1418 POPE: _Moral Essays,_ Epis. ii., Line 97.

=Quiet.=

Quiet to quick bosoms is a hell.

1419 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto iii., St. 42.

Safe in the hallowed quiets of the past.

1420 JAMES RUSSELL LOWELL: _The Cathedral._

=Quips.=

Quips and Cranks and wanton Wiles, Nods and Becks and wreathed Smiles.

1421 MILTON: _L'Allegro,_ Line 25.

=Quotation.=

The devil can cite scripture for his purpose.

1422 SHAKS.: _M. of Venice,_ Act i., Sc. 3.

Nor suffers Horace more in wrong translations By wits, than critics in as wrong quotations.

1423 POPE: _E. on Criticism,_ Pt. iii., Line 103.

==R.==

=Race.=

He lives to build, not boast, a generous race; No tenth transmitter of a foolish face.

1424 RICHARD SAVAGE: _The Bastard,_ Line 7.

=Rage.=

Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire 1425 DRYDEN: _Alex. Feast,_ Line 160.

=Rain.=

For the rain it raineth every day.

1426 SHAKS.: _Tw. Night,_ Act v., Sc. 1.

How beautiful is the rain!

After the dust and heat, In the broad and fiery street, In the narrow lane, How beautiful is the rain!

1427 LONGFELLOW: _Rain in Summer,_ Sts. 1 and 2.

The rain comes when the wind calls.

1428 EMERSON: _Woodnotes,_ Pt. ii., Line 271.

In winter, when the dismal rain Came down in slanting lines.

1429 ALEXANDER SMITH: _A Life Drama,_ Sc. 2.

=Rainbow.=

Hail, many-colored messenger, that ne'er Dost disobey the wife of Jupiter; Who, with thy saffron wings, upon my flowers Diffusest honey-drops, refreshing showers; And with each end of thy blue bow dost crown My bosky acres, and my unshrubb'd down, Rich scarf to my proud earth.

1430 SHAKS.: _Tempest,_ Act iv., Sc. 1.

That gracious thing made up of tears and light.

1431 COLERIDGE: _Two Founts,_ St. 5.

The rainbow comes and goes, And lovely is the rose.

1432 WORDSWORTH: _Intimations of Immortality,_ St. 2.

There was an awful rainbow once in heaven: We know her woof, her texture; she is given In the dull catalogue of common things.

Philosophy will clip an angel's wings.

1433 KEATS: _Lamia,_ Pt. ii.

=Rank.=

Superior worth your rank requires: For that, mankind reveres your sires; If you degenerate from your race, Their merits heighten your disgrace.

1434 GAY: _Fables,_ Pt. ii, Fable 11.

The rank is but the guinea stamp, The man's the gowd for a' that.

1435 BURNS: _For a' That and a' That._

=Raptures.=

If such there breathe, go, mark him well!

For him no minstrel raptures swell.

1436 SCOTT: _Lay of the Last Minstrel,_ Canto vi., St. 1.

=Rashness.=

Where men of judgment creep and feel their way, The positive pronounce without dismay.

1437 COWPER: _Conversation,_ Line 145.

One more unfortunate Weary of breath, Rashly importunate, Gone to her death.

1438 HOOD: _The Bridge of Sighs._