Noon. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Noon


The insect youth are on the wing, Eager to taste the honied spring, And float amid the liquid noon. Gray.—Ode on the Spring, Stan. III. Line 5.	1
Swim through the serene summer sky. Buckley’s Virgil.—Georgics, Book IV. Line 66.	2
O lovely babe! what lustre shall adorn Thy noon of beauty, when so bright thy morn! Broome.—Birth-day of Trefusis.	3
But ere the noon of day, in fiery gleams, He darts the glory of his blazing beams. Broome.—Chap. xliii. of Ecclesiasticus.	4
When to the noon of life we rise, The man grows elegant in vice. Broome.—Melancholy.	5
Borrow Cynthia’s silver white, When she shines at noon of night, Free from clouds to veil her light. Hughes.—The Picture.	6
He chased the hornet in his mid-day flight, And brought her glow-worms in the noon of night. Tickell.—Kensington Garden.	7
About the noon of night. Ben Jonson.—Sejanus, Act V. Scene 6.	8
It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. Dante.—Purgatorio, Canto XV. Line 5. (Wright’s Translation.)	9