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

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

Contentions


Contentions fierce, Ardent, and dire, spring from no petty cause. Scott.—Peveril of the Peak, Chap. XL., quoting “Albion.”	1
Contention bold, with iron lungs, And Slander with her hundred tongues. Ed. Moore.—Selim the Persian.	2
In this contention, it is difficult to say which party succeeded. Fielding.—Joseph Andrews.	3
Contention is a hydra’s head; the more they strive the more they may: and as Praxiteles did by his glass, when he saw a scurvy face in it, brake it in pieces: but for that one he saw many more as bad in a moment. Burton.—Anat. of Mel., Part II. Sec. 3. Mem. 7.	4
Even as a broken mirror, which the glass In every fragment multiplies, and makes A thousand images of one that was The same, and still the more, the more it breaks. Byron.—Childe Harold, Canto III. Stanza 33, Page 61.	5