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

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

Mould


No autumn, nor no age, ever approach This heavenly piece, which, Nature having wrought, She lost her needle. Massinger and Field.—Fatal Dowry, Act II. Scene 2.	1
I think Nature hath lost the mould Where she her shape did take; Or else I doubt if Nature could So fair a creature make. Anonymous.—Gilfillan’s Specimens of the less known British Poets, Vol. I. Page 132.	2
There camps his son: of all his following Is none so beauteous: Nature broke the mould In which she cast him. Ariosto.—The Orlando Furioso, Canto X. Stanza 84. (Rose’s Translation.)	3
Nature, despairing e’er to make the like, Brake suddenly the mould in which ’twas fashion’d. Massinger.—The Parliament of Love, Act V. Scene last.	4
Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, And broke the die—in moulding Sheridan. Byron.—Monody on the Death of R. B. Sheridan.	5