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

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

Comparisons


One fairer than my love! the all-seeing sun Ne’er saw her match, since first the world begun. Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Romeo to Benvolio.)	1
Compare her face with some that I shall show, And it will make thee think thy swan a crow. Shakespeare.—Romeo and Juliet, Act I. Scene 2. (Benvolio to Romeo.)	2
To seek through the regions of the earth For one his like, there would be something failing In him that should compare. Shakespeare.—Cymbeline, Act I. Scene 1.	3
To me he seems like diamond to glass. Shakespeare.—Pericles, Act II. Scene 3. (Thaisa to Pericles.)	4
Thou are an eagle to a wren. Wolcot.—Ode I., To the Academicians, Verse 8, 1782.	5
No caparisons, miss, if you please, Caparisons don’t become a young woman. Sheridan.—The Rivals, Act IV. Scene 2.	6
Comparisons are odorous. Shakespeare.—Much Ado About Nothing, Act III. Scene 5. (Dogberry.)	7
1. By heavens, a most edible coparisó. 2. Odious thou would’st say; for coparisós are odious. Anonymous.—Sir Giles Goosecappe, an old Comedy of 1606.	8
Leave her, and I will leave comparing thus; She and comparisons are odious. Dr. Donne.—The Comparison.	9
Comparisons are odious. Burton.—Anat. of Mel., Part III. Section III. Mem. 1. sub. 2; George Herbert.—Jacula Prudentum. Heywood.—A Woman Kill’d with Kindness, Act I. Scene 1.	10
To liken them to your auld-warld squad, I must needs say comparisons are odd. Burns.—Brigs of Ayr.	11