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

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

Cradle


All that lies betwixt the cradle and the grave, is uncertain. Seneca.—Of a Happy Life, Chap. XXII.	1
From the maternal tomb, To the grave’s faithful womb. Cowley.—Life.	2
From the cradle to the tomb, Not all gladness, not all gloom. Anonymous.	3
To the coffin, from the cradle. Prior.—Moral to “The Ladle.”	4
Hard-travell’d from the cradle to the grave. Young.—Night VI. Line 221.	5
A little rule, a little sway, A sunbeam in a winter’s day, Is all the proud and mighty have Between the cradle and the grave. Dyer.—Grongar Hill, Line 89.	6
The hearts within thy valleys bred, The fiery souls that might have led Thy sons to deeds sublime, Now crawl from cradle to the grave, Slaves—nay the bondmen of a slave, And callous, save to crime. Byron.—The Giaour.	7
Most wretched men Are cradled into poetry by wrong, They learn in suffering what they teach in song. Shelley.—Julian and Maddalo.	8
Scourged by the winds and cradled on the rock. Campbell.—The Pleasures of Hope, Part I.	9