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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
| Change |
| The ever whirling wheel Of change. Spenser.—On Mutability, Canto VI. Line 1. | 1 |
| Change but the name, of thee the tale is told. Horace.—Sat. I. Book I. Line 89. (Francis.) | 2 |
| Can the Ethiopian change his skin, or the leopard his spots? Jeremiah, Chap. xiii. Ver. 23. | 3 |
| Whate’er the passion, knowledge, fame, or pelf, Not one will change his neighbour with himself. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. II. Line 261. | 4 |
| Where yet was ever found a mother Who’d give her booby for another? Gay.—Fable III. Line 33. | 5 |
| A change came o’er the spirit of my dream. Byron.—The Dream, Line 75. | 6 |
| Fear of change Perplexes monarchs. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. | 7 |
| No:—Let the eagle change his plume, The leaf its hue, the flower its bloom; But ties around his heart were spun, That could not, would not, be undone! Campbell.—O’Connor’s Child. | 8 |
| The French and we still change, but here’s the curse, They change for better, and we change for worse. Dryden.—Prologue to the Spanish Friar. | 9 |
| Nothing is thought rare Which is not new and followed; yet we know That what was worn some twenty years ago Comes into grace again. Beaumont and Fletcher.—Prologue to the Noble Gentleman, Line 4. | 10 |
| Alas! in truth, the man but chang’d his mind, Perhaps was sick, in love, or had not dined. Pope.—Moral Essays, Epi. I. To Sir R. Temple, Line 127. | 11 |
| How chang’d, alas, from what it once had been! ’Tis now degraded to a public inn. Gay.—A True Story. | 12 |
| The hearts Of all his people shall revolt from him, And kiss the lips of unacquainted change. Shakespeare.—King John, Act III. Scene 4. (Pandulph to Lewis.) | 13 |
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