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

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

Misery


Misery makes sport to mock itself. Shakespeare.—King Richard II., Act II. Scene 1.	1
In misery’s darkest cavern known, His useful care was ever nigh; Where hopeless anguish pour’d his groan, And lonely want retired to die. Dr. Johnson.—On the death of Mr. Robert Levett, (Verse 5.)	2
Misery still delights to trace Its semblance in another’s case. Cowper.—The Castaway, Verse 10.	3
’Tis misery enough to be reduc’d To the low level of the common herd, Who, born to beggary, envy all above them. Lillo.—Fatal Curiosity, Act I. Scene 2.	4
Misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Shakespeare.—The Tempest, Act II. Scene 2.	5
When a few words will rescue misery out of her distress, I hate the man who can be a churl of them. Sterne.—Sentimental Journey, Calais, Line 22.	6
Misery doth part The flux of company; anon, a careless herd, Full of the pasture, jumps along by him, And never stays to greet him: “Ay,” quoth Jaques, “Sweep on, you fat and greasy citizens; ’Tis just the fashion: wherefore do you look Upon that poor and broken bankrupt there?” Shakespeare.—As You Like It, Act II. Scene 1.	7