The banquet book : a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet / by Cuyler Reynolds with an introduction by Elbert Hubbard.

  • Reynolds, Cuyler, 1866-1934.
Date:
1902
Catalogue details

Licence: In copyright

Credit: The banquet book : a classified collection of quotations designed for general reference, and also as an aid in the preparation of the toast list, the after-dinner speech, and the occasional address; together with suggestions concerning the menu and certain other details connected with the proper ordering of the banquet / by Cuyler Reynolds with an introduction by Elbert Hubbard. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The University of Leeds Library. The original may be consulted at The University of Leeds Library.

    38/502 (page 16)
    If it be true that good wine needs no bush, ’t is true that a good play needs no epilogue. As You Like It. Epilogue, 1. 3. This wide and universal theatre presents more woful pageants than the scene wherein we play. As You Like It. ii, 7, 1. 137. A careless song, with a little nonsense in it now and then, does not mis-become a monarch. Wai,poi,e, 1770- The trained ear has music in it, even when the deft fingers forget in part to touch the keys. Doane, St. Agnes Addresses, 1885. Great men do not play stage tricks with the doctrines of life and death : only little men do that. Ruskin, Sesame and Lilies. Lecture I, 20. The world was very guilty of such a ballad some three ages since; but I think now’t is not to be found. Love's Labour's Lost, i, 2. A look, a gesture, an attitude, a tone of voice, all bear their parts in the great work of pleasing. Chesterfield's Letters. May 15, 1749. They do no more adhere and keep place together than the Hundreth Psalm to the tune Greensleeves. Me^ty Wives of Windsor, ii, i. Who that has heard a strain of music feared then lest he should speak extravagantly any more for ever ? Thoreau, Walden. There are three things that I have always loved and have never understood : Painting, Music, and Women, FonTeneELE. ’T is the common disease of all your musicians, that they know no mean, to be entreated either to begin or end. BenJonson, The Poetaster, ii, i.