Reference > Quotations > Grocott & Ward, comps. > Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.
  PREVIOUSNEXT  
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
Grocott & Ward, comps.  Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed.  189-?.
 
Gentleman
 
When Adam dolve and Eve span,
Who was then a Gentleman?
        Pegge.—Curialia Miscellanea, 173.		  1
The Prince of Darkness.
        Shakespeare.—King Lear, Act III. Scene 4. (Edgar and Gloster.)		  2
The grand old name of gentleman,
Defamed by every charlatan,
And soil’d with all ignoble use.
        Tennyson.—In Memoriam, CX. Verse 6.		  3
 
 
CONTENTS · BIBLIOGRAPHIC RECORD
  PREVIOUSNEXT  
 
Loading
Click here to shop the Bartleby Bookstore.
Shakespeare · Bible · Saints · Anatomy · Harvard Classics · Lit. History · Quotations · Poetry
© 1993–2013 Bartleby.com · [Top 150]