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

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

Water


Water turned to wine. St. John, Chap. ii. Verses 3–10.	1
Vidit et erubuit lympha pudica Deum. Crashaw.—Epigrammata Sacra, 1634.	2
Thou water turn’st to wine (fair friend of life); Thy foe, to cross the sweet arts of thy reign, Distils from thence the tears of wrath and strife, And so turns wine to water back again. Crashaw.—Divine Epigram.	3
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed. Boswell’s Johnson, 1778, Chapter LXV. Croker’s edition.	4
Reach with your whiter hands to me, Some crystal of the spring; And I about the cup shall see Fresh lilies flourishing. Or else, sweet nymphs, do you but this, To the glass your lips incline; And I shall see, by that one kiss, The water turn’d to wine. Herrick.—The Hesperides to the Water Nymph, No. 318.	5
Water, water, everywhere, And all the boards did shrink; Water, water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink! Coleridge.—The Ancient Mariner, Part II. Verse 9.	6
Unstable as water thou shalt not excel. Genesis, Chap. xlix. Ver. 4. (Jacob to Reuben.)	7