The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

At last the belles ryngeth to evensonge.
‘The Passetyme of Pleasure’ (1509) ch. 42, st. 10
8.52 Lord Haw-Haw
See William Joyce (10.52)
8.53 R. S. Hawker 1803-75
And have they fixed the where and when?
And shall Trelawny die?
Here’s twenty thousand Cornish men
Will know the reason why!
‘The Song of the Western Men’; the last three lines have existed since the imprisonment by James II, in 1688,
of the seven Bishops, including Trelawny, Bishop of Bristol
8.54 Nathaniel Hawthorne 1804-64
Dr Johnson’s morality was as English an article as a beefsteak.
‘Our Old Home’ (1863) ‘Lichfield and Uttoxeter’
8.55 Ian Hay (John Hay Beith) 1876-1952
What do you mean, funny? Funny-peculiar or funny ha-ha?
‘The Housemaster’ (1938) act 3
8.56 J. Milton Hayes 1884-1940
There’s a one-eyed yellow idol to the north of Khatmandu,
There’s a little marble cross below the town,
There’s a broken-hearted woman tends the grave of Mad Carew,
And the Yellow God forever gazes down.
‘The Green Eye of the Yellow God’ (1911)
8.57 Eliza Haywood c.1693-1756
One has no sooner left off one’s bib and apron, than people cry—’Miss will soon be
married!’—and this man, and that man, is presently picked out for a husband. Mighty ridiculous!
they want to deprive us of all the pleasures of life, just when one begins to have a relish for them.
‘The History of Miss Betty Thoughtless’ (1751) p. 452 in the Pandora ed., 1986
8.58 William Hazlitt 1778-1830
His sayings are generally like women’s letters; all the pith is in the postscript.
Referring to Charles Lamb in ‘Conversations of Northcote.’ (Boswell Redivivus, 1826-27)
He talked on for ever; and you wished him to talk on for ever.
‘Lectures on the English Poets’ (1818) ‘On the Living Poets’ (on Coleridge)
So have I loitered my life away, reading books, looking at pictures, going to plays, hearing,