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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations Part 50

1006 MRS. BROWNING: _Aurora Leigh,_ Bk. i., Line 703.

Joy is the mainspring in the whole Of endless Nature's calm rotation.

Joy moves the dazzling wheels that roll In the great Time-piece of Creation.

1007 SCHILLER: _Hymn to Joy_

Joys too exquisite to last, And yet _more_ exquisite when past.

1008 JAMES MONTGOMERY: _The Little Cloud._

=Judgment.=

A Daniel come to judgment! yea, a Daniel!

1009 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

O judgment! thou art fled to brutish beasts, And men have lost their reason.

1010 SHAKS.: _Jul. Caesar,_ Act iii., Sc. 2.

=July.=

Then came hot July, boiling like to fire, That all his garments he had cast away.

1011 SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. vii., Canto vii., St. 36.

=June.=

And what is so rare as a day in June?

Then, if ever, come perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune, And over it softly her warm ear lays.

1012 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _Vision of Sir Launfal._

=Juries.=

The jury, passing on the prisoner's life, May, in the sworn twelve, have a thief or two Guiltier than him they try.

1013 SHAKS.: _M. for M.,_ Act ii., Sc. 1.

Do not your juries give their verdict As if they felt the cause, not heard it?

And as they please make matter of fact Run all on one side as they're packt.

1014 BUTLER: _Hudibras,_ Pt. ii., Canto ii., Line 365.

=Justice.=

And then, the justice; In fair round belly, with good capon lin'd, With eyes severe, and beard of formal cut, Fall of wise saws and modern instances, And so he plays his part.

1015 SHAKS.: _As You Like It,_ Act ii., Sc. 7.

The gods Grow angry with your patience: 't is their care, And must be yours, that guilty men escape not: As crimes do grow, justice should rouse itself.

1016 BEN JONSON: _Catiline,_ Act iii., Sc. 4.

Man is unjust, but God is just; and finally justice Triumphs.

1017 LONGFELLOW: _Evangeline,_ Pt. I., iii., Line 34.

==K.==

=Keys.=

Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain (The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).

1018 MILTON: _Lycidas,_ Line 109.

=Kin.=

A little more than kin, and less than kind.

1019 SHAKS.: _Hamlet,_ Act i., Sc. 2.

One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.

1020 SHAKS.: _Troil. and Cress.,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.

=Kindness.=

Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks, Shall win my love.

1021 SHAKS.: _Tam. of the S.,_ Act iv., Sc. 2.

That best portion of a good man's life,-- His little, nameless, unremembered acts Of kindness and of love.

1022 WORDSWORTH: _Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey._

=Kings.=

What have kings that privates have not too, Save ceremony?

1023 SHAKS.: _Henry V.,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

Kings are like stars,--they rise and set, they have The worship of the world, but no repose.

1024 SHELLEY: _Hellas,_ Line 195.

Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.

1025 MILTON: _Par. Lost,_ Bk. ii., Line 1.

=Kissing.=

Then kiss me hard, As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots, That grew upon my lips.

1026 SHAKS.: _Othello,_ Act iii., Sc. 3.