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Dew: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Let me say amen" betimes, lest the devil cross my prayer.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 22.

Nay, then, let the devil wear black, for I'll have a suit of sables.— Shakespeare — Hamlet. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 136.

The lunatic, the lover and the poet, Are of imagination all compact: One sees more devils than vast hell can hold.— Shakespeare — Midsummer Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 7.

The prince of darkness is a gentleman.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 147.

This is a devil, and no monster; I will leave him; I have no long spoon.— Shakespeare — The Tempest. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 101.

What, man! defy the devil: consider, he's an enemy to mankind.— Shakespeare — Twelfth Night. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 107.

From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the world, And see how his stock went on.— SOUTHEY — The Devil's Walk. St. 1.

The Satanic school.— S. SOUTHEY — Vision of Judgment.

Original Preface. III. The prince of darkness is a gentleman.— SIR JOHN SUCKLING — The Goblins. Song. Act III.

The bane of all that dread the Devil!— WORDSWORTH — The Idiot Boy. St. 67.

The Dewdrop slips into the shining sea!— EDWIN ARNOLD — Light of Asia. Bk. VIII. Last Line.

Dewdrops, Nature's tears, which she Sheds in her own breast for the fair which die. The sun insists on gladness; but at night, When he is gone, poor Nature loves to weep.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Water and Wood.

Midnight. The dew, 'Tis of the tears which stars weep, sweet with joy.— BAILEY — Festus. Sc. Another and a

Better World. Within the rose I found a trembling tear, Close curtained in a gloom of crimson night By tender petals from the outer light.— BOYESEN — Within the Rose I Found a

Trembling Tear. The dews of the evening most carefully shun; Those tears of the sky for the loss of the sun.— EARL OF CHESTERFIELD — Advice to a

Lady in Autumn. Dew-drops are the gems of morning, But the tears of mournful eve!— COLERIDGE — Youth and Age.

The dew-bead Gem of earth and sky begotten. C.— GEORGE ELIOT — The Spanish Gypsy. Song. Bk. I.

Every dew-drop and rain-drop had a whole heaven within it.— LONGFELLOW — Hyperion. Bk. III. Ch. VII.

Or stars of morning, dew-drops which the sun Impearls on every leaf and every flower.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 746.

The dew-drops in the breeze of morn, Trembling and sparkling on the thorn, Falls to the ground, escapes the eye, Yet mounts on sunbeams to the sky.— MONTGOMERY — A Recollection of

Mary F. I must go seek some dewdrops here, And hang a pearl in every cowslip's ear. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 14. And every dew-drop paints a bow.— TENNYSON — In Memoriam. Pt. CXXII.