Careful Words

after (n.)

after (v.)

after (adv.)

after (adj.)

After death the doctor.

George Herbert (1593-1632): Jacula Prudentum.

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,

Looking before and after, gave us not

That capability and godlike reason

To fust in us unused.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iv. Sc. 4.

After death the doctor.

George Herbert (1593-1632): Jacula Prudentum.

After death the doctor.

George Herbert (1593-1632): Jacula Prudentum.

Where Washington hath left

His awful memory

A light for after times!

Robert Southey (1774-1843): Ode written during the War with America, 1814.

  By labour and intent study (which I take to be my portion in this life), joined with the strong propensity of nature, I might perhaps leave something so written to after times as they should not willingly let it die.

John Milton (1608-1674): The Reason of Church Government. Introduction, Book ii.

  After us the deluge.

Some force whole regions, in despite

O' geography, to change their site;

Make former times shake hands with latter,

And that which was before come after.

But those that write in rhyme still make

The one verse for the other's sake;

For one for sense, and one for rhyme,

I think's sufficient at one time.

Samuel Butler (1600-1680): Hudibras. Part ii. Canto i. Line 23.

Do not drop in for an after-loss.

Ah, do not, when my heart hath 'scap'd this sorrow,

Come in the rearward of a conquer'd woe;

Give not a windy night a rainy morrow,

To linger out a purpos'd overthrow.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Sonnet xc.