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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... Round him are icy rocks , and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head , And thus reward the toils which to those summits Byron's Childe Horold . led . But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell , And there hath been thy bane ; there ...
... Round him are icy rocks , and loudly blow Contending tempests on his naked head , And thus reward the toils which to those summits Byron's Childe Horold . led . But quiet to quick bosoms is a hell , And there hath been thy bane ; there ...
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... round an altar , hand in hand . O ! ever thus , America , be strong , - Nabb's Covent Garden . He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth , dies bankrupt on the score . John Cleveland . They that on glorious ...
... round an altar , hand in hand . O ! ever thus , America , be strong , - Nabb's Covent Garden . He that to ancient wreaths can bring no more From his own worth , dies bankrupt on the score . John Cleveland . They that on glorious ...
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... round the edge , and challenge him Whose ' twas to swear to it . To serve things thus Is as foul witches to cut up old moons Into new stars . Some never rise above A pretty fault , like faulty dahlias ; And of whose best things it is ...
... round the edge , and challenge him Whose ' twas to swear to it . To serve things thus Is as foul witches to cut up old moons Into new stars . Some never rise above A pretty fault , like faulty dahlias ; And of whose best things it is ...
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... round Imbrown ; crowded umbrage , dusk , and dun , Of every hue , from wan declining green To sooty dark . Thomson's Seasons . The pale descending year , yet pleasing still , A gentler mood inspires ; for now the leaf Incessant rustles ...
... round Imbrown ; crowded umbrage , dusk , and dun , Of every hue , from wan declining green To sooty dark . Thomson's Seasons . The pale descending year , yet pleasing still , A gentler mood inspires ; for now the leaf Incessant rustles ...
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... round thee now , to gaze and do thee homage ? Methinks I see thee with thy head laid low ; Whilst surfeited upon thy damask chcek , The high - fed worm , in lazy volumes roll'd , Riots unscar'd . For this was all thy caution ? T'improve ...
... round thee now , to gaze and do thee homage ? Methinks I see thee with thy head laid low ; Whilst surfeited upon thy damask chcek , The high - fed worm , in lazy volumes roll'd , Riots unscar'd . For this was all thy caution ? T'improve ...
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bear beauty blood breath bright Byron's child clouds dark death deep doth dream earth eyes face fair faith fall fame fate fear feel fire flowers fool fortune give glory grace grave grief grow hand happy hast hath head hear heart heaven Henry honour hope hour human Italy John keep kind King leave light live look lord man's Milton's Paradise Lost mind Miss nature never night o'er once pain passion peace pleasure Poems poor pride reason rest Richard rise round Shaks sigh sleep smile soft soul sound speak spirit stand stars sweet tears tell thee things Thomson's thou thought thousand true truth turn virtue wealth wind wise wish Young's youth
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Page 488 - The seasons' difference ; as the icy fang, And churlish chiding of the winter's wind ; Which when it bites and blows upon my body, Even till I shrink with cold, I smile, and say, — This is no flattery : these are counsellors That feelingly persuade me...
Page 203 - EVEN such is time, that takes in trust Our youth, our joys, our all we have, And pays us but with age and dust ; Who in the dark and silent grave, When we have wandered all our ways, Shuts up the story of our days ; But from this earth, this grave, this dust, My God shall raise me up, I trust.
Page 198 - The times have been That, when the brains were out, the man would die, And there an end ; but now they rise again, With twenty mortal murders on their crowns, And push us from our stools.
Page 401 - That they are not a pipe for fortune's finger To sound what stop she please. Give me that man That is not passion's slave, and I will wear him In my heart's core, ay, in my heart of heart, As I do thee.
Page 567 - Crabbed age and youth cannot live together: Youth is full of pleasance, age is full of care; Youth like summer morn, age like winter weather; Youth like summer brave, age like winter bare. Youth is full of sport, age's breath is short; Youth is nimble, age is lame; Youth is hot and bold, age is weak and cold; Youth is wild, and age is tame.
Page 98 - Full little knowest thou, that hast not tried, What hell it is in suing long to bide: To lose good days, that might be better spent; To waste long nights in pensive discontent; To speed to-day, to be put back to-morrow; To feed on hope, to pine with fear and sorrow; To have thy prince's grace, yet want her peers...
Page 146 - Earth fills her lap with pleasures of her own; Yearnings she hath in her own natural kind, And, even with something of a mother's mind And no unworthy aim, The homely nurse doth all she can To make her foster-child, her inmate, Man, Forget the glories he hath known And that imperial palace whence he came. Behold the Child among his newborn blisses, A six years
Page 143 - t possible? CAS I remember a mass of things, but nothing distinctly; a quarrel, but nothing wherefore. O God, that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should, with joy, pleasance, revel and applause, transform ourselves into beasts!
Page 250 - The stars shall fade away, the sun himself Grow dim with age, and Nature sink in years, But thou shalt flourish in immortal youth, Unhurt amidst the war of elements, The wreck of matter, and the crush of worlds.
Page 66 - And, father cardinal, I have heard you say, That we shall see and know our friends in heaven: If that be true, I shall see my boy again...