A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets: Based Upon Bohn's Edition Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged : Twelve Hundred Quotations Added from American Authors |
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... grace and ease , Whom folly pleases , and whose follies please . 95 Pope : Im . of Horace . Bk ii . Epis . 2. Line 322 What folly can be ranker ? Like our shadows , Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines . 96 Young : Night Thoughts ...
... grace and ease , Whom folly pleases , and whose follies please . 95 Pope : Im . of Horace . Bk ii . Epis . 2. Line 322 What folly can be ranker ? Like our shadows , Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines . 96 Young : Night Thoughts ...
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... grace ? Bless'd with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They seem like puppets led about by wires . Churchill : Rosciad . Line 741 282 B. BALL - see ...
... grace ? Bless'd with all other requisites to please , Some want the striking elegance of ease ; The curious eye their awkward movement tires ; They seem like puppets led about by wires . Churchill : Rosciad . Line 741 282 B. BALL - see ...
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... grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and die so like a tile , A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part thereof was whey ; The nether , orange mix'd with grey . 308 Butler : Hudibras . Pt . i . Canto i . Line 241 ...
... grace Both of his wisdom and his face ; In cut and die so like a tile , A sudden view it would beguile ; The upper part thereof was whey ; The nether , orange mix'd with grey . 308 Butler : Hudibras . Pt . i . Canto i . Line 241 ...
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... grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . 326 Ben Jonson : Silent Woman . Act i . Sc . 1 Eyes that could see her on this ...
... grace ; Robes loosely flowing , hair as free ! Such sweet neglect more taketh me Than all the adulteries of art , That strike mine eyes , but not my heart . 326 Ben Jonson : Silent Woman . Act i . Sc . 1 Eyes that could see her on this ...
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... grace : Some forms , though bright , no mortal man can bear ; Some none resist , though not exceeding fair . 344 Young : Love of Fame . Satire vi . Line 141 . What is this thought or thing Which I call beauty ? is it thought or thing ...
... grace : Some forms , though bright , no mortal man can bear ; Some none resist , though not exceeding fair . 344 Young : Love of Fame . Satire vi . Line 141 . What is this thought or thing Which I call beauty ? is it thought or thing ...
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Page 180 - WHEN Freedom from her mountain height Unfurled her standard to the air, She tore the azure robe of night. And set the stars of glory there. She mingled with its gorgeous dyes The milky baldric of the skies, And striped its pure celestial white With streakings of the morning light; Then from his mansion in the sun She called her eagle bearer down, And gave into his mighty hand The symbol of her chosen land.
Page 6 - Farewell, a long farewell, to all my greatness ! This is the state of man ; to-day he puts forth The tender leaves of hope, to-morrow blossoms, And bears his blushing honors thick upon him ; The third day, comes a frost, a killing frost ; And — when he thinks, good easy man, full surely His greatness is a ripening, — nips his root, And then he falls, as I do.
Page 339 - MAY MORNING. Now the bright morning star, day's harbinger, Comes dancing from the east, and leads with her The flowery May, who from her green lap throws The yellow cowslip, and the pale primrose. Hail, bounteous May, that dost inspire Mirth, and youth, and warm desire ; Woods and groves are of thy dressing, Hill and dale doth boast thy blessing. Thus we salute thee with our early song, And welcome thee, and wish thee long.
Page 157 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 525 - To sit on rocks, to muse o'er flood and fell, To slowly trace the forest's shady scene, Where things that own not man's dominion dwell, And mortal foot hath ne'er or rarely been ; To climb the trackless mountain all unseen, With the wild flock that never needs a fold ; Alone o'er steeps and foaming falls to lean ; This is not solitude; 'tis but to hold Converse with Nature's charms, and view her stores unroll'd.
Page 110 - Ay, but to die, and go we know not where ; To lie in cold obstruction, and to rot ; This sensible warm motion to become A kneaded clod ; and the delighted spirit To bathe in fiery floods...
Page 7 - Love thyself last: cherish those hearts that hate thee; Corruption wins not more than honesty. Still in thy right hand carry gentle peace, To silence envious tongues. Be just, and fear not: Let all the ends thou aim'st at be thy country's, Thy God's, and truth's; then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr!
Page 440 - All Nature is but art, unknown to thee All chance, direction, which thou canst not see; All discord, harmony not understood; All partial evil, universal good: And, spite of pride, in erring reason's spite, One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.
Page 619 - Once more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close the wall up with our English dead ! In peace there's nothing so becomes a man As modest stillness and humility : But when the blast of war blows in our ears, Then imitate the action of the tiger...
Page 252 - IT must be so — Plato, thou reason'st well ! — Else whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, This longing after immortality ? Or whence this secret dread, and inward horror, Of falling into nought ? why shrinks the soul Back on herself, and startles at destruction ? 'Tis the divinity that stirs within us ; 'Tis heaven itself, that points out an hereafter, And intimates eternity to man.