The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (425 page)

Tate, Nahum
1652–1715

1
As pants the hart for cooling streams
When heated in the chase.

New Version of the Psalms
(1696) Psalm 42 (with Nicholas Brady).

2
Through all the changing scenes of life,
In trouble and in joy,
The praises of my God shall still
My heart and tongue employ.

New Version of the Psalms
(1696) Psalm 34 (with Nicholas Brady)

3
While shepherds watched their flocks by night,
All seated on the ground,
The angel of the Lord came down,
And glory shone around.

Supplement to the New Version of the Psalms
(1700) "While Shepherds Watched"

 
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Tawney, R. H.
1880–1962

1
Militarism…is fetish worship. It is the prostration of men's souls and the laceration of their bodies to appease an idol.

The Acquisitive Society
(1921) ch. 4

2
Freedom for the pike is death for the minnows.

Equality
(ed. 4, rev. ed., 1938) ch. 5, sect. 2

3
Private property is a necessary institution, at least in a fallen world; men work more and dispute less when goods are private than when they are common. But it is to be tolerated as a concession to human frailty, not applauded as desirable in itself.

Religion and the Rise of Capitalism
(1926) ch. 1, sect. 1

4
What harm have I ever done to the Labour Party?
declining the offer of a peerage

in
Evening Standard
18 January 1962

 
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Taylor, A. J. P.
1906–90

1
History gets thicker as it approaches recent times.

English History 1914–45
(1965); bibliography

2
The First World War had begun—imposed on the statesmen of Europe by railway timetables. It was an unexpected climax to the railway age.

The First World War
(1963) ch. 1

 
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Taylor, Ann
1782–1866 and
Taylor, Jane
1783–1824

1
Who ran to help me when I fell,
And would some pretty story tell,
Or kiss the place to make it well?
My Mother.

Original Poems for Infant Minds
(1804) "My Mother"

2
Twinkle, twinkle, little star,
How I wonder what you are!
Up above the world so high,
Like a diamond in the sky!

Rhymes for the Nursery
(1806) "The Star".

 
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Taylor, Bayard
1825–78

1
Till the sun grows cold,
And the stars are old,
And the leaves of the Judgement Book unfold.

"Bedouin Song"

 
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Taylor, Jeremy
1613–67

1
This thing…that can be understood and not expressed, may take a neuter gender;—and every schoolboy knows it.

The Real Presence…
(1654) sect. 5.

2
The union of hands and hearts.

XXV Sermons Preached at Golden Grove
(1653) "The Marriage Ring" pt. 1

 
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