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 E. Claxton, 1881 - 583 pages |
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... Lord Browne , Willam Browning , Robert Brydges , Sir Edgerton Buckingham , Duke of Bulwer , Sir Edward Lytton Burns , Robert Butler , Mrs. Frances Kemble Butler , Samuel Byron , George , Lord Campbell , Thomas Carew , Lady Carew ...
... Lord Browne , Willam Browning , Robert Brydges , Sir Edgerton Buckingham , Duke of Bulwer , Sir Edward Lytton Burns , Robert Butler , Mrs. Frances Kemble Butler , Samuel Byron , George , Lord Campbell , Thomas Carew , Lady Carew ...
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... Lord Brooke . And of rude commons rich enclosures make . Solemnity's a cover for a sot . James Howell . I find the fool when I behold the screen ; For ' tis the wise man's interest to be seen Young's Love of Fame For though I must ...
... Lord Brooke . And of rude commons rich enclosures make . Solemnity's a cover for a sot . James Howell . I find the fool when I behold the screen ; For ' tis the wise man's interest to be seen Young's Love of Fame For though I must ...
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... cursed love of gold ; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds , First starv'd in this , then damn'd in that to come Blair's Grave . Who , lord of millions , trembles for his store 36 AVARICE .
... cursed love of gold ; when for thy sake The fool throws up his interest in both worlds , First starv'd in this , then damn'd in that to come Blair's Grave . Who , lord of millions , trembles for his store 36 AVARICE .
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... lord of millions , trembles for his store , And fears to give a farthing to the poor ; Proclaims that penury will be his fate , And , scowling , looks on charity with hate . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . The love of gold , that meanest ...
... lord of millions , trembles for his store , And fears to give a farthing to the poor ; Proclaims that penury will be his fate , And , scowling , looks on charity with hate . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . The love of gold , that meanest ...
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... lords in four battalias Bring on their forces , but so furious grows In little time the fight , so near the blows ... Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt , The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt , The Douglas in red herrings ; And noble ...
... lords in four battalias Bring on their forces , but so furious grows In little time the fight , so near the blows ... Lord Stafford mines for coal and salt , The Duke of Norfolk deals in malt , The Douglas in red herrings ; And noble ...
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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