Shakspere. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Shakspere


He was not of an age, but for all time! Sweet swan of Avon! Ben Jonson.—Underwoods. To the Memory of Shakespeare.	1
What needs my Shakespeare for his honour’d bones, The labour of an age in piled stones? Milton.—On Shakespeare, 1630.	2
Each change of many-colour’d life he drew, Exhausted worlds, and then imagined new: Existence saw him spurn her bounded reign, And panting Time toil’d after him in vain. Dr. Johnson.—Prologue 1747, Line 3, at the opening of Drury Lane.	3
And he, the man whom Nature’s self had made To mock herself, and Truth to imitate. Spenser.—Tears of the Muses, Line 205.	4
Nature listening stood, whilst Shakespeare play’d, And wonder’d at the work herself had made. Churchill.—The Author.	5
Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy’s child, Warble his native wood-notes wild. Milton.—L’Allegro, Line 133.	6
Thou, in our wonder and astonishment, Hast built thyself a livelong monument. Milton.—On Shakespeare, 1630.	7
Ay, that d——d Shakespeare! I hear the fellow was nothing but a deer-stealer in Warwickshire. If he had sold the venison, there would have been some sense in that; he would have made money by it; a better trade than writing plays——What right had my son to read Shakespeare; I never read Shakespeare. Murphy.—The Apprentice, Act I. Scene 1.	8