Chapter UNKNOWN to VACATION of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

UNKNOWN to VACATION

UNKNOWN.—Not to know me argues yourselves unknown,
The lowest of your throng.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IV. Line 830.

Far above all reward, yet to which all is due;
And this, ye great unknown! is only known to you.

Swift.—Ode to the Athenian Soc. Verse 7.

The Unknown has kept his faith.

Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chapter 36.

UNSUNN’D.—I thought her
As chaste as unsunn’d snow.

Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act II. Scene 5. (Posthumus alone.)

White as chaste, and pure
As wind-fann’d snow.

Beaumont and Fletcher.—The Two Noble Kinsmen, Act V. Scene I.

UNWASHED.—Another lean, unwash’d artificer
Cuts off his tale, and talks of Arthur’s death.

Shakespeare.—King John, Act IV. Scene 2. (Hubert to John.)

UNWEPT.—To the vile dust, from whence he sprung,
Unwept, unhonour’d, and unsung.

Scott.—Lay of the Last Minstrel, Canto VI. Stanza 1.

Their name unknown, their praise unsung.

Scott.—Ibid. Canto V. Stanza 2.

Unwept, unnoted, and for ever dead,

Pope.—The Odyssey, Book V. Line 402.

In endless night they sleep, unwept, unknown,
No bard had they to make all time their own.

Francis’ Horace, Book IV. Ode 9.

UNWEPT.—Unblest, untended, and unmourn’d.

Thomson.—Summer.

Who, noteless as the race from which he sprung,
Saved others’ names, but left his own unsung.

Scott.—Waverley, Chap. XIII.

Thou should’st not to the grave descend
Unmourn’d, unhonour’d, and unsung.

Bernard Barton.—On Bloomfield’s Death, Verse 1.

UNWHIPT.—Unwhipt of justice.

Churchill.—The Candidate, Line 85.

URCHIN.—The shivering urchin, bending as he goes,
With slipshod heels, and dewdrop at his nose.