135 INDEX-LEARNING-IRRATIONALLY HELD TRUTHS. "Index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail." POPE. The Dunciad, Bk. I., line 279. Industry is a loadstone to draw all good things." "Infantine Art, divinely Artless." R. BROWNING. Red Cotton Nightcap Country, II. "Infirm of purpose! Give me the daggers.' SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth (Lady Macbeth), Act II., Sc. II. "(For when the noble Cæsar saw him stab,) Ingratitude, more strong than traitor's arms, Quite vanquish'd him: then burst his mighty heart." SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cæsar (Antony), Act III., Sc. II. 'Injuries are writ in brass, kind Graccho, And not to be forgotten." MASSINGER. The Duke of Miian (Francisco), "Innocence and youth should ever be unsuspicious." LANDOR. Imaginary Conversations, Beniowski and "Innocence is as an armed heel To trample accusation." SHELLEY. The Cenci (Beatrice), Act IV., Sc. IV. "Innocence is strong, And an entire simplicity of mind A thing most sacred in the eye of Heaven." WORDSWORTH. The Excursion, No. 6. "Inquisitiveness as seldom cures jealousy, as drinking in a fever quenches the thirst." WYCHERLEY. Love in a Wood (Valentine), Act IV., Sc. V. "Intellect can raise, From airy words alone, a Pile that ne'er decays." 66 WORDSWORTH. Inscriptions, IV. Integrity of Life is fame's best friend, JOHN WEBSTER. The Duchess of Malfi (Delia), Act V., "Into the truth of things Sc. V. Out of their falseness rise, and reach thou, and remain." R. BROWNING. Fifine at the Fair, LXIII. "Instinct is a great matter: I was a coward on instinct." SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. I. (Falstaff), Act II., Sc. IV. 66 Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors." HUXLEY. Science and Culture, The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species. IS NAKED TRUTH-IT HAS COME ABOUT. 131 TENNYSON, Harold, Act III., Sc. II. Is naked Truth actable in naked life?" Is not every meanest day, the confluence of two Eternities?" CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. VI., Ch. I. "Is not God's Universe within our head, whether there be a torn skullcap or a king's diadem without? CARLYLE. Essay (from Foreign Review) on Jean "Is not Sentimentalism twin-sister to Cant, if not one and the same with it?" CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. II., Ch. VII. "Is Saul also among the prophets?" SAMUEL. Bk. I., Ch. X., ver. 11. "Is there no bright reversion in the sky POPE. Elegy to the Memory of an Unfortunate Lady. "Is there on earth a space so dear, As that within the blessed sphere Two loving arms entwine?' "Is there whom you detest, and seek his life? Trust no soul with the secret-but his wife." T. MOORE. To Fanny. YOUNG. Love of Fame, Sat. VI., line 389. "Is this a dagger which I see before me, The handle toward my hand? Come, let me clutch thee." SHAKESPEARE. Macbeth (Macbeth), Act II., Sc. I. "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this great thing?" BOOK OF KINGS. Bk. II., Ch. VIII., ver. 13. "It argues a distemper'd head, So soon to bid good-morrow to thy bed: SHAKESPEARE. Romeo and Juliet (Friar Lawrence), "It costs more to revenge injuries than to bear them." BISHOP T. WILSON. Maxims, 303. "It follows not, because The hair is rough, the dog's a savage one." SHERIDAN KNOWLES. The Daughter (Norris), Act I., Sc. I. "It has come about that now, to many a Royal Society, the creation of a world is little more mysterious than the cooking of a dumpling." CARLYLE. Sartor Resartus, Bk. I., Ch. I. 132 IT IS A CUSTOM-IT IS AS NATURALL. "It is a custom More honoured in the breach than the observance." SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Hamlet), Act I., Sc. IV. "It is a flaw In happiness, to see beyond our bourn, It forces us in summer skies to mourn, It spoils the singing of the nightingale.' KEATS. Reminiscence of Claude's Enchanted Castle. "It is a greater grief To bear love's wrong, than hate's known injury." SHAKESPEARE. Sonnet, XL. "It is a kindness to lead the sober; a duty to lead the drunk." LANDOR. Imaginary Conversations, Don Victor Naez and El Rey, Nelto. "It is a nipping and an eager air." SHAKESPEARE. Hamlet (Horatio), Act I., Sc. IV. "It is a very good world to live in, To lend, or to spend, or to give in; * EARL OF ROCHESTER. * Vide-Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, p. 235. "It is a wise father that knows his own child." SHAKESPEARE. The Merchant of Venice (Launcelot), "It is always safe to learn, even from our enemies-seldom safe to venture to instruct, even our friends." COLTON. Lacon, CCLXXXVI. "It is an ill wind that turns none to good." TUSSER. Five Hundred Points of Good Husbandry. "No winde but it doth turn some man to good." Quoted by MALONE from Willm. Bulleyn. A Dialogue both pleasant and pietifull. "The ill wind which blows no man to good." SHAKESPEARE. Henry IV., Pt. II. (Pistol,) "Ill blows the wind, that profits nobody." SHAKESPEARE. Henry VI., Pt. III. (Son), Act II., Sc. V. ""Tis an ill wind that blows no man to profit." UNKNOWN. A Merry Knack to Know a Knave (Coneycatcher). "It is as naturall to die as to be borne; and to a little infant, perhaps, the one is as painfull as the other.' BACON. Essay II., Of Death. IT IS BEAUTIFUL-IT IS NOT POETRY. It is beautiful only to do the thing we are meant for." 133 CLOUGH. The Bothie of Tober-na-Vuolich, IX. "It is better that some should be unhappy, than that none should be happy, which would be the case in a general state of equality." BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's Ed., Vol. II., p. 116. "It is better to dwell in the corner of the housetop, Than with a contentious woman in a wide house." PROVERBS. Ch. XXI., ver. 9. "It is better to live rich than to die rich." BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's "It is costly wisdom that is bought by experience." "It is deep happiness to die, ROGER ASCHAM. The Schoolmaster. Yet live in Love's dear memory." L. E. L. The Improvisatrice. SHAKESPEARE. Measure for Measure (Isabella), "It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a "It is jealousy's peculiar nature, To swell small things to great, nay, out of nought To conjure much; and then to lose its reason Amid the hideous phantoms it has form'd." ED. YOUNG. The Revenge (Zanga), Act III., Sc. I. "It is mere cowardice to seek safety in negations. No character becomes strong in that way." GEORGE ELIOT. The Mill on the Floss (Philip Wakem), Bk. V., Ch. III. "It is more blessed to give than to receive." ACTS OF THE APOSTLES. Ch. XX., ver. 35. "It is nat gode a sleping hounde to wake." CHAUCER. Troilus and Cresseide, Boke III., line 764. "It is evil waking of a sleeping dogge." J. HEYWOOD. Proverbs, Bk. I., Ch. X. "It is not explanations which survive, but the things which are explained; not theories, but the things about which we theorise." A. J. BALFOUR. The Foundations of Belief, last paragraph. "It is not necessary to be drunk one's self, to relish the wit of drunkenness." BOSWELL. Life of Johnson (Dr. Johnson), Fitzgerald's It is not poetry, but prose run mad." POPE. Prologue to the Satires, line 188. 134 IT IS NOT THE GREAT-IT IS THE MIND'S. "It is not the great that are wise." JOB. Ch. XXXII., ver. 9. "It is not thy works, which are all mortal, infinitely little, and the greatest no greater than the least; but only the spirit thou workest in, that can have worth or continuance.' CARLYLE. French Revolution, Pt. I., Bk. I., Ch. IV. "It is one thing to shew a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth." LOCKE. Essay on the Human Understanding, Bk. IV., "It is only to the happy that tears are a luxury." MOORE. Lalla Rookh, Prologue, VI. "It is seldom that the miserable can help regarding their misery as a wrong inflicted by those who are less miserable." GEORGE ELIOT. Silas Marner, Ch. XII. "It is time to fear when tyrants seem to kiss." SHAKESPEARE. Pericles (Pericles), Act I., Sc. II. "It is the bright day, that brings forth the adder; And that craves wary walking." SHAKESPEARE. Julius Cæsar (Brutus), Act II., Sc. I. "It is the curse of kings to be attended By slaves that take their humours for a warrant To understand a law; to know the meaning Of dangerous majesty, when perchance it frowns More upon humour than advis'd respect." SHAKESPEARL. King John (John), Act IV., Sc. II. "It is the customary fate of new truths, to begin as heresies, and to end as superstitions." HUXLEY. Science and Culture, The Coming of Age of the Origin of Species. "It is the folly of the world constantly which confounds its wisdom." O. W. HOLMES. The Professor at the Breakfast Table, I. "It is the mind that maketh good or ill, The Building of the Ship. That maketh wretch or happie, rich or poore." SPENSER. Faerie Queene, Bk. VI., Can. IX., St. 30. "'Tis the mind that makes the body rich." Act IV., Sc. III. "It is the mind's for ever bright attire, DYER. To Mr. Savage. |