Word: thine
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Dates: during 1890-1899
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...have to make or keep fortunes, their individualities must be pitted against those of others; and in the struggle of individualities a knowledge of one's own, with its strength and weakness, is of the first importance. There were never wiser words spoken than those of old Polonius; "To thine own self be true, and it must follow as the night the day, thou canst not then be false to any man." But how can a man be true to himself, if he does not know himself; and how can he know himself if he mistrusts his own identity...
...Copeland complained that outside of Jonson's ballad, "Drink to me only with thine Eyes," almost no works of the minor dramatists of the Elizabethan age are read nowadays. The plays of Jonson, Webster, Hayward and the rest, are many of them excellent reading, and a slight acquaintance with them will almost always bring with it the desire for greater familiarity. Not only are they thus interesting in themselves, but they form the best background for Shakespeare's works, and it is a shame that we are content to take him without...
...Drink to Me only with Thine Eyes, Words by Ben Jonson, harmony by Vogrich...
...Wright spoke at Appleton Chapel last night, taking for his text the verse: "Yea, the sparrow hath found a house, and the swallow a nest for herself, even thine altars. O Lord of hosts, my King...
...Drink to Me Only with Thine Eyes...