And thus he bore without abuse

THE GRAND OLD NAME of gentleman.

1905

Tennyson: In Memoriam. Pt. 110. St. 6

GENTLENESS.

What would you have? Your gentleness shall force

More than your force move us to gentleness.

1906

GEOGRAPHY.

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 7

Geographers, in Afric maps,

With savage pictures fill their gaps,
And o'er unhabitable downs

Place elephants for want of towns.

1907

Swift: On Poetry. A Rhapsody. Line 177,

HOSTS-see Spirits.

Avaunt! and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee!
Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold;

Thou hast no speculation in those eyes,

Which thou dost glare with!

1908

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Thou canst not say, I did it never shake
Thy gory locks at me.

1909

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4.

What man dare, I dare:

Approach thou like the rugged Russian bear,
The arm'd rhinoceros, or the Hyrcan tiger,
Take any shape but that, and my firm nerves
Shall never tremble.

1910

Shaks.: Macbeth. Act iii. Sc. 4

Angels and ministers of grace defend us!

Be thou a spirit of health, or goblin damn'd,

Bring with thee airs from heaven, or blasts from hell,
Be thy intents wicked or charitable,
Thou comest in such a questionable shape
That I will speak to thee.

1911

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 4.

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He shudder'd, as no doubt the bravest cowers
When he can't tell what 'tis that doth appal.
How odd a single hobgoblin's nonentity
Should cause more fear than a whole host's identity.
Byron: Don Juan. Canto xvi. St. 120.
Spirits when they please

1912

Can either sex assume, or both; so soft
And uncompounded is their essence pure.

1913

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. i. Line 423

Some have mistaken blocks and posts,
For spectres, apparitions, ghosts,

With saucer-eyes and horns; and some
Have heard the devil beat a drum.

1914

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 129

Many ghosts, and forms of fright, Have started from their graves to-night;

They have driven sleep from mine eyes away.

1915

Longfellow: Christus. Golden Legend. Pt. iv

That could give more, but that her hand lacks means. Shaks.: As You Like It. Act i. Sc. 2,

1916

She prizes not such trifles as these are:

The gifts she looks from me, are pack'd and lock'd
Up in my heart; which I have given already,

But not deliver❜d.

1917

Shaks.: Wint. Tale. Act iv. Sc. 3

Win her with gifts, if she respect not words:
Dumb jewels often, in their silent kind,

More than quick words, do move a woman's mind.
1918

Shaks.: Two Gent. of V. Act iii. Sc. 1.

To the noble mind,

Rich gifts wax poor, when givers prove unkind.

1919

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 1

He ne'er consider'd it as loth,
To look a gift horse in the mouth,
And very wisely would lay forth
No more upon it than 'twas worth.

1920

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 489.

Saints themselves will sometimes be,
Of gifts that cost them nothing, free.

1921

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto i. Line 495.

A man may be a legal donor

Of anything whereof he's owner.

1922

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 679

This, and in this, my soul I give,

Lodg'd where I know 'twill ever live,

For never could myself or mine

Fall into kinder hands than thine.

1923

Bohn: Ms

GIPSIES.

Gipsies, who every ill can cure,
Except the ill of being poor,

Who charms 'gainst love and agues sell,
Who can in hen-roost set a spell,
Prepar'd by arts, to them best known
To catch ali feet except their own,
Who, as to fortune, can unlock it,
As easily as pick a pocket.

1924

GIRDLE.

Churchill: Ghost. Bk. i. Line 123

A narrow compass! and yet there
Dwelt all that's good, and all that's fair!
Give me but what this ribbon bound,
Take all the rest the sun goes round.
1925

GLOOM.

Waller: On a Girdle

Where glowing embers through the room
Teach light to counterfeit a gloom.

1926

GLORY-see Fame.

Milton: Il Penseroso. Line 79.

When the moon shone we did not see the candle,
So doth the greater glory dim the less.

1927

Shaks.: Mer. of Venice. Act v. Sc. 1.

Glory is like a circle in the water,
Which never ceaseth to enlarge itself,
Till, by broad spreading, it disperse to nought.
1928

Shaks.: 1 Henry VI. Act i. Sc. 2

Glories, like glow-worms, afar off shine bright,
But look'd at near, have neither heat nor light.

1929

Webster: Duchess of Malfi. Act iv. Sc. 2

Th' extremes of glory and of shame,
Like east and west, become the same.
No Indian Prince has to his palace

More followers than a thief to the gallows.

1930

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. ii. Canto i. Line 271

Great conquerors greater glory gain

By foes in triumph led, than slain;

The laurels that adorn their brows,
Are pulled from living, not dead, boughs.
1931

Who pants for glory finds but short repose,
A breath revives him, or a breath o'erthrows.
1932

Butler: Hudibras. Pt. i. Canto ii. Line 1065

Pope: Satire v. Line 300.

Pope: Satire i. Line 67

In moderation placing all my glory,
While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.

1933

Of some for glory such the boundless rage, That they're the blackest scandal of their age. 1934

Young: Love of Fame. Satire iv. Line 65.

To glory some advance a lying claim,
Thieves of renown, and pilferers of fame;
Their front supplies what their ambition lacks :
They know a thousand lords, behind their backs.

1935
Young: Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 87
The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power,
And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave,
Await alike the inevitable hour: -

The paths of glory lead but to the grave. 1936

Gray: Elegy. St. 9

Sound, sound the clarion, fill the fife!
To all the sensual world proclaim,
One crowded hour of glorious life
Is worth an age without a name.
1937
Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun,
And are the playthings of the casual wind.

1938

Scott: Old Mortality. Ch. xxxiv.

Bulwer-Lytton: Richelieu. Act v. Sc. 3.

GLOW-WORM - see Morning.

The glow-worm shows the matin to be near,
And 'gins to pale his uneffectual fire.

1939

Shaks.: Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

Among the crooked lanes, on every hedge,

The glow-worm lights his gem; and through the dark,
A moving radiance twinkles.

1940

GLUTTONY

Thomson: Seasons. Summer. Line 1684.

He's a very valiant trencher-man.

1941

Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits
Make rich the ribs, but bankerout the wits.

1942

Shaks.: Love's L. Lost. Act i. Sc. 1.

Some men are born to feast, and not to fight;
Whose sluggish minds, c'en in fair honor's field,
Still on their dinner turn

Let such pot-boiling varlets stay at home,
And wield a flesh-hook rather than a sword.
1943

Joanna Baillie: Basil. Act i. Sc. 1.

Their various cares in one great point combine,
The business of their lives that is, to dine.

1944

Young: Love of Fame. Satire iii. Line 75.

Swinish gluttony

Ne'er looks to Heav'n amidst his gorgeous feast,

But with besotted, base ingratitude Crams, and blasphemes his Feeder. 1945

GOD -see Deity, Providence.

Milton: Comus. Line 770

He that doth the ravens feed,

Shaks.: As You Like It. Act ii. Sc. 3.

Yea, providently caters for the sparrow. 1946

"Tis heaven alone that is given away,

"Tis only God may be had for the asking.

1947 James Russell Lowell: The Vision of Sir Launfal. God, who oft descends to visit men

Unseen, and through their habitations walks
To mark their doings.
1948

Milton: Par. Lost. Bk. xii. Line 48.

God never made his work for man to mend. 1949 Dryden Epis. to John Dryden. Line 95 All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul. 1950

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 267.

Who sees with equal eye, as God of all,
A hero perish, or a sparrow fall,
Atoms or systems into ruin hurled,
And now a bubble burst, and now a world.
1951

Pope: Essay on Man. Epis. i. Line 87

Thou art, O God, the life and light
Of all this wondrous world we see;
Its glow by day, its smile by night,
Are but reflections caught from Thee:
Where'er we turn, Thy glories shine,
And all things fair and bright are Thine.
1952

Moore: Thou Art, O God

God, from a beautiful necessity, is Love. 1953

GODS.

Tupper: Proverbial Phil. Of Immortality

Immortal gods! I crave no pelf;

I pray for no man, but myself.
Grant I may never prove so fond
To trust man on his oath or bond;
Or a harlot, for her weeping;
Or a dog, that seems a-sleeping;
Or a keeper with my freedom;
Or my friends, if I should need 'em.

1954

Shaks.: Timon of A. Act i. Sc. 2