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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... passion , emotion , and feeling of the human soul . Here , also , every condition and pursuit of life may find its motto or character , and the beauties of Nature and Art their truest description . short , the book is a precious casket ...
... passion , emotion , and feeling of the human soul . Here , also , every condition and pursuit of life may find its motto or character , and the beauties of Nature and Art their truest description . short , the book is a precious casket ...
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... Passion 267 Patience 395 Shipwreck 397 Shooting 475 Winter . Trresolution 267 Patriotism . 398 Silence 476 Wisdom Italy .. 267 Peace 401 Sin .. 477 Wit . Peasant 402 Sincerity 477 Witches J. Pen ... 403 Single Life . 478 Woman Jail 968 ...
... Passion 267 Patience 395 Shipwreck 397 Shooting 475 Winter . Trresolution 267 Patriotism . 398 Silence 476 Wisdom Italy .. 267 Peace 401 Sin .. 477 Wit . Peasant 402 Sincerity 477 Witches J. Pen ... 403 Single Life . 478 Woman Jail 968 ...
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... passion Watching its tranced sleep . Suckling her babe , her only one , look out The way he went at parting , -but he came not . Rogers's Italy There as she sought repose , her sorrowing heart Recall'd her absent love with bitter sighs ...
... passion Watching its tranced sleep . Suckling her babe , her only one , look out The way he went at parting , -but he came not . Rogers's Italy There as she sought repose , her sorrowing heart Recall'd her absent love with bitter sighs ...
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... passion , which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage , Fetter strong madness in a silken thread , Charm ache with air , and agony with words . Shaks . Much ado . A wretched soul , bruised with adversity , We bid be quiet , when ...
... passion , which before Would give preceptial medicine to rage , Fetter strong madness in a silken thread , Charm ache with air , and agony with words . Shaks . Much ado . A wretched soul , bruised with adversity , We bid be quiet , when ...
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... passion and infirmity of age . Frowde's Philotas . Age sits with decent grace upon his visage , And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears the marks of many years well spent , Of virtue , truth well tried , and wise experience ...
... passion and infirmity of age . Frowde's Philotas . Age sits with decent grace upon his visage , And worthily becomes his silver locks ; He wears the marks of many years well spent , Of virtue , truth well tried , and wise experience ...
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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