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

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

Oak


Thou wast a bauble once, a cup and ball, Which babes might play with. Cowper.—Yardley Oak, Line 17.	1
The oak, when living, monarch of the wood; The English oak which, dead, commands the flood. Churchill.—Gotham, Book I. Line 303.	2
A sturdy oak, which nature forms To brave a hundred winters’ storms, While round its head the whirlwinds blow, Remains with root infix’d below: When fell’d to earth, a ship it sails Through dashing waves and driving gales And now at sea, again defies The threat’ning clouds and howling skies. Hoole’s Metastatio, Adrian in Syria, Act I. Scene 3.	3
The monarch oak, the patriarch of the trees, Shoots rising up, and spreads by slow degrees: Three centuries he grows, and three he stays Supreme in state; and in three more decays. Dryden.—Palamon and Arcite, Line 1058.	4