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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... Nature and Art their truest description . In short , the book is a precious casket , where the most perfect gems of Genius the Anglo- Saxon literature has preserved for the last three hundred years are garnered . The chro nological ...
... Nature and Art their truest description . In short , the book is a precious casket , where the most perfect gems of Genius the Anglo- Saxon literature has preserved for the last three hundred years are garnered . The chro nological ...
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... nature lent him for an hour ! Young's Night Thoughts . What folly can be ranker ? like our shadows , Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines . ' Young's Night Thoughts . Age should fly concourse , cover in retreat Defects of judgment ...
... nature lent him for an hour ! Young's Night Thoughts . What folly can be ranker ? like our shadows , Our wishes lengthen as our sun declines . ' Young's Night Thoughts . Age should fly concourse , cover in retreat Defects of judgment ...
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... nature sees mankind But in appearances , not what they are . APPLAUSE - ARCHITECTURE - ARBOUR - ARGUMENT . They form'd. Myself to be a marvellous proper man . I'll be at charges for a looking - glass ; And entertain a score or two of ...
... nature sees mankind But in appearances , not what they are . APPLAUSE - ARCHITECTURE - ARBOUR - ARGUMENT . They form'd. Myself to be a marvellous proper man . I'll be at charges for a looking - glass ; And entertain a score or two of ...
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... nature's lame deformity , Begetting creatures ugly as themselves . John Ford's Love Sacrifice . When I was blind , my son , I did miscall My sordid vice of avarice , true thrift . But now forget that lesson , I prithee do , That cos ...
... nature's lame deformity , Begetting creatures ugly as themselves . John Ford's Love Sacrifice . When I was blind , my son , I did miscall My sordid vice of avarice , true thrift . But now forget that lesson , I prithee do , That cos ...
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... Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on . ' Tis beauty truly blent , whose red and white There was a soft and pensive grace , A cast. So fair , that had you beauty's picture took , It must like her , or not like beauty look . Aleyn's ...
... Nature's own sweet and cunning hand laid on . ' Tis beauty truly blent , whose red and white There was a soft and pensive grace , A cast. So fair , that had you beauty's picture took , It must like her , or not like beauty look . Aleyn's ...
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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