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

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

Children


Unruly children make their sire stoop. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act III. Scene 4. (The Gardener to his Assistants.)	1
The pleasure that some fathers feed upon Is my strict fast,—I mean my children’s looks. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act II. Scene 1. (Old Gaunt to Richard.)	2
As children gathering pebbles on the shore. Milton.—Paradise Regained, Book IV.	3
[“A remarkable anticipation,” says the Rev. Geo. Gilfillan, “of Newton’s famous saying, ‘I do not know what I may appear to the world; but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the seashore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.’”—Newton’s Life.]	4
Newton, (that proverb of the mind,) alas! Declared, with all his grand discoveries recent, That he himself felt only “like a youth Picking up shells by the great ocean—Truth.” Byron.—Don Juan, Canto VII. Verse 5, Line 5.	5
When I look on my boys They renew all my joys, Myself in my children I see; While the comforts I find In the kingdom my mind, Pronounce that my kingdom is free. Lloyd.—Song in the Capricious Lovers, Air 2.	6
By sports like these are all their cares beguil’d; The sports of children satisfy the child. Goldsmith.—The Traveller.	7
A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo. Shenstone.—The Schoolmistress, Stanza 28.	8