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By tracing Heaven his footsteps may be found: Behold! how awfully he walks the round! God is abroad, and wondrous in his ways The rise of empires, and their fall surveys. - Britannia Rediviva (l. 75) [God] The proud he tam'd, the penitent he cheer'd: Nor to rebuke the rich offender fear'd. His preaching much, but more his practice wrought; (A living sermon of the truths he taught:) For this by rules severe his life he squar'd: That all might see the doctrines which they heard. - Character of a Good Parson (l. 75) [Preaching] Keen appetite And quick digestion wait on you and yours. - Cleomenes (act IV, sc. 1) [Appetite] For women with a mischief to their kind, Pervert with bad advice our better mind. - Cock and the Fox (l. 555) [Women] A woman's counsel brought us first to woe, And made her man his paradise forego, Where at heart's ease he liv'd; and might have been As free from sorrow as he was from sin. - Cock and the Fox (l. 557) [Women] I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran. - Conquest of Granada (act I, sc. 1) [Freedom] Forgiveness to the injured does belong, But they ne'er pardon who have done the wrong. - Conquest of Granada (pt. II, act I, sc. 2) [Forgiveness : Proverbs] Old as I am, for ladies' love unfit, The power of beauty I remember yet, Which once inflam'd my soul, and still inspires my wit. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 1) [Beauty] The fool of nature stood with stupid eyes And gaping mouth, that testified surprise. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 107) [Stupidity] Love taught him shame; and shame, with love at strife, Soon taught the sweet civilities of life. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 133) [Love : Shame] She hugg'd the offender, and forgave the offence; Sex to the last. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 367) [Women] She hugged the offender, and forgave the offense, Sex to the last. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 367) [Forgiveness] Mouths without hands; maintained at vast expense, In peace a charge, in war a weak defense: Stout once a month they march, a blustering band, And ever, but in times of need, at hand. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 401) [Soldiers] Then hasten to be drunk, the business of the day. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 407) [Intemperance] When beauty fires the blood, how love exalts the mind! - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 41) [Beauty] Ill fortune seldom comes alone. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 592) [Fortune] He trudg'd along, unknowing what he sought, And whistled as he went, for want of thought. - Cymon and Iphigenia (l. 84) [Thought] This comes of altering fundamental laws and overpersuading by his landlord to take physic (of which he died) for the benefit of the doctor--Stavo bene (was written on his monument) ma per star meglio, sto qui. - Dedication of the Aeneid (XIV, 149) [Epitaphs] Ill writers are usually the sharpest censors. - Dedication of translations from Ovid [Criticism] I trade both with the living and the dead for the enrichment of our native language. - Dedication to translation of The Aeneid [Words] Ay, these look like the workmanship of heaven; This is the porcelain clay of human kind, And therefore cast into these noble moulds. - Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1) [Nobility] Let fortune empty her whole quiver on me. I have a soul that, like an ample shield, Can take in all, and verge enough for more. - Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1) [Fortune] This is the porcelain clay of humankind. - Don Sebastian (act I, sc. 1) [Frailty : Man] Damn'd neuters, in their middle way of steering, Are neither fish, nor flesh, nor good red herring. - Duke of Guise (epilogue, l. 39) [Fish] Damned Neuters, in their Middle way of Steering, Are neither Fish, nor Flesh, nor good Red Herring. - Duke of Guise--Epilogue [Politics] Displaying page 16 of 21 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 [16] 17 18 19 20 21
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