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

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

Liberty


Deep in the frozen regions of the north, A goddess violated brought thee forth, Immortal liberty. Smollett.—Ode to Independence, Line 5.	1
’Tis liberty alone that gives the flower Of fleeting life, its lustre and perfume; And we are weeds without it. Cowper.—The Task, Book V. Line 446.	2
From the vine-cover’d hills and gay valleys of France, See the day-star of liberty rise; Through clouds of detraction unwearied advance, And hold its new course in the skies. Roscoe.—The Metrical Miscellany. (Written in 1788.)	3
Thou gav’st them more than life, Giving what, lost, makes life not worth the keeping. Rogers’s Italy.—Genoa, Line 25.	4
The love of liberty with life is given, And life itself the inferior gift of Heaven. Dryden.—Palemon and Arcite, Book II. Line 291.	5
When liberty is gone, Life grows insipid and has lost its relish. Addison.—Cato, Act II.	6
A day, an hour of virtuous liberty, Is worth a whole eternity of bondage. Addison.—Cato, Act II.	7
I would not my unhoused free condition Put into circumscription and confine For the sea’s worth. Shakespeare.—Othello, Act I. Scene 2. (Othello to Iago.)	8