It contains several proverbs found in the first large collection, and evidently represents later gleanings from the same field. (7) The words of Agur, 30.

Where are the champions of your cause? Now even that very fawning train Which shared the gleanings of your gain, 50 Press foremost who shall first accuse Your selfish jobs, your paltry views, Your narrow schemes, your breach of trust, And want of talents to be just.

Thou shalt not gather the gleanings of thy harvest.

MEPHISTOPHELES Who lives, doth much experience glean; By naught in this world will he be surprised; Already in my travel-years I've seen Full many a race of mortals crystallized.

In Spain, I came upon your track, and I should hesitate to exhibit my own gleanings where you have harvested, were it not for the belief that the rapid sketches I have given will but enhance, by the contrast, the charm of your finished picture.

Also Kate Wilkes had a way of doing a memorable bit of criticism in a sentence or two: Regarding MacDowell, the American composer, "He left the harvest to the others, but what exquisite gleanings he found!"...

"There have been so few in my world from whom I could garner even the gleanings of a personality.

We perspired a great deal, shouted a great deal, and left some gleanings of the vintage hanging on the trellis work....

I shall now mark some gleanings of Dr. Johnson's conversation.

It may be interesting to some of my readers to devote a few pages to the subject, and to offer some judicial gleanings.

"What can we expect, who come a gleaning, not after the first reapers, but after the very beggars?"Cowley's Pref. to Poems,

We would suggest "Gleanings on Gardens." were not that title forestalled by an interesting little work, lately published by Mr. S. Felton.

The grape and olive harvest was ordinarily let to a contractor, who by means of his menhired free labourers, or slaves of his own or of others conducted the gleaning and pressing under the inspection of some persons appointed by the landlord for the purpose, and delivered the produce to the master;(8) very frequently the landlord sold the harvest on the tree or branch, and left the purchaser to look after the ingathering.

Several examples appeared in Francis Davison's famous miscellany known as the Poetical Rhapsody, the first edition of which, though it only appeared in 1602, contained the gleanings of the entire sixteenth century.[108] Of these imitations, four in number, the first, the work of the editor himself, is a very poor production.