Familiar Quotations Part 60

_The Hermit_. Line 5.

Remote from men, with G.o.d he pa.s.sed his days, Prayer all his business, all his pleasure praise.

BARTON BOOTH.

1681-1733.

_Song_.

True as the needle to the pole, Or as the dial to the sun.

MATTHEW GREEN.

1696-1737.

_The Spleen_. Line 93.

Fling but a stone, the giant dies.

JOHN BYROM.

1691-1763.

_'On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini_.[13]

Some say, compared to Bononcini, That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny; Others aver that he to Handel Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange all this difference should be 'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

[Note 13: "Nourse asked me if I had seen the verses upon Handel and Bononcini, not knowing that they were mine." Byrom's Remains (Cheltenham Soc), Vol. I. p 173. The last two lines have been attributed to Switt and Pope. _Vide_ Scott's edition of Swift, and Dyce's edition of Pope.]

_The Astrologer_.

As clear as a whistle.

_Epigram on Two Monopolists_.

Bone and skin, two millers thin, Would starve us all, or near it; But be it known to Skin and Bone That Flesh and Blood can't bear it.

BISHOP BERKELEY.

1684-1753.

_On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America_.

Westward the course of empire takes its way; The four first acts already past, A fifth shall close the drama with the day; Time's n.o.blest offspring is the last.

ROBERT BLAIR.

1699-1746.

_The Grave_. Part ii. Line 586.

The good he scorned, Stalked off reluctant, like an ill-used ghost, Not to return; or if it did, in visits Like those of angels, short and far between.

EDWARD YOUNG.

1681-1765.

NIGHT THOUGHTS.

Night i. Line 1.

Tired Nature's sweet restorer, balmy sleep!