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" The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er : So calm are we when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. "
The Works of the English Poets: Waller - Page 231
by Samuel Johnson - 1779
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From Shakespeare to Pope

Edmund Gosse - Literary Criticism - 1885 - 260 pages
...can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ! So calm are we, when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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From Shakespeare to Pope

Edmund Gosse - Classicism - 1885 - 266 pages
...can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet, when the winds give o'er ! So calm are we, when passions are no more ! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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A biographical history of English literature

John Daniel Morell - 1885 - 530 pages
...those ON OLD AGE AND DEATH. The seaa are quiet when the winds give o'er1 ; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting2 things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection3 from our younger eyes Conceal...
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English Prose and Verse from Beowulf to Stevenson

Henry Spackman Pancoast - English literature - 1915 - 852 pages
...unbody'd can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er: So, calm are we, when passions R{y&]l{j x g rFw ` 7_ l b= *Γ _/ ; < +z boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. 10 Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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The Home Book of Verse, American and English, 1580-1918, Volume 1

American poetry - 1918 - 2030 pages
...unbodied, can her Maker praise. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes i . / Conceal...
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The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900

Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch - English poetry - 1918 - 1120 pages
...fair ! 306. Old Age ' I 'HE seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; *• So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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Tributes to Henry Wallace: An Incomplete Collection of Tributes to His Life ...

1919 - 270 pages
...temporal and spiritual: "The seas are quiet when the winds give oe'r; So, calm are we when passions are no more! For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost. "Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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The English Language: Its Grammar, History and Literature, Part 3

John Miller Dow Meiklejohn - English language - 1920 - 520 pages
...— Wotton. (c) " The seas are quiet « hen the winds give o'er ; •, So calm are we when passions are no more ; For then we know how vain it was to boast EXERCISE XXIII. (Analysis— Revision). Analyse, as before : — (a) " Let me tell the adventurous...
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McGuffey's First [-sixth] Eclectic Reader, Volume 6

William Holmes McGuffey - Readers - 1921 - 506 pages
...disfigured by affected conceits. The seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, too certain to be lost. Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal...
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The Oral Study of Literature

Algernon de Vivier Tassin - English literature - 1923 - 456 pages
...Soul. ANONYMOUS 74. OLD AGE THE seas are quiet when the winds give o'er; So calm are we when passions are no more. For then we know how vain it was to boast Of fleeting things, so certain to be lost Clouds of affection from our younger eyes Conceal that...
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