A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent and Appropriate Passages in the Old British Poets; with Choice and Copious Selections from the Best Modern British and American Poets |
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... heaven : But we ne'er think how sandy ' s the foundation ; What storms will batter , and what tempests shake Like eastern kings , a lazy state they keep , And , close confin'd to their own palace , sleep . Pope The gods , to curse ...
... heaven : But we ne'er think how sandy ' s the foundation ; What storms will batter , and what tempests shake Like eastern kings , a lazy state they keep , And , close confin'd to their own palace , sleep . Pope The gods , to curse ...
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... heaven , and men shall stand , Like brothers round an altar , hand in hand . O ! ever thus , America , be strong , - Like cataract's thunder pour the Freeman's song , Till struggling Europe joins the grand refrain ; And startled Asia ...
... heaven , and men shall stand , Like brothers round an altar , hand in hand . O ! ever thus , America , be strong , - Like cataract's thunder pour the Freeman's song , Till struggling Europe joins the grand refrain ; And startled Asia ...
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... heaven , respective lenity , And fire - eyed fury be my conduct now . Shaks . Romeo and Juliet . This strained passion doth you wrong , my lord : Sweet earl , divorce not wisdom from your honour . Shaks . Henry IV . I then , all ...
... heaven , respective lenity , And fire - eyed fury be my conduct now . Shaks . Romeo and Juliet . This strained passion doth you wrong , my lord : Sweet earl , divorce not wisdom from your honour . Shaks . Henry IV . I then , all ...
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... heaven rung Byron's Don Juan . With jubilee , and loud hosannahs fill'd Th ' eternal regions . Milton's Paradise Lost City , country , all , Is in gay triumph tempest toss'd , Byron . I scarce could press along . The trumpet's voice Is ...
... heaven rung Byron's Don Juan . With jubilee , and loud hosannahs fill'd Th ' eternal regions . Milton's Paradise Lost City , country , all , Is in gay triumph tempest toss'd , Byron . I scarce could press along . The trumpet's voice Is ...
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... heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind possess , As beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigour to repress ; And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of an ...
... heaven so strongly doth allure The sense of man , and all his mind possess , As beauty's lovely bait , that doth procure Great warriors oft their rigour to repress ; And mighty hands forget their manliness , Drawn with the power of an ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood breast breath bright Butler's Hudibras Byron's Childe Harold charm clouds Coriolanus Cowper's Task dark death Doge of Venice doth dream Dryden's earth Eliza Cook ev'ry eyes fair fame fear feel flowers fool Gentlemen of Verona Giaour glory grave grief Hamlet hand happy hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI honour hope hour Joanna Baillie's Julius Cæsar King light live look lord lov'd Macbeth Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream Milton's Paradise Lost mind Miss Landon nature ne'er never O. W. Holmes o'er Othello pain passion peace pleasure Poems Pope's pride Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rowe's Scott's Shaks sigh sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spenser's Fairy Queen spirit stars sweet tears thee thine things Thomson's Seasons thou art tongue truth Venice virtue wind wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth