=Grace.=

When once our grace we have forgot,
Nothing goes right.
830
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act iv., Sc. 4.

From vulgar bounds with brave disorder part, And snatch a grace beyond the reach of art. 831 POPE:  E. on Criticism, Pt. i., Line 152.

=Grandeur.=

Nor grandeur hear with a disdainful smile
    The short and simple annals of the poor.
832
GRAY:  Elegy, St. 8.

=Gratitude.=

The still small voice of gratitude. 833 GRAY:  Ode for Music, Chorus, V., Line 8.

I’ve heard of hearts unkind, kind deeds
With coldness still returning;
Alas! the gratitude of men
Hath oftener left me mourning.
834
WORDSWORTH:  Simon Lee.

=Grave.=

One destin’d period men in common have, The great, the base, the coward, and the brave, All food alike for worms, companions in the grave. 835 LANSDOWNE:  On Death.

The grave, dread thing! 
Men shiver when thou ’rt named:  Nature appall’d,
Shakes off her wonted firmness.
836
BLAIR:  The Grave, Line 9.

Mine be the breezy hill that skirts the down, Where a green grassy turf is all I crave, With here and there a violet bestrewn, Fast by a brook or fountain’s murmuring wave; And many an evening sun shine sweetly on my grave! 837 BEATTIE:  The Minstrel, Bk. ii., St. 17.

=Greatness.=

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness. 838 SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

Rightly to be great,
Is, not to stir without great argument,
But greatly to find quarrel in a straw,
When honor’s at the stake.
839
SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iv., Sc. 4.

Great hearts have largest room to bless the small; Strong natures give the weaker home and rest. 840 LUCY LARCOM:  Sonnet, The Presence.

=Greece.=

Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth!  Immortal, though no more; though fallen, great! 841 BYRON:  Ch.  Harold, Canto ii., St. 73.

Such is the aspect of this shore;
’T is Greece, but living Greece no more! 
So coldly sweet, so deadly fair,
We start, for soul is wanting there.
842
BYRON:  Giaour, Line 90.

The isles of Greece, the isles of Greece! 
Where burning Sappho loved and sung.
843
BYRON:  Don Juan, Canto iii., St. 86. 1.

=Greeks.=

When Greeks joined Greeks, then was the tug of war. 844 NATHANIEL LEE:  Alex. the Great, Act iv., Sc. 2.

=Grief.=

My grief lies onward and my joy behind. 845 SHAKS.:  Sonnet 50.

What’s gone, and what’s past help,
Should be past grief.
846
SHAKS.:  Wint.  Tale, Act iii., Sc. 2.

What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid? 847 MILTON:  Comus, Line 362.