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 PoetsSarah Josepha Buell Hale |
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... light walk not so dazzlingly The sapphire walls of Heaven.- The flow Of life - time is a graduated scale ; And deeper than the vanities of power , Or the vain pomp of glory , there is writ A standard measuring its worth for heaven ...
... light walk not so dazzlingly The sapphire walls of Heaven.- The flow Of life - time is a graduated scale ; And deeper than the vanities of power , Or the vain pomp of glory , there is writ A standard measuring its worth for heaven ...
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... light of thy haunting eyes ! A human hydra issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way , Whose ... lights But seas of error ? in whose depths who sound , Of truth find only shadows , and no ground . Then if our arts ...
... light of thy haunting eyes ! A human hydra issuing from its fen To breathe destruction on its winding way , Whose ... lights But seas of error ? in whose depths who sound , Of truth find only shadows , and no ground . Then if our arts ...
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... light and gifts , With wild surprise , Are all but plagiary shifts . One hates an author that's all author , fellows In foolscap uniforms turn'd up witl . ink , So very anxious , clever , fine , and jealous , Prologue to Sir R. Howard's ...
... light and gifts , With wild surprise , Are all but plagiary shifts . One hates an author that's all author , fellows In foolscap uniforms turn'd up witl . ink , So very anxious , clever , fine , and jealous , Prologue to Sir R. Howard's ...
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... light . Southey's Madoc . Yet more ! yet more ! how fair arrayed They file from out the hawthorn shade , And sweep so gallant by ! With all their banners bravely spread , And all their armour flashing high , Saint George might waken ...
... light . Southey's Madoc . Yet more ! yet more ! how fair arrayed They file from out the hawthorn shade , And sweep so gallant by ! With all their banners bravely spread , And all their armour flashing high , Saint George might waken ...
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... light , than beauty's glorious beam . What wonder then if with such rage extreme Frail men , whose eyes seek heavenly things to see , At sight thereof so much enravish'd be ? Spenser . For beauty is the bait which , with delight , Doth ...
... light , than beauty's glorious beam . What wonder then if with such rage extreme Frail men , whose eyes seek heavenly things to see , At sight thereof so much enravish'd be ? Spenser . For beauty is the bait which , with delight , Doth ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood breast breath bright brow Butler's Hudibras charm Childe Harold 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 fools gentle Gentlemen of Verona Giaour glory grace 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 man's Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream Milton's Paradise Lost mind nature ne'er never 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 sweet tears thee thine things Thomson's Seasons thou art tongue truth Venice virtue weep wild wind wings wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth