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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

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Quacks.

Out, you impostors!

Quack-salving cheating mountebanks!—your skill

Is to make sound men sick, and sick men kill.

1411

MASSINGER:

Virgin-Martyr,

Act iv., Sc. 1.

Void of all honor, avaricious, rash,

The daring tribe compound their boasted trash—

Tincture of syrup, lotion, drop, or pill:

All tempt the sick to trust the lying bill.

1412

CRABBE:

Borough,

Letter vii., Line 75.

Quakers.

Upright Quakers please both man and God.

1413

POPE:

Dunciad,

Bk. iv., Line 208.

The Quaker loves an ample brim,

A hat that bows to no salaam;

And dear the beaver is to him

As if it never made a dam.

1414

HOOD:

All Round my Hat.

Quarrels.

Beware

Of entrance to a quarrel: but, being in,

Bear 't that the opposed may beware of thee:

1415

SHAKS.:

Hamlet,

Act i., Sc. 3.

They who in quarrels interpose,

Must often wipe a bloody nose.

1416

GAY:

Fables,

Pt. i., Fable 34.

Queen.

She moves a goddess, and she looks a queen.

1417

POPE:

Iliad,

Bk. iii., Line 208.

Quickness.

With too much quickness ever to be taught;

With too much thinking to have common thought.

1418

POPE:

Moral Essays,

Epis. ii., Line 97.

Quiet.

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

1419

BYRON:

Ch. Harold,

Canto iii., St. 42.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

1420

JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL:

The Cathedral.

Quips.

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles,

Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.

1421

MILTON:

L'Allegro,

Line 25.

Quotation.

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

1422

SHAKS.:

M. of Venice,

Act i., Sc. 3.

Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations

By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.

1423

POPE:

E. on Criticism,

Pt. iii., Line 103.

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