Chapter VALOUR to VEXED of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

VALOUR to VEXED

VALOUR.—And call old valour from the grave.

Bloomfield.—Banks of the Wye, Book II.

In vain doth valour bleed,
While avarice and rapine share the land.

Milton.—Sonnet XV., last Lines.

VANISH.—Go; vanish into air; away!

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act III. Scene I. (Clown to Musician.)

And so, with shrieks,
She melted into air.

Shakespeare.—Winter’s Tale, Act III. Scene 3. (Antigonus when leaving the babe Perdita in a desert country.)

Like smoke blended with the thin air.

Davidson’s Virgil, by Buckley, Georgics, Book IV. Line 500.

He had scarcely spoken, when suddenly the circumambient cloud splits asunder, and dissolves into open air.

Davidson’s Æneid, Book I. Page 122.

With these words she left me in tears, ready to say many things, and vanished into thin air.

Davidson’s Æneid, Book II. Page 152.

Vanish like hailstones, go!

Shakespeare.—Merry Wives of Windsor, Act I. Scene 3. (Falstaff to Pistol and Nym.)

Vanish, vanish—and never let me see that uncomfortable face of thine, till thou canst shew me a shilling of thy own getting.

Colley Cibber.—The Rival Fools, Act I. Scene I.

VANITY.—And not a vanity is given in vain.

Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 290.

Hal, I prithee trouble me no more with vanity.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part I. Act I. Scene 2. (Falstaff to Prince Henry.)

VARIETY.—Variety’s the very spice of life,
That gives it all its flavour.

Cowper,—The Task, Book II. Line 606.

VARIETY.—Varieties too regular for chance.

Cowley.—Translation of Georgics, Book II.

Variety alone gives joy;
The sweetest meats the soonest cloy.

Prior.—The Turtle and Sparrow, Line 234.