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

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

Sabbath


Hail, Sabbath! thee I hail, the poor man’s day. Grahame.—The Sabbath, Line 40.	1
Sprung from a father who the Sabbath fears. Juvenal.—Translated by Gifford, Sat. XIV. Line 96. (Dr. Ramage, 3.)	2
The Sabbath was made for man, and not man for the Sabbath. St. Mark, Chap. ii. Ver. 27. (Our Lord to the Pharisees.)	3
How still the morning of the hallow’d day! Mute is the voice of rural labour, hush’d The ploughboy’s whistle, and the milkmaid’s song. Grahame.—The Sabbath, Line 1.	4
No place is sacred, not the church is free, E’en Sunday shines no Sabbath-day to me. Pope.—Prol. to Sat. Line 11.	5
O Italy!—thy Sabbaths will be soon Our Sabbaths, closed with mummery and buffoon; Preaching and pranks will share the motley scene, Ours parcell’d out, as thine have ever been, God’s worship and the mountebank between. Cowper.—The Progress of Error, Line 152.	6
Oh, servile Italy! abode of woe! Bark without pilot in a stormy sky! Queen once of fair domains—now fallen low! Dante.—Purgatorio, Canto VI. Line 76. (Wright’s Transl.)	7
Restore to God his due in tithe and time: A tithe purloin’d cankers the whole estate. Sundays observe: think, when the bells do chime, ’Tis angels’ music; therefore come not late. Herbert.—The Temple, Verse 65.	8
Students of every age and kind, beware of secular study on the Lord’s day. Professor Miller.—Of Edinburgh.	9