Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson |
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Page 23
... truth When beauty ceases to engage : So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age . PRIOR . Kindness itself too weak a charm will prove To raise the feeble fires of aged love . PRIOR . By one countless sum of woes ...
... truth When beauty ceases to engage : So thinking on thy charming youth , I'll love it o'er again in age . PRIOR . Kindness itself too weak a charm will prove To raise the feeble fires of aged love . PRIOR . By one countless sum of woes ...
Page 47
... truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires , And decorate the verse herself inspires : This fact , in Virtue's name , let Crabbe attest : Though Nature's sternest painter , yet the best . BYRON : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ...
... truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires , And decorate the verse herself inspires : This fact , in Virtue's name , let Crabbe attest : Though Nature's sternest painter , yet the best . BYRON : English Bards and Scotch Reviewers ...
Page 70
... truth Made me stay longer than I thought . WALLER . You can with single look inflame The coldest breast , the rudest tame . WALLER . And in the symmetry of her parts is found A pow'r like that of harmony and sound . WALLER . This royal ...
... truth Made me stay longer than I thought . WALLER . You can with single look inflame The coldest breast , the rudest tame . WALLER . And in the symmetry of her parts is found A pow'r like that of harmony and sound . WALLER . This royal ...
Page 121
... truth to overpeer . SHAKSPEARE . Tyrant custom Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice - driven bed of down . SHAKSPEARE . It is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance . SHAKSPEARE . SHAKSPEARE . Custom ...
... truth to overpeer . SHAKSPEARE . Tyrant custom Hath made the flinty and steel couch of war My thrice - driven bed of down . SHAKSPEARE . It is a custom More honour'd in the breach than the observance . SHAKSPEARE . SHAKSPEARE . Custom ...
Page 156
... truth denies all eloquence to woe . BYRON : Corsair . Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take . COWPER . Power above powers ! O heavenly eloquence ! That , with the strong rein of commanding words ...
... truth denies all eloquence to woe . BYRON : Corsair . Here rills of oily eloquence in soft Meanders lubricate the course they take . COWPER . Power above powers ! O heavenly eloquence ! That , with the strong rein of commanding words ...
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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