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1

When I am forgotten, as I shall be,
And sleep in dull cold marble,

  • * * *

Say, I taught thee.

Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 433.


2

We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.

King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 67.


Schoolmasters will I keep within my house,
Fit to instruct her youth. * * *

  • * * To cunning men

I will be very kind, and liberal
To mine own children in good bringing up.
Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 94.


I do present you with a man of mine,
Cunning in music and the mathematics,
To instruct her fully in those sciences.
Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 55.


I am not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of
whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead—
ahead of myself as well as of you.
Shaw—Getting Married.


A little bench of heedless bishops here,
And there a chancellor in embryo.
Shenstone—The School Mistress. St. 28.


Whoe'er excels in what we prize,
Appears a hero in our eyes;
Each girl, when pleased with what is taught,
Will have the teacher in her thought.
A blockhead with melodious voice,
In boarding-schools may have his choice.
Sweet—Cademts and Vanessa. L. 733.


Better fed than taught.
John Taylor—Jack a Lent.


Domi habuit unde disceret.
He need not go away from home for instruction.
Terence—Adelphi. III. 3. 60.


Delightful task! to rear the tender Thought,
To teach the young Idea how to shoot.
To pour the fresh Instruction o'er the Mind,
To breathe the enlivening Spirit, and to fix
The generous Purpose in the glowing breast.
Thomson—The Seasons. Spring. L. 1,150.


TEARS

Fons lacrymarum.
Fountains of tears.
Æschylus—Agamemnon. 861. Jeremiah.
DC 1. Sophocles—Antigones. 803.


We weep when we are born,
Not when we die!
T. B. Aldrich—Metempsychosis. Phrase
found in Les Paroles Remarquables, Us Bon
Mots et les Maximes Orientaux. Ed. by
Gallant.. (1694)
 | seealso = (See also {{sc|King Lear)
Dear Lord, though I be changed to senseless
And serve the Potter as he turn his wheel,
I thank Thee for the gracious gift of tears!
T. B. AiimiCH—Two Moods.


Filius istarum lacrymarum.
A child of those tears.
St. Augustine—Confessions. Bk. III. 12.
It cannot be, that a child of those tears (of
mine) shall perish.
Words of his mother when St. Augustine
was influenced by the Manichean Heresy.


And friends, dear friends,—when it shall be
That this low breath is gone from me,
And round my bier ye come to weep,
Let One, most loving of you all,
Say, "Not a tear must o'er her fall;
He giveth His beloved sleep."
E. B. Browning—The Sleep. St. 9.


Thank God for grace,
Ye who weep only! If, as some have done,
Ye grope tear-blinded in a desert place
And touch but tombs,—look up! Those tears
will run
Soon in long rivers down the lifted face,
And leave the vision clear for stars and sun.
E. B. Browning—Tears.


So bright the tear in Beauty's eye,
Love half regrets to kiss it dry.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Bride of Abydos. Canto I. St. 8.


Oh! too convincing—dangerously dear—
In woman's eye the unanswerable tear!
That weapon of her weakness she can wield,
To save, subdue—at once her spear and shield.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Corsair. Canto II. St. 15.


What gem hath dropp'd, and sparkles o'er his
chain?
The tear most sacred, shed for other's pain,
That starts at once—bright pure—from Pity's
mine,
Already polish'd by the hand divine!
 | author = Byron
 | work = Corsair. Canto II. St. 15.
She was a good deal shock'd; not shock'd at tears,
For women shed and use them at their liking;
But there is something when man's eye appears
Wet, still more disagreeable and striking.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Don Juan. Canto V. St. 118.
There is a tear for all who die,
A mourner o'er the humblest grave.
 | author = Byron
 | work = Elegiac Stomas. On the Death of Sir
Peter Parker, Bart.


A stoic of the woods,—a man without a tear.
Campbell—Gertrude of Wyoming. Pt. I. St.
23.


For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.
Campbell—Pleasures of Hope. Pt. I. L. 180.