Chapter WONDER to WORDS of Index by Grocott's Quotations - Alpha

WONDER to WORDS

WONDER.—And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew,
That one small head should carry all he knew.

Goldsmith.—The Deserted Village, Line 215.

WOODEN WALLS.—The Delphic oracle commanded Athens to defend herself behind wooden walls. She did so, and The-mistocles obtained a complete and brilliant victory over the Persians.

Rollin.—Ancient History, Preface, Page xix. (Plutarch in Demosthenes, Page 854.)

About our isle he builds a wall.

Waller.—Of Lady Mary, Princess of Orange.

A wall! like that which Athens had,
By th’ oracle’s advice, of wood.

Waller.—Ibid. last Verse.

WOODMAN.—Forth goes the woodman, leaving unconcern’d
The cheerful haunts of man;
Shaggy, and lean, and shrewd, with pointed ears,
And tail cropp’d short, half lurcher and half cur,
His dog attends him.

Cowper.—The Task, Book V. Line 41.

WORD.—1.

Read! 2. Your word is as good as the bank, sir.

Holcroft.—The Road to Ruin, Act I. Scene 1.

I’ll take thy word for faith, not ask thine oath;
Who shuns not to break one, will sure crack both.

Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act I. Scene 2. (The Prince to Helicanus.) 1. I will not indeed pledge you, like a wicked man, by an oath. 2. You would gain nothing farther at least than by my word.

Buckley’s Sophocles, Œdipus Coloneus, Page 77.

So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow; for down he knocked me, and laid me for dead.

Bunyan.—Pilgrim’s Progress, Part I.

WORD.—And but one word with one of us? Couple it with something. Make it a word and a blow.

Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act III. Scene 1. (Mercutio to Tybalt.)

I’ll take the ghost’s word for a thousand pounds.

Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 2. (To Horatio.)

WORDS.—1. Sir, if you spend word for word with me, I shall make your wit bankrupt. 2. I know it well, sir: you have an exchequer of words.

Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act II. Scene 4. (Thurio to Valentine.)

With some laughing ladies, I presume, whose incessant concussion of words would not let you put in a syllable.