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

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

Fire


Behold, how great a matter a little fire kindleth! St. James, Gen. Ep. Chap. iii. Ver. 5.	1
Fire that’s closest kept burns most of all. Shakespeare.—Two Gentlemen of Verona, Act I. Scene 2. (Lucetta.)	2
As from one fatal spark arise The flames, aspiring to the skies, And all the crackling wood consumes. Wheelwright’s Pindar.—3rd Pythian Ode. Line 66.	3
A spark neglected makes a mighty fire. Herrick.—Hesperides, Aphorisms, No. 152. Shakespeare.—King Henry VI., Part III. Act IV. Scene 8. (Clifford to Warwick.)	4
From little spark may burst a mighty flame. Dante.—Paradiso, Canto I. Line 34. (Wright.)	5
From small fires comes oft no small mishap. George Herbert.—The Temple Artillery.	6
Fire in each eye, and papers in each hand, They rave, recite, and madden round the land. Pope.—Prologue to Satires.	7
And where two raging fires meet together, They do consume the thing that feeds their fury. Shakespeare.—Taming of the Shrew, Act II. Scene 1. (Petruchio to his Father-in-law.)	8
The living ray of intellectual fire. Falconer.—The Shipwreck, Line 104.	9