What the Immortals Say About the Dog.
“1 aih Sir Oracle, and when 1 ope my lips let no dog bark ! ” — Shakespeare, "Merchant of Venice.” "Like a hog, or dog in the manger, he doth only keep It because it shall do nobody else good, hurting himself and others.** Bullion. "But things, admitted to that eipial sky, His faithful dog shall bear him company.” — l*dpe. 1 d<» not know, sir, that the fellow is an Intidel; but if he be an infidel, he is mi intidel at a dog in an infidel; that is
Io say, he has never thought upon the mibjeet.” ’** - Samuel Johnson. Ko they (Asarias and Tobias) went forth both, and the young man's dog went with them.” —Old Testament, Tobit v, Id. "It has been related that dogs drink at the Nile running along, that they may not be seised by the crocodiles.” —Phaedrus, 8 A.l). •‘1 had rather be a dog, and bay the moon, than such a Roman.” —Klialcespeare "Julius Caesar.” "Is thy servant a dog, that he should do this thing’’—Old Testament, 11 Kings xvi,
"Kir, a woman preaching ie like a dog’s walking on his hind legs. It is not done well; but you-are surprised to find it done -Samuel Johnson. Hercules himself do what he may, The cat will mew and dog will have his day.” —Shakespeare, "Hamlet.” "1 pray thee let me and my fellow have a ha ire of the dog that bit us last night.”— Heywood. “He will hold thee, when his passion shall have apent its novel force, Something better than his dog, a little dearer than his horse.’* —Tennyson, ‘‘Locksley Hall.**
"Throw physic to the dogs: I*l} none </ it.” Shakespeare, "Macbeth.” Celia: Not a word? Rosalind: Not one to throw at a Shakespeare, "As You Dike It.’* ‘‘l am his Highness’ dog at Kcw; Fray, tell me, sir, whose dog are you?’* On the Collar of a Dog. —Pope. v "A living dog is better than a dead lion.’’ — Old Testament, Ecrlcciastas ix, 4. “And in that town a dog was found. As many dogs there be, Roth mongrel, puppy, whelp and hount. And curs of low degree.” —Goldsmith* |
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New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 20, 15 November 1911, Page 58
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363What the Immortals Say About the Dog. New Zealand Graphic, Volume XLVI, Issue 20, 15 November 1911, Page 58
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