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

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

Square


To measure wind, and weigh the air, And turn a circle to a square. Butler.—A Satire on the Royal Society, Line 87. Cawthorne.—Wit and Learning, Line 129.	1
Circles to square, and cubes to double, Would give a man excessive trouble. Prior.—Alma, Line 1436.	2
For take thy balance, if thou be so wise, And weigh the wind that under heaven doth blow; Or weigh the light that in the east doth rise; Or weigh the thought that from man’s mind doth flow. Spenser.—Fairy Queen, Book V. Canto II. Stanza 43.	3
Weigh the sun. Tennyson.—Locksley Hall, Verse 93.	4
Whether he measure earth, compute the sea, Weigh sunbeams, carve a fly, or split a flea; The solemn trifler with his boasted skill Toils much, and is a solemn trifler still. Cowper.—Charity, Line 353.	5