Chapter WOE to WOMAN of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WOE to WOMAN

WOE.—Gayer insects fluttering by
Ne’er droop the wing o’er those that die,
And lovelier things have mercy shown
To every failing but their own,
And every woe a tear can claim,
Except an erring sister’s shame.

Byron.—The Giaour, Line 418.

The graceful tear that streams for others’ woes.

Akenside.—Pleasures of Imagination, Book I. Line 6.

He scorned his own, who felt another’s woe.

Campbell.—Gertrude of Wyoming, Part I. Verse 24.

Yet, taught by time, my heart has learn’d to glow
For others’ good, and melt at others’ woe.

Pope.—The Odyssey, Book XVIII. Line 269.

What sorrow was, thou bad’st her know,
And from her own, she learn’d to melt at others’ woe.

Gray.—Hymn to Adversity.

He was no sculptured form of woe.

Hemans.—Tale of the 14th Century.

The well-sung woes will soothe my pensive ghost,
He best can paint them who shall feel them most.

Pope.—Eloise to Abelard, last Lines.

The tame spectator of another’s woe.

Hoole’s Metastatio.—Demophoon, Act I. Scene 1.

Woes cluster; rare are solitary woes;
They love a train, they tread each other’s heel.

Young.—Night III. Line 63.

WOLF.—The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together.

Isaiah, Chap. XI. Verse 6.

WOLF.—The lion there did with the lamb consort,
And eke the dove sate by the falcon’s side;
Ne each of other feared fraud or tort,
But did in safe security abide.

Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book IV. Canto 8.

WOMAN.—Seek to be good, but aim not to be great:
A woman’s noblest station is retreat.

Lyttleton.—Advice to a Lady, 1731.

For nothing lovelier can be found
In woman than to study household good,
And good works in her husband to promote.

Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book IX. Line 232.

We hold our greyhound in our hand,
Our falcon on our glove;
But where shall we find leash or band
For dame that loves to rove.