Could great men thunder As Jove himself does, Jove would ne'er be quiet, For every pelting, petty officer Would use his heaven for thunder; nothing but thunder. 2014 Shaks.: M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2 Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them, But in the less, foul profanation. That in the captain's but a choleric word, 2015 Shaks.: M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2 Heaven knows, I had no such intent; But that necessity so bow'd the state, That I and greatness were compell'd to kiss. 2016 Small curs are not regarded when they grin; But great men tremble when the lion roars. Shaks.: 2 Henry IV. Act iii. Sc. 1. 2017 Shaks.: 2 Henry VI. Act iii. Sc. 1. 'Tis certain, greatness, once fallen out with fortune, Must fall out with men too. What the declined is, He shall as soon read in the eyes of others, As feel in his own fall; for men, like butterflies, Show not their mealy wings but to the summer. 2018 Why, man, he doth bestride the narrow world Like a Colossus; and we petty men Walk under his huge legs, and peep about To find ourselves dishonorable graves. 2019 Shaks.: Troil. and Cress. Act iil. Sc. 3. Shaks.: Jul. Cæsar. Act i. Sc. 2. 2020 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4. The mightier man, the mightier is the thing Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 1004 No great deed is done 2022 George Eliot: The Spanish Gypsy. Bk. i A brave man struggling in the storms of fate, 2025 Pope: Prologue to Addison's Cato. Line 21. Teach me, like thee, in various nature wise, Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. iv. Line 377. 'Tis a proud mendicant; it boasts, and begs; It begs an alms of homage from the throng, And oft the throng denies its charity. 2027 Young: Night Thoughts. Night vi. Line 287. He, who ascends to mountain-tops shall find Their loftiest peaks most wrapt in clouds of snow; 2028 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto iii. St. 45. James Russell Lowell: Sonnet vi. 2029 In joys, in grief, in triumphs, in retreat, Great always, without aiming to be great. 2030 Roscommon: Dr. Chetwood to the Earl. Line 67. Great hearts have largest room to bless the small; Strong natures give the weaker home and rest. 2031 Lucy Larcom: Sonnet. The Presence. 2032 GREECE. Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 29. The mountains look on Marathon And Marathon looks on the sea; And musing there an hour alone, I dream'd that Greece might still be free. 2033 Byron: Don Juan. Canto iii. St. 86. Clime of the unforgotten brave! Whose land, from plain to mountain-cave, That this is all remains of thee? 2034 Byron: Giaour. Line 113 Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! 2035 Byron: Ch. Harold. Canto ii. St. 73 GREEDINESS -see Gluttony. Those that much covet are with gain so fond, That what they have not, that which they possess, And so, by hoping more, they have but less; Is but to surfeit, and such griefs sustain, That they prove bankrupt in this poor-rich gain. 2036 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 134. GRIEF see Consolation, Sorrow, Tears, Weeping. A heavier task could not have been impos'd, 2040 Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1. Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows, 2041 Shaks.: Richard II. Act ii. Sc. 2 Of comfort no man speak: Let's talk of graves, of worms, and epitaphs; Make dust our paper, and with rainy eyes Write sorrow on the bosom of the earth. 2042 : Shaks. Richard II. Act iii. Sc. 2. And these external manners of laments 2043 Shaks.: Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1 The tempest in my mind Doth from my senses take all feeling else, 2044 Shaks.: King Lear. Act iii. Sc. 4. Sorrow, like a heavy-hanging bell, Once set on ringing, with his own weight goes; Then little strength rings out the doleful knell. 2045 Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 1493. Shaks.: Rom. and Jul. Act iii. Sc. 5. Some grief shows much of love, But much of grief shows still some want of wit. 2046 You see me here, you gods, a poor old man, As full of grief as age; wretched in both! 2047 Shaks.: King Lear. Act ii. Sc. 4. Why, let the stricken deer go weep, The hart ungalled play: For some must watch, while some must sleep; So runs the world away. 2048 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2 What is he, whose grief Bears such an emphasis? whose phrase of sorrow 2049 Shaks.: Hamlet. Act v. Sc. 1 Shaks.: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. When remedies are past, the griefs are ended. 2050 Shaks.: Othello. Act i. Sc. 3. The robb'd that smiles, steals something from the thief; He robs himself, that spends a bootless grief. 2051 Grief hath two tongues; and never woman yet Could rule them both without ten women's wit. 2052 Shaks.: Venus and A. Line 1007. She shook The holy water from her heavenly eyes, And clamor moisten'd: - then away she started Shaks.: King Lear. Act iv. Sc. 3. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? 2054 Milton: Comus. Line 362 O brothers! let us leave the shame and sin Mrs. Browning: Sonnets. Exaggeration Grief is a tattered tent Wherethrough God's light doth shine. Good is that darkening of our lives, 2057 Lucy Larcom: Hints. Frederick William Faber: Deep Grief. St. 15 Who fails to grieve, when just occasion calls, 2058 Young: Night Thoughts. Night ix. Line 501. Byron: Manfred. Act i. Sc. 1. No words suffice the secret soul to show, And Truth denies all eloquence to Woe. 2060 Byron: Corsair. Canto iii. St. 22. Upon her face there was the tint of grief, As if its lid were charged with unshed tears. There comes Byron: Dream. St. 5. For ever something between us and what 2062 Byron: Sardanapalus. Act i. Sc. 2. Alas! the breast that inly bleeds, Hath nought to dread from outward blow: 2063 Byron Giaour. Line 1165 No future hour can rend my heart like this, If I can catch him once upon the hip, I will feed fat the ancient grudge I bear him. 2066 Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act i. Sc. 3 |