Listening Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Listening


But yet she listen’d—’tis enough— Who listens once will listen twice; Her heart, be sure, is not of ice, And one refusal no rebuff. Byron—Mazeppa. St. 6.	1
He holds him with his glittering eye— * * * * * * And listens like a three years’ child. Coleridge—The Ancient Mariner. Pt. I. St. 4. Last line claimed by Wordsworth. See note to his We are Seven.	2
Listen, every one That listen may, unto a tale That’s merrier than the nightingale. Longfellow—Tales of a Wayside Inn. Pt. III. The Sicilian’s Tale. Interlude Before the Monk of Casal-Maggiore.	3
In listening mood she seemed to stand, The guardian Naiad of the strand. Scott—The Lady of the Lake. Canto I. St. 17.	4
And this cuff was but to knock at your ear, and beseech listening. Taming of the Shrew. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 66.	5