

TRAVELLER.—Cheerful at morn he wakes from short repose,
Breathes the keen air, and carols as he goes.

Goldsmith.—The Traveller, Line 185.

TREAD.—To tread the walks of death he stood prepar’d,
And what he greatly thought, he nobly dar’d.

Pope.—The Odyssey, Book Line 312.

TREASON.—For while the treason I detest,
The traitor still I love.

Hoole’s Metastatio.—Romulus and Hersilia, Act I. Scene 5.