Chapter VISAGE to WANDERINGS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

VISAGE to WANDERINGS

VISAGE.—I saw Othello’s visage in his mind.

Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 3. (Desdemona to the Senate.)

Put not you on the visage of the times,
And be, like them, to Percy troublesome.

Shakespeare.—King Henry IV. Part II. Act II. Scene 3. (Northumberland to his Lady.)

VISIONS.—I have seen visions.

Fletcher.—Rule a Wife and Have a Wife, Act IV. Scene 3.

VISITOR.—The hour’s come, but not the man.

Scott.—Heart of Mid-Lothian, Chapter IV.

VISITS.—Like those of angels, short and far between.

Blair.—The Grave.

Like angel-visits, few and far between.

Campbell.—Pleasures of Hope, Part II.

Like angels’ visits, short and bright.

John Norris.—Born 1657, died 1711; Author of Poems, Essays, Letters and Discourses, &c. ;and the thought appears again in his Elegy on his Niece, where we read—

Angels, as ’tis but seldom they appear,
So neither do they make long stay;
They do but visit, and away.

See “The Christian Poet,” 1828, by Jas. Montgomery.

So few and rare between.

Hesiod.—On Works, Div. II. Line 398. (Valpy’s Ed. translated by Elton.)

VOCATION.—Why, ’tis my vocation,
Hal: ’tis no sin for a man to labour in his vocation.

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

VOICE.—I hear a voice you cannot hear,
Which says, I must not stay;
I see a hand you cannot see,
Which beckons me away.

Tickell.—Collin and Lucy, Verse 4.

O, he was gentle, mild, and virtuous.

Shakespeare.—King Richard III. Act I. Scene 2. (Anne to Gloster.)

VOICE.—Her voice was ever soft,
Gentle, and low; an excellent thing in woman.

Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act V. Scene 3. (Lear referring to the Death of Cordelia.)

The people’s voice is odd,
It is, and it is not, the voice of God.

Pope.—To Augustus, Book II. Epi. I. Line 89.