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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... sleep . Suckling her babe , her only one , look out The way he went at parting , -but he came not . Rogers's Italy ... sleeps beneath the moon But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale Of thee . The thoughts of other days are rushing on ...
... sleep . Suckling her babe , her only one , look out The way he went at parting , -but he came not . Rogers's Italy ... sleeps beneath the moon But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale Of thee . The thoughts of other days are rushing on ...
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... sleep . Pope The gods , to curse Pamela with her pray'rs , Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares , The shining robes , rich jewels , beds of state , And to complete her bliss , -a fool for mate . She glares in balls , front ...
... sleep . Pope The gods , to curse Pamela with her pray'rs , Gave the gilt coach and dappled Flanders mares , The shining robes , rich jewels , beds of state , And to complete her bliss , -a fool for mate . She glares in balls , front ...
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... sleep , Three paces and then faltering : -better be Where the extinguish'd Spartans still are free , In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ , Than stagnate in our marsh , -or o'er the deep Fly , and one current to the ocean add , One ...
... sleep , Three paces and then faltering : -better be Where the extinguish'd Spartans still are free , In their proud charnel of Thermopylæ , Than stagnate in our marsh , -or o'er the deep Fly , and one current to the ocean add , One ...
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... sleep and the wounded to die . Campbell's Soldier's Dream . Twice hath the sun upon their conflict set , And risen again , and found them grappling yet ; While steams of carnage , in his noon - tide blaze , Smoke up to heav'n . Moore's ...
... sleep and the wounded to die . Campbell's Soldier's Dream . Twice hath the sun upon their conflict set , And risen again , and found them grappling yet ; While steams of carnage , in his noon - tide blaze , Smoke up to heav'n . Moore's ...
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... sleep ill never lie . Shaks . Romeo and Julies Care is no cure , but rather corrosive , For things that are not to ... sleeps like careless infancy . Scott's Rokeby And on , with many a step of pain , Our weary race is sadly run ; And ...
... sleep ill never lie . Shaks . Romeo and Julies Care is no cure , but rather corrosive , For things that are not to ... sleeps like careless infancy . Scott's Rokeby And on , with many a step of pain , Our weary race is sadly run ; And ...
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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