A Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Consisting of Elegant Extracts on Every Subject. Compiled from Various Authors, and Arranged Under Appropriate HeadsLindsay & Blakiston, 1848 - 494 pages |
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... hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee : There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And not a flower that sleeps beneath the moon , But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale Of thee . PROCTOR'S Mirandola . 5. What tender ...
... hour Of day or dreaming nights but I am with thee : There's not a wind but whispers of thy name , And not a flower that sleeps beneath the moon , But in its hues or fragrance tells a tale Of thee . PROCTOR'S Mirandola . 5. What tender ...
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... hour that tears my soul from thee . BYRON'S Bride of Abydos . 9. Far I go where fate may lead me , Far across the troubled deep ; Where no stranger's ear shall heed me , Where no eye for me shall weep . 10. Tho ' fate , my girl , may ...
... hour that tears my soul from thee . BYRON'S Bride of Abydos . 9. Far I go where fate may lead me , Far across the troubled deep ; Where no stranger's ear shall heed me , Where no eye for me shall weep . 10. Tho ' fate , my girl , may ...
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... , have pass'd below In much of joy , though much of woe ; Yet still , in hours of love or strife , I've ' scap'd the weariness of life . THOMSON . HANNAH MORE . BYRON'S Giaour . 7. Act ! for in action are wisdom and glory.
... , have pass'd below In much of joy , though much of woe ; Yet still , in hours of love or strife , I've ' scap'd the weariness of life . THOMSON . HANNAH MORE . BYRON'S Giaour . 7. Act ! for in action are wisdom and glory.
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... hour : Improve each moment as it flies : Life's a short summer man a flower ; He dies - alas ! how soon he dies ! - 9. Let us then be up and doing , With a heart for every fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and to ...
... hour : Improve each moment as it flies : Life's a short summer man a flower ; He dies - alas ! how soon he dies ! - 9. Let us then be up and doing , With a heart for every fate ; Still achieving , still pursuing , Learn to labour and to ...
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... hour ; Oft wide of nature must he act a part , Make love in tropes , in bombast break his heart ; In turn and simile resign his breath , And rhyme and quibble in the pains of death . 5. Whose every look and gesture was a joke To ...
... hour ; Oft wide of nature must he act a part , Make love in tropes , in bombast break his heart ; In turn and simile resign his breath , And rhyme and quibble in the pains of death . 5. Whose every look and gesture was a joke To ...
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A. B. WELBY AARON HILL beauty BEN JONSON bliss blush bosom breast breath bright brow BUTLER'S Hudibras BYRON'S Childe Harold BYRON'S Corsair BYRON'S Don Juan BYRON'S Giaour CARLOS WILCOX CHARLES SPRAGUE charms cheek clouds COWPER COWPER'S Task dark death doth dreams DRYDEN earth Essay on Criticism fair fame fate fear feel FITZ-GREEN HALLECK flowers fools GAY's Fables glory grace grief hath heart heaven honour hope hour immortal J. T. WATSON JOANNA BAILLIE life's light live lov'd man's Margaret of Anjou MILTON'S Comus MILTON'S Paradise Lost mind MOORE MOORE'S Lalla Rookh N. P. WILLIS ne'er never o'er pain Paradise Lost Parisina passion pleasure POPE POPE'S Essay praise SHAKSPEARE shine Siege of Corinth sigh smile soft sorrow soul SPENSER'S Fairy Queen spirit SPRAGUE'S Curiosity sweet tears thee thine things THOMSON'S Seasons thro virtue young YOUNG'S Night Thoughts youth