Mother in Bartlett's Quotations

Edmund Spenser. 1553-1599.
... Doe for the milky mothers want complaine, 4
... For all that Nature by her mother-wit 9
... Mother Hubberds Tale. Line 895.
... "Milky Mothers,"--Alexander Pope: The Dunciad, book ii. line 247. Sir Walter Scott:
... Mother wit.--Christopher Marlowe: Prologue to Tamberlaine the Great, part i.

William Shakespeare. Love's Labour 's Lost.
... A child of our grandmother Eve, a female; or, for thy more sweet understanding, a woman.

William Shakespeare. The Merchant of Venice.
... Thus when I shun Scylla, your father, I fall into Charybdis, your mother. 6

Robert Burton. 1576-1640.
... For "ignorance is the mother of devotion," as all the world knows. 38
... Ignorance is the mother of devotion.--Jeremy Taylor: To a Person newly Converted (1657).
... Your ignorance is the mother of your devotion to me.--John Dryden: The Maiden Queen, act i. sc. 2.

Beaumont and Fletcher.
... Thou wilt scarce be a man before thy mother. 18
... But strive still to be a man before your mother.--William Cowper: Connoisseur. Motto of No. iii.

George Farquhar. 1678-1707.
... Necessity, the mother of invention. 2
... Art imitates Nature, and necessity is the mother of invention.--Richard Franck: Northern Memoirs (written in 1658,
... Necessity is the mother of invention.--Wycherly: Love in a Wood, act iii. sc. 3 (1672).

Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832.
... A mother's pride, a father's joy.
... O most bucolical juvenal, under whose charge are placed the milky mothers of the herd. 13

Ralph Waldo Emerson. 1803-1882.
... all my books in originals when I have them rendered for me in my mother tongue.

Benjamin Disraeli (Earl Beaconsfield). 1805-1881.
... The author who speaks about his own books is almost as bad as a mother who talks about her own children.

Miscellaneous.
... The mother said to her daughter, "Daughter, bid thy daughter tell her daughter
... The mother to her daughter spake:

Æschylus. 525-456 B. C.
... "Honour thy father and thy mother" stands written among the three laws of most revered righteousness. 2

Pliny the Elder. 23-79 A. D.
... she [Nature] has proved to him a kind parent or a merciless stepmother. 3
... a little larger than mice, their claws alone being prominent. The mother then licks them gradually into proper shape. 12
... No more a mother, but a step-dame rather.

Plutarch. 46 (?)-120 (?) A. D.
... Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told
... Like the man who threw a stone at a bitch, but hit his step-mother, on which he exclaimed, "Not so bad!"
... pleased him pleased also all Athens; for whatever he liked, his mother liked; and whatever his mother liked, Themistocles liked; and whatever
... When the son of Themistocles was a little saucy toward his mother, he said that this boy had more power than all the Grecians; for the

Miscellaneous Translations.
... Pavia that Francis I., before leaving for Pizzighettone, wrote to his mother the memorable letter which, thanks to tradition, has become altered to

Appendix.
... of a boy who had been gathering flowers. On bringing them to his mother, he said: "Look, my dear ma! What beautiful flowers I have found

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