GRIEF
Curse leves loquuntur, ingentes stupent.
Light griefs are communicative, great ones stupefy.
Seneca—Hippolytus. 607.
Levis est dolor qui capere consilium potest.
That grief is light which can take counsel:
Seneca—Medea. I. 55.
Magnus sibi ipse non facit finem dolor.
Great grief does not of itself put an end to
itself.
Seneca—Troades. 786.
, If thou engrossest all the griefs are thine,
Thou robb'st me of a moiety.
All's Well That Ends Well. Act III. Sc. 2.
L. 68.
For grief is crowned with consolation.
Antony and Cleopatra. Act I. Sc. 2. L. 173.
O, grief hath chang'd me since you saw me last,
And careful hours with time's deform'd hand
Have written strange defeatures in my face.
Comedy of Errors. Act V. Sc. 1. L. 297.
That we two are asunder; let that grieve him;
Some griefs are medicinable.
Cymbeline. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 32.
Great griefs, I see, medicine the less.
Cymbeline. Act IV. Sc. 2. L. 243.
Oft have I heard that grief softens the mind
And makes it fearful and degenerate.
Henry VI. Pt. II. Act IV. Sc. 4. L. 1.
What private griefs they have, alas, I know not,
That made them do it.
Jvlius Cæsar. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 216.
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For grief is proud and makes his owner stoop.
King John. Act III. Sc. 1. L. 69.
I am not mad; I would to heaven I were!
For then, 'tis like I should forget myself:
O, if I could, what grief should 1 forget!
King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 48.
Grief fills the room up of my absent child,
Lies in his bed, walks up and down with me,
Puts on his pretty looks, repeats his words,
Remembers me of all his gracious parts,
Stuffs out his vacant garments with his form;
Then, have I reason to be fond of grief?
King John. Act III. Sc. 4. L. 93.
But then the mind much sufferance doth o'erskip.
When grief hath mates.
King Lear. Act III. Sc. 6. L. 113.
Every one can master a grief but he that has it.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act III. Sc. 2.
L. 29.
Men
Can counsel and speak comfort to that grief
Which they themselves not feel; but, tasting it,
Their counsel turns to passion, which before
GRIEF
Would give preceptial medicine to rage,
Fetter strong madness in a silken thread,
Charm ache, with air and agony with words.
Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 1. L.
20.
Nor doth the general care
Take hold on me, for my particular grief
Is of so flood-gate and o'erbearing nature
That it engluts and swallows other sorrows
And it is still itself.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 54.
When remedies are past, the griefs are ended
By seeing the worst, which late on hopes depended.
Othello. Act I. Sc. 3. L. 202.
Each substance of a grief hath twenty shadows,
Which shows like grief itself, but is not so;
For sorrow's eye, glazed with blinding tears,
Divides one thing entire to many objects.
Richard II. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 14.
You may my glories and my state depose,
But not my griefs; still am I king of those.
Richard II. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 192.
My grief lies all within;
And these external manners of laments
Are merely shadows to the unseen grief
That swells with silence in the tortur'd soul.
Richard II. Act IV. Sc. 1. L. 295.
Griefs of mine own lie heavy in my breast,
Which thou wilt propagate, to have it prest
With more of thine.
Some griefs show much of love;
But much of grief shows still some want of wit.
My grief lies onward and my joy behind.
Sonnet L.
Alas, poor man! grief has so wrought on him,
He takes false shadows for true substances.
Titus Andronicus. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 79.
But I have
That honourable grief lodg'd here which burns
Worse than tears drown.
Winter's Tale. Act II. Sc. 1. L. 110.
What's gone and what's past help
Should be past grief.
Winter's Tale. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 223.
Winter is come and gone,
But grief returns with the revolving year.
Shelley—Adonais. St. 18.
<poem>Dark is the realm of grief: but human things
Those may not know of who cannot weep for them. Shelley—Otho. (A projected poem.
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