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

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

Dog


Every dog must have his day. Swift.—Whig and Tory.	1
Dogs, ye have had your day. Pope.—The Odyssey, Book XXII. Line 41.	2
Let Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew, and dog will have his day. Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act V. Scene 1. (The Prince to his Uncle.)	3
I had rather be a dog, and bay the moon. Shakespeare.—Julius Cæsar, Act IV. Scene 3. (Brutus to Cassius.)	4
Nor dare they bark, though much provoked at her refulgent visage. Swift.—Battle of the Books. (Episode of Bentley and Wotton.)	5
Doth the moon care for the barking of a dog? Burton.—Anat. of Mel., Part II. Sect. III. Mem. 7.	6
I am his Highness’s dog at Kew! Pray tell me, sir, whose dog are you? Pope.—On the Collar of a Dog he gave to the Prince.	7
The watch-dog’s voice that bay’d the whispering wind, And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind. Goldsmith.—Deserted Village, Line 121.	8
Thou dog in forehead, but in heart a deer. Homer.—The Iliad, Book I. Line 298. (Pope.)	9
Having the countenance of a dog, but heart of a stag. Homer.—The Iliad, Book I. (Riley’s translat.), Page 9.	10