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 Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1875 - 576 pages |
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... sorrow ; But no man's virtue , nor sufficiency , To be so moral , when he shall endure The like himself . Therefore give me no counsel : My griefs cry louder than advertisement . Shaks . Much aus Men Can counsel and speak comfort to ...
... sorrow ; But no man's virtue , nor sufficiency , To be so moral , when he shall endure The like himself . Therefore give me no counsel : My griefs cry louder than advertisement . Shaks . Much aus Men Can counsel and speak comfort to ...
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... sorrow , losing too The love that soothed the pain ? Oh ! still may heaven within my soul Keep truth and love alive , - Then angel graces will be mine , Though over thirty - five . AGRICULTURE .. Mrs. Ha In ancient times , the sacred ...
... sorrow , losing too The love that soothed the pain ? Oh ! still may heaven within my soul Keep truth and love alive , - Then angel graces will be mine , Though over thirty - five . AGRICULTURE .. Mrs. Ha In ancient times , the sacred ...
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... their days , surviving perils past Melt to calm twilight , they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness , and so die ; Even as a flame unfed , which runs to waste Rights cheaply earn'd with blood . Still , still , AMBITION . 21.
... their days , surviving perils past Melt to calm twilight , they feel overcast With sorrow and supineness , and so die ; Even as a flame unfed , which runs to waste Rights cheaply earn'd with blood . Still , still , AMBITION . 21.
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... sorrow , And dread of fancy'd want to - morrow . Butler . Prior's Alma . But the base miser starves amidst his store , Broods on his gold , and griping still at more , its sadly pining and believes he's poor . Dryden's Wife of Bath ...
... sorrow , And dread of fancy'd want to - morrow . Butler . Prior's Alma . But the base miser starves amidst his store , Broods on his gold , and griping still at more , its sadly pining and believes he's poor . Dryden's Wife of Bath ...
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... sorrow's tale . Byron's Bride of Abydos So bright the tear in beauty's eye Love half regrets to kiss it dry , So sweet the blush of bashfulness Even pity scarce can wish it less . Byron's Bride of Abydo Who hath not proved how feebly ...
... sorrow's tale . Byron's Bride of Abydos So bright the tear in beauty's eye Love half regrets to kiss it dry , So sweet the blush of bashfulness Even pity scarce can wish it less . Byron's Bride of Abydo Who hath not proved how feebly ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood bosom breast breath bright Butler's Hudibras charm 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 Milton's Paradise Lost mind nature ne'er never O. W. Holmes o'er Othello pain passion peace Pindar pleasure Poems Pope's pride proud Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rowe's Scott's Shaks sigh sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spenser's Fairy Queen spirit stars sweet tears thee thine things Thomson's Seasons thou art Timon of Athens tongue truth Venice virtue weep wind wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth