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

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

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From grave to light; from pleasant to severe. Dryden.—Boileau’s Art of Poetry, Canto 1.	1
From grave to gay, from lively to severe. Pope.—Essay on Man, Epistle IV. Line 380.	2
In yonder grave a Druid lies. Collins.—Ode on Thomson’s Death.	3
Death ends our woes, And the kind grave shuts up the mournful scene. Dryden.—The Spanish Friar, Act V.	4
Who’s a prince or beggar in the grave? Otway.—Windsor Castle, Line 265.	5
Poor bird, who now that darksome bourne Has pass’d, whence none can e’er return. Catullus.—The Grave, III. II. (Ramage, IV.) Shakespeare.—Hamlet, Act III. Scene 1.	6
One destin’d period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All good alike for worms, companions in the grave. Lansdown.—On Death.	7
The grave, dread thing! Men shiver when thou’rt named: Nature appall’d Shakes off her wonted firmness. Blair.—The Grave, Line 9.	8