"And die with decency."
Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 3.
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"And die with decency."
Venice Preserved. Act v. Sc. 3.
View source"What mighty ills have not been done by woman! Who was 't betrayed the Capitol?--A woman! Who lost Mark Antony the world?--A woman! Who was the cause of a long ten years' war, And laid at last old Troy in ashes?--Woman! Destructive, damnable, deceitful woman!"
The Orphan. Act iii. Sc. 1.
View source"Let us embrace, and from this very moment, vow an eternal misery together."
The Orphan. Act iv. Sc. 2.
View source"I knew a very wise man that believed that if a man were permitted to make all the ballads, he need not care who should make the laws of a nation."
Letter to the Marquis of Montrose, the Earl of Rothes, etc.
View source"Then he will talk--good gods! how he will talk!"
Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
View source"Vows with so much passion, swears with so much grace, That 't is a kind of heaven to be deluded by him."
Alexander the Great. Act i. Sc. 3.
View source"When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war."
Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
View source"'T is beauty calls, and glory shows the way."
Alexander the Great. Act iv. Sc. 2.
View source"Man, false man, smiling, destructive man!"
Theodosius. Act iii. Sc. 2.
View source"How fading are the joys we dote upon! Like apparitions seen and gone. But those which soonest take their flight Are the most exquisite and strong,-- Like angels' visits, short and bright; Mortality 's too weak to bear them long."
The Parting.
View source"A man who could make so vile a pun would not scruple to pick a pocket."
The Gentleman's Magazine. Vol. li. Page 324.
View source"Pity 's akin to love."
Oroonoka. Act ii. Sc. 1.
View source"Of the king's creation you may be; but he who makes a count ne'er made a man."
Sir Anthony Love. Act ii. Sc. 1.
View source"The better day, the worse deed."
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
View source"Many a dangerous temptation comes to us in fine gay colours that are but skin-deep."
Commentaries. Genesis iii.
View source"So great was the extremity of his pain and anguish that he did not only sigh but roar."
Commentaries. Job iii.
View source"To their own second thoughts."
Commentaries. Job vi.
View source"He rolls it under his tongue as a sweet morsel."
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvi.
View source"Our creature comforts."
Commentaries. Psalm xxxvii.
View source"None so deaf as those that will not hear."
Commentaries. Psalm lviii.
View source"They that die by famine die by inches."
Commentaries. Psalm lix.
View source"To fish in troubled waters."
Commentaries. Psalm lx.
View source"Here is bread, which strengthens man's heart, and therefore called the staff of life."
Commentaries. Psalm civ.
View source"Hearkners, we say, seldom hear good of themselves."
Commentaries. Ecclesiastes vii.
View source"It was a common saying among the Puritans, "Brown bread and the Gospel is good fare.""
Commentaries. Isaiah xxx.
View source"Blushing is the colour of virtue."
Commentaries. Jeremiah iii.
View source"It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church."
Commentaries. Jeremiah vii.
View source"None so blind as those that will not see."
Commentaries. Jeremiah xx.
View source"Not lost, but gone before."
Commentaries. Matthew ii.
View source"Those that are above business."
Commentaries. Matthew xx.
View source"Saying and doing are two things."
Commentaries. Matthew xxi.
View source"Judas had given them the slip."
Commentaries. Matthew xxii.
View source"After a storm comes a calm."
Commentaries. Acts ix.
View source"Men of polite learning and a liberal education."
Commentaries. Acts x.
View source"It is good news, worthy of all acceptation; and yet not too good to be true."
Commentaries. Timothy i.
View source"It is not fit the public trusts should be lodged in the hands of any, till they are first proved and found fit for the business they are to be entrusted with."
Commentaries. Timothy iii.
View source"It is a maxim with me that no man was ever written out of reputation but by himself."
Monk's Life of Bentley. Page 90.
View source""Whatever is, is not," is the maxim of the anarchist, as often as anything comes across him in the shape of a law which he happens not to like."
Declaration of Rights.
View source"The fortuitous or casual concourse of atoms."
Sermons, vii. Works, Vol. iii. p. 147 (1692).
View source"God save our gracious king! Long live our noble king! God save the king!"
God save the King.
View source"Aldeborontiphoscophornio! Where left you Chrononhotonthologos?"
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
View source"His cogitative faculties immersed In cogibundity of cogitation."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
View source"Let the singing singers With vocal voices, most vociferous, In sweet vociferation out-vociferize Even sound itself."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 1.
View source"To thee, and gentle Rigdom Funnidos, Our gratulations flow in streams unbounded."
Chrononhotonthologos. Act i. Sc. 3.
View source"Go call a coach, and let a coach be called; And let the man who calleth be the caller; And in his calling let him nothing call But "Coach! Coach! Coach! Oh for a coach, ye gods!""
Chrononhotonthologos. Act ii. Sc. 4.
View source"Genteel in personage, Conduct, and equipage; Noble by heritage, Generous and free."
The Contrivances. Act i. Sc. 2.
View source"What a monstrous tail our cat has got!"
The Dragon of Wantley. Act ii. Sc. 1.
View source"Of all the girls that are so smart, There 's none like pretty Sally."
Sally in our Alley.
View source"Of all the days that 's in the week I dearly love but one day, And that 's the day that comes betwixt A Saturday and Monday."
Sally in our Alley.
View source"Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 't will be found, upon examination, The latter has the largest congregation."
The True-Born Englishman. Part i. Line 1.
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