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Authority: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying.— MILTON — L'Allegro. L. 19.

See now, that radiant bow of pillared fires Spanning the hills like dawn, until they lie In soft tranquillity, And all night's ghastly glooms asunder roll.— D. M. MULOCK — The Aurora on the

Clyde. For night's swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora's harbinger; At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards:— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 379.

The wolves have prey'd: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about, Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey.— Shakespeare — Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 25.

At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phœbus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre.— SPENSER — Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto V. St. 2.

All authority must be out of a man's self, turned * * * either upon an art, or upon a man.— BACON — Natural History. Century X.

Touching emission of immateriate virtues, etc. Authority intoxicates, And makes mere sots of magistrates; The fumes of it invade the brain, And make men giddy, proud, and vain. S.— BUTLER — Miscellaneous Thoughts. L. 283.

And though authority be a stubborn bear, yet he is oft led by the nose with gold.— Shakespeare — A Winter's Tale. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 831.

Shall remain! Hear you this Triton of the minnows? mark you His absolute "shall"? น.— Shakespeare — Coriolanus. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 88.

There is no fettering of authority.— Shakespeare — All's Well That Ends Well. Act II. Sc. 3. L. 248.

Those he commands, move only in command, Nothing in love: now does he feel his title Hang loose about him, like a giant's robe Upon a dwarfish thief.— Shakespeare — Macbeth. Act V. Sc. 2. L. 19.

Thou hast seen a farmer's dog bark at a beggar, And the creature run from the cur: There. There, thou might'st behold the great image of authority; A dog's obeyed in office.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act IV. Sc. 6. L. 159.

Thus can the demi-god Authority Make us pay down for our offense by weight. C.— Shakespeare — Measure for Measure. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 124.

All people said she had authority.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Pt. VI. L. 221.

Authority forgets a dying king, Laid widow'd of the power in his eye That bow'd the will.— TENNYSON — Morte d' Arthur. L. 121.

But see that some one with authority Be near her still.— TENNYSON — The Princess. Pt. VI. L. 219.