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

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

Lost


What though the field be lost! All is not lost; th’ unconquerable will, And study of revenge, immortal hate, And courage never to submit or yield, And what is else not to be overcome. Milton.—Paradise Lost, Book I. Line 105.	1
Dear is the spot where Christians sleep, And sweet the strain which angels pour; Oh, why should we in anguish weep? They are not lost, but gone before. Anonymous.—See R. A. Smith’s Edinburgh Harmony, 1829, and Rogers’ Human Life.	2
Such is the tale, so sad, to memory dear, Which oft in youth has charm’d my listening ear. H. Kirke White.—Clifton Grove, Line 441.	3
Good Titus could, but Charles could never say, Of all his royal life, he “lost a day.” Duke.—Poem on the Death of Charles II.	4
“I’ve lost a day”—the prince who nobly cried, Had been an emperor without his crown. Dr. Young.—Night II. Line 99.	5
This world, ’tis true, Was made for Cæsar, but for Titus, too; And which more blest? Who chain’d his country? say, Or he whose virtue sigh’d to lose a day? Pope.—Essay on Man, Epi. IV. Stanza 1.	6
The delight of men, He who the day, when his overflowing hand Had made no happy heart, concluded lost! Thomson.—Liberty.	7
How hard their lot who neither won nor lost! Anonymous.—The Bucks had Dined. (Elegant Extracts.)	8