Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.
Language
She ceas’d, and ere his words her fate decreed
Impatient watch’d the language of his eye:
There pity dwelt.
Shenstone.—Love and Honour.
Languages are the pedigree of nations.
Dr. Johnson.—Croker’s Boswell, 340, (
Words are the leaves on the tree of language, of which if some fall away, a new succession takes their place.
Trench.—English past and present, Lect. 3. Page 151. Ed. 5.
Language is fossil poetry.
Emerson.—Essays: The Poet.