I praise Thee while my days go on; I love Thee while my days go on: Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost, I thank Thee while my days go on. Down some deep well, and hears it fall 1998 Mrs. Browning: De Profundis. Sts. 23 and 24 GRAVE - see Churchyard, Death, Funeral, Sexton. An old man, broken with the storms of state, Is come to lay his weary bones among ye, Give him a little earth for charity. 1999 Shaks.: Henry VIII. Act iv. Sc. 2. One destin'd period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, Lansdowne: On Death Grass grows at last above all graves, you say? 2001 Julia C. R. Dorr: Grass-Grown. Men shiver when thou'rt named: Nature appall'd, 2002 Blair: The Grave. Line 9 Here all the mighty troublers of the earth, Thinn'd states of half their people, and gave up 2003 Blair: The Grave. Line 208 When self-esteem, or others' adulation, Would cunningly persuade us we were something The grave gainsays the smooth complexion'd flattery, Blair: The Grave. Line 232 Here the o'erloaded slave flings down his burden Mocks his short arm, and, quick as thought, escapes 2005 Blair: The Grave. Line 501 Where is the house for all the living found? Go ask the deaf, the dumb, the dead; All answer, without voice or sound, Each resting in his bed; Look down and see, A place for thee; 2008 James Montgomery: In Mem. of the Rev. James Harvey. I like that ancient Saxon phrase which calls The burial-ground, God's Acre! It is just; It consecrates each grave within its walls, Into its furrows shall we all be cast, In the sure faith, that we shall rise again At the great harvest, when the archangel's blast Shall winnow, like a fan, the chaff and grain. 2009 Longfellow: God's Acre. Art is long, and Time is fleeting, 2010 Longfellow: Psalm of Life. The most magnificent and costly dome, No spot on earth but has supplied a grave, 2011 Young: Poem on the Last Day. Bk. ii. Line 87 Yours be the care! 2012 Robert Browning: La Saisiaz. Prologue GREATNESS- see Ambition, Authority, Farewell, Honor. Some are born great, some achieve greatness, And some have greatness thrust upon them. 2013 Shaks.: Tw. Night. Act ii. Sc. 5 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. Great men may jest with saints: 'tis wit in them, That in the captain's but a choleric word, Which in the soldier is flat blasphemy. 2015 Shaks.: M. for M. Act ii. Sc. 2 Heaven knows, I had no such intent; But that necessity so bow'd the state, 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. Rightly to be great, Is, not to stir without great argument, 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; Must look down on the hate of those below. Tho' high above the sun of glory glow, 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. Are not great Men the models of nations? 2032 Owen Meredith: Lucile. Pt. ii. Canto vi. St. 29. GREECE. 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 ii. 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, Shaks.: R. of Lucrece. Line 134. GRIEF - see Consolation, Sorrow, Tears, Weeping. Every one can master a grief but he that has it. 2037 Shaks.: Much Ado. Act iii. Sc. 2. A heavier task could not have been impos'd, Shaks.: Com. of Errors. Act i. Sc. 1. 2040 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 My grief lies all within; And these external manners of laments 2043 Shaks.: Richard II. Act iv. Sc. 1 |