Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson |
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... hope , Or else expect a listless , lazy crop . GAY . The ploughman leaves the task of day , And trudging homeward whistles on the way . GAY . How turnips hide their swelling heads below , And how the closing coleworts upwards grow . GAY ...
... hope , Or else expect a listless , lazy crop . GAY . The ploughman leaves the task of day , And trudging homeward whistles on the way . GAY . How turnips hide their swelling heads below , And how the closing coleworts upwards grow . GAY ...
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... hope in air of your fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with ev'ry nod to tumble down . SHAKSPEARE . ' Tis a common proof , That lowliness is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ...
... hope in air of your fair looks , Lives like a drunken sailor on a mast , Ready with ev'ry nod to tumble down . SHAKSPEARE . ' Tis a common proof , That lowliness is young ambition's ladder , Whereto the climber upward turns his face ...
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... hope again that well - born men may shine ; The meanest in your nature mild and good , The noble rest secured in your blood . ARMS . WALLER . The whole division that to Mars pertains , All trades of death that deal in steel for gains ...
... hope again that well - born men may shine ; The meanest in your nature mild and good , The noble rest secured in your blood . ARMS . WALLER . The whole division that to Mars pertains , All trades of death that deal in steel for gains ...
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... Hope . Condorcet filter'd through the dregs of Paine . CANNING : Anti - Jacobin . Be that blind bard , who on the Chian strand By those deep sounds possess'd with inward light , Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of ...
... Hope . Condorcet filter'd through the dregs of Paine . CANNING : Anti - Jacobin . Be that blind bard , who on the Chian strand By those deep sounds possess'd with inward light , Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssee Rise to the swelling of ...
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... years ? Can these , when tortured by disease , Cheer our sick hearts , or purchase ease ? Can these prolong one gasp of breath , Or calm the troubled hour of death ? GAY . BATTLE . O Marcia , let me hope thy kind I ...
... years ? Can these , when tortured by disease , Cheer our sick hearts , or purchase ease ? Can these prolong one gasp of breath , Or calm the troubled hour of death ? GAY . BATTLE . O Marcia , let me hope thy kind I ...
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ADDISON ANNE BRADSTREET beauty BEN JONSON birds BLACKMORE bless bliss breast breath bright BYRON charms Childe Harold clouds coursers COWLEY COWPER dark death delight DENHAM doth dreams DRYDEN earth eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear flowers fools gentle give glory golden grace grief happy hast hath heart heaven honour hope hour Hudibras ISAAC WATTS JOANNA BAILLIE king light live look Lord MILTON mind morning muse N. P. WILLIS nature ne'er never Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace pleasure POPE pow'r praise pride PRIOR rich ROSCOMMON round shade SHAKSPEARE shine sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul SPENSER spirit spring stars stream sweet SWIFT tears thee thine things THOMSON thou trees truth virtue voice WALLER WALTER HARTE weep wind wings wise woman words YOUNG youth