Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources / Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them

by Rev. James Wood

Her voice was ever soft, / Gentle, and low—an excellent thing in woman. King Lear, v. 3.

Hercules himself must yield to odds; / And 5 many strokes, though with a little axe, / Hew down and fell the hardest-timber'd oak. 3 Hen. VI., ii. 1.

Here eyes do regard you / In Eternity's stillness; / Here is all fulness, / Ye brave, to reward you. / Work and despair not. Goethe.

Here have we no continuing city, but we seek one to come. St. Paul.

Here have we war for war, and blood for blood, / Controlment for controlment. King John, i. 1.

Here I and sorrows sit; / Here is my throne; bid kings come bow to it. King John, iii. 1.

Here I lay, and thus I bore my point. 1 Hen. 10 IV., ii. 4-.

Here in the body pent, / Absent from Him I roam, / Yet nightly pitch my moving tent / A day's march nearer home. J. Montgomery.

Here lies Johnny Pigeon! / What was his religion, / Wha e'er desires to ken / To some ither warl' / Maun follow the carl, / For here Johnny Pigeon had nane. Burns.

Here lies one whose name was writ in water. Keat's epitaph.