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Tailoring. Thy clothes are all the soul thou hast.— BEAUMONT AND FLETCHER — Honest Man's Fortune. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 170.
May Moorland weavers boast Pindaric skill, And tailors' lays be longer than their bill! While punctual beaux reward the grateful notes, And pay for poems-when they pay for coats.— BYRON — English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. L. 781.
Great is the Tailor, but not the greatest.— CARLYLE — Essays. Goethe's Works.
Sister, look ye, How, by a new creation of my tailor's I've shook off old mortality.— JOHN FORD — The Fancies Chaste and Noble. Act I. Sc. 3.
A tailor, though a man of upright dealing,- True but for lying, -honest but for stealing, - Did fall one day extremely sick by chance And on the sudden was in wondrous trance.— SIR JOHN HARRINGTON — Of a Precise
Tailor. One commending a Tayler for his dexteritie in his profession, another standing by ratified his opinion, saying tailors had their business at their fingers' ends. HAZLITT Shakespeare Jest Books. Conceits, Clinches, Flashes and Whimzies. No. 93. As if thou e'er wert angry But with thy tailor! and yet that poor shred Can bring more to the making up of a man, Than can be hoped from thee; thou art his creature; And did he not, each morning, new create thee, Thou'dst stink and be forgotten.— MASSINGER — Fatal Dowry. Act III. Sc. 1.
What a fine man Hath your tailor made you!— MASSINGER — City Madam. Act I. Sc. 2.
Yes, if they would thank their maker, And seek no further; but they have new creators, God tailor and god mercer.— MASSINGER — A Very Woman. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 161.
King Stephen was a worthy peere, His breeches cost him but a crowne; He held them sixpence all too deere, Therefore he call'd the taylor lowne.— THOMAS PERCY — Reliques. Take Thy Old Cloak About Thee. St. 7.
Th' embroider'd suit at least he deem'd his prey; That suit an unpaid tailor snatch'd away.— POPE — The Dunciad. Bk. II. L. 117.
Thou art a strange fellow: a tailor make a man? Ay, a tailor, sir; a stone-cutter or a painter could not have made him so ill, though he had been but two hours at the trade.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 61.
Thou villain base, Know'st me not by my clothes? No, nor thy tailor, rascal, Who is thy grandfather: he made those clothes, Which, as it seems, make thee. C.— Shakespeare — Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 80.
Thy gown? why, ay; -come, tailor, let us see't. O mercy, God! what masquing stuff is here? What's this? a sleeve? 'tis like a demi-cannon: What, up and down, carv'd like an appletart? Here's snip and nip and cut and slish and slash, Like to a censer in a barber's shop: Why, what i' devil's name, tailor, call'st thou this!— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew, Act IV. Sc. 3. L. 86.
Teaching. O ye! who teach the ingenious youth of nations, Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain, I pray ye flog them upon all occasions, It mends their morals, never mind the pain.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 1.
'Tis pleasing to be school'd in a strange tongue By female lips and eyes-that is. I mean, When both the teacher and the taught are young, As was the case, at least, where I have been; They smile so when one's right; and when one's wrong They smile still more.— BYRON — Don Juan. Canto II. St. 164.
The sounding jargon of the schools.— COWPER — Truth. L. 367.
There is no teaching until the pupil is brought into the same state or principle in which you are; a transfusion takes place; he is you, and you are he; there is a teaching; and by no unfriendly chance or bad company can he ever quite lose the benefit.— EMERSON — Essays. Of Spiritual Laws.
OCCUPATIONS-TEACHING. 455 Full well they laughed, with counterfeited glee, At all his jokes, for many a joke had he: Full well the busy whisper, circling round, Convey'd the dismal tidings when he frown'd.— GOLDSMITH — Deserted Village. L. 201.
Grave is the Master's look; his forehead wears Thick rows of wrinkles, prints of worrying cares: Uneasy lies the heads of all that rule, His worst of all whose kingdom is a school. Supreme he sits; before the awful frown That binds his brows the boldest eye goes down; Not more submissive Israel heard and saw At Sinai's foot the Giver of the Law.— O. W. HOLMES — The School Boy.
Whilst that the childe is young, let him be instructed in vertue and lytterature.— LYLY — Euphues. The Anatomy of Wit.
Of the Education of Youth. What's all the noisy jargon of the schools?— POMFRET — Reason. A Poem written in 1700. L. 57.
All jargon of the schools.— PRIOR — An Ode on Exodus III. 14. "1
am that I am." I do present you with a man of mine, Cunning in music and the mathematics, To instruct her fully in those sciences.— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 55.
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,— Shakespeare — Taming of the Shrew. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 94.
We'll set thee to school to an ant, to teach thee there's no labouring i' the winter.— Shakespeare — King Lear. Act II. Sc. 4. L. 67.
When I am forgotten, as I shall be, And sleep in dull cold marble, * * * * * * Say, I taught thee.— Shakespeare — Henry VIII. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 433.
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. S.— SWIFT — Cadenus and Vanessa. L. 733.