Some say, compar'd to Bononcini,

That Mynheer Handel's but a ninny;

Others aver that he to Handel

Is scarcely fit to hold a candle.

Strange all this difference should be

'Twixt Tweedledum and Tweedledee.

John Byrom (1691-1763): On the Feuds between Handel and Bononcini.

Lay on, Macduff,

And damn'd be him that first cries, "Hold, enough!"

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 8.

There studious let me sit,

And hold high converse with the mighty dead.

James Thomson (1700-1748): The Seasons. Winter. Line 431.

And he that stands upon a slippery place.

Makes nice of no vile hold to stay him up.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King John. Act iii. Sc. 4.

Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.

Nathaniel Cotton (1707-1788): To-morrow.

To hold, as 't were, the mirror up to nature.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Hold thou the good; define it well;

For fear divine Philosophy

Should push beyond her mark, and be

Procuress to the Lords of Hell.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): In Memoriam. liii. Stanza 4.

To hold with the hare and run with the hound.

John Heywood (Circa 1565): Proverbes. Part i. Chap. x.