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

Cowper.—Truth, Line 143.

URN.—Can storied urn or animated bust
Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?
Can honour’s voice provoke the silent dust,
Or flattery soothe the dull cold ear of death?

Gray.—Elegy, Verse II.

USE.—Use can almost change the stamp of nature.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 4. (To his Mother.)

Fashion, the arbiter and rule of right.

Francis’ Horace.—Art of Poetry, Verse 72.

Use is the judge, the law and rule of speech.

Roscommon.—Art of Poetry.

USURER.—Thou art a most pernicious usurer.

Shakespeare.—King Henry VI. Part I. Act III. Scene I. (Gloster to the Bishop of Winchester.)

VACANT.—There is no flock, however watched and tended,
But one dead lamb is there;
There is no fireside, howsoe’er defended,
But has one vacant chair.

Longfellow.—Resignation.

VACATION.—Why should not conscience have vacation
As well as other courts o’ th’ nation?
Have equal power to adjourn,
Appoint appearance and return?

Butler.—Hudibras, Part II. Canto II. Line 317.