Where is it? A dictionary of common poetical quotations in the English languageSaunders & Otley, 1855 - 68 pages |
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Common terms and phrases
ADDISON Alexander Alexander's Feast Alps angels Arbuthnot bliss Boileau book viii book xx brazen throat BURNS BUTLER BYRON CAMPBELL canto Cato Child Harold Comus Corsair COWLEY COWPER Deserted Village divine doth DRYDEN Dunciad Elegy Epistle to Dr Essay on Criticism Eton College eyes Faery Queen Fourth Moral Essay gods gold GOLDSMITH GRAY H.R.H. PRINCE ALBERT Hamlet heaven Henry and Emma Henry VIII Honour Hudibras human Iliad infidels adore Jews might kiss Julius Caesar King Henry King Lear L'Allegro Lock Love of Fame Lycidas LYTTLETON Macbeth Mariners of England melting Midsummer Night's Dream MILTON NATHANIEL LEE ne'er Night Thoughts nought Odyssey Othello Paradise Lost Penseroso Pleasures of Hope Poems Poet Poetry POPE POPE's translation PRINTER TO H.R.H. Progress of Poesy Rape Romeo and Juliet RUPERT STREET scene SCOTT set the table shadow SHAKESPEARE SHOBERL Sofa-Task soul SPENSER sweet tale thing THOMPSON Troilus and Cressida verse what's WORDSWORTH Ye Mariners YOUNG
Popular passages
Page 26 - That light we see is burning in my hall. How far that little candle throws his beams ! So shines a good deed in a naughty world.
Page 28 - For he who fights and runs away May live to fight another day ; But he who is in battle slain Can never rise and fight again.
Page 33 - How fading are the joys we dote upon — Like apparitions seen and gone ! But those which soonest take their flight, Are the most exquisite and strong — Like angel's visits short, and bright — Mortality's too weak to bear them long.
Page 31 - Oft she rejects, but never once offends. Bright as the sun, her eyes the gazers strike, And, like the sun, they shine on all alike. Yet graceful ease, and sweetness void of pride, Might hide her faults, if belles had faults to hide: If to her share some female errors fall, Look on her face, and you'll forget them all.
Page 26 - Hope springs eternal in the human breast; Man never Is, but always To be blest; The soul, uneasy and confined from home, Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Page 21 - Bacchus' blessings are a treasure, Drinking is the soldier's pleasure: Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. Soothed with the sound, the king grew vain; Fought all his battles o'er again, And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain!
Page 61 - To gild refined gold, to paint the lily, To throw a perfume on the violet, To smooth the ice, or add another hue Unto the rainbow, or with taper-light To seek the beauteous eye of heaven to garnish, Is wasteful, and ridiculous excess.
Page 23 - For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight; His can't be wrong whose life is in the right...
Page 20 - Which lines allude to the impertinence of a French poet, called Du Perrier ; who, finding Boileau one day at church, insisted upon repeating to him an ode during the elevation of the host ; and desired his opinion, whether or no it was * Ver.
Page 29 - I cannot tell how the truth may be : I say the tale as 'twas said to me.