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
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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.

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    And cheats the eyes Of gallery critics by a thousand arts. CowPER, The Timepiece. Short swallow-flights of song, that dip Their wings in tears, and skim away. Tennyson, hi Memoriam. Ft. XLVIII., st. 4. Soprano, basso, even the contra-alto Wished him five fathom under the Rialto. Byron, Beppo. St. 32. Is there no play. To ease the anguish of a torturing hour ? Midsummer Night's Dream, v, i, 1. 36. Is there a heart that music cannot melt ? Alas ! how is that rugged heart forlorn ! Beattie, The Minstrel. Bk. I, st. 56. A sound so fine, there’s nothing lives ’Twixt it and silence. Knowles, Virginius. He worked and sung from morn till night: No lark more blithe than he. Isaac Bickerstafe, Love in a Village. Light quirks of music, broken and uneven. Make the soul dance upon a jig to Heav’n. Pope, Moral Essays. Ep. iv, 1. 143. The world’s a theatre, the earth a stage. Which God and Nature do with actors fill. Thomas Heywood, An Apology for Actors. Thespis, the first professor of our art. At country wakes, sung ballads in a cart. Dryden, Pro. to University of Oxford. Take but degree away, untune that string. And, hark, what discord follows ! Troilus and Cressida. i, 3, 1. 109.