Cyclopædia of poetical quotations ... Edited by H. G. AdamsRobert Forrester, 1865 - 16 pages |
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... once to select a quotation upon any required subject , or to verify the correctness and authorship of one he may be desirous of using . Such a book , then , would seem to be a desideratum , which we have undertaken to supply , in a form ...
... once to select a quotation upon any required subject , or to verify the correctness and authorship of one he may be desirous of using . Such a book , then , would seem to be a desideratum , which we have undertaken to supply , in a form ...
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... once light and free , Is filled with doubts and fears ! Thy days like tedious weeks do seem , Thy weeks slow - moving months we deem , Thy months , long - lingering years . J. T. Watson . 6 ABSOLVE . ABSTINENCE . ABSOLVE . WHAT cause ...
... once light and free , Is filled with doubts and fears ! Thy days like tedious weeks do seem , Thy weeks slow - moving months we deem , Thy months , long - lingering years . J. T. Watson . 6 ABSOLVE . ABSTINENCE . ABSOLVE . WHAT cause ...
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... once accounting for his deep arrears . Dryden . Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning what thou hast to do . Dress and undress thy soul . Watch the decay , And growth of it . If with thy watch , that too Be ...
... once accounting for his deep arrears . Dryden . Sum up at night what thou hast done by day ; And in the morning what thou hast to do . Dress and undress thy soul . Watch the decay , And growth of it . If with thy watch , that too Be ...
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... spirit Pope . Denham . Seizes the prompt occasion , makes the thoughts Start into instant action , and at once Plans and performs , resolves and executes ! Hannah More . 12 ACTORS . Do something ! do it soon ! ACTIONS . 11.
... spirit Pope . Denham . Seizes the prompt occasion , makes the thoughts Start into instant action , and at once Plans and performs , resolves and executes ! Hannah More . 12 ACTORS . Do something ! do it soon ! ACTIONS . 11.
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... once past , ( soon after , when man fell , Strange alternation ! ) Sin and death unseen Following his track , ( such was the will of heaven ! ) Paved after him a broad and beaten way . Milton . And God made two great lights , great for ...
... once past , ( soon after , when man fell , Strange alternation ! ) Sin and death unseen Following his track , ( such was the will of heaven ! ) Paved after him a broad and beaten way . Milton . And God made two great lights , great for ...
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Aaron Hill Anon Beaumont and Fletcher beauty Ben Jonson birds bless bliss blush breast breath bright brow Butler Byron Charles Mackay charms cheek clouds Cowper crown dark death deeds delight Denham divine doth dream Dryden earth Ebenezer Elliott Eliza Cook eternal eyes fair fame fate fear feel flowers fools gentle give glory gold grace grief hand happy hast hath heart heaven honour hope hour Joanna Baillie Jonson king light live look man's Massinger Milton mind N. P. Willis nature nature's ne'er never night noble nought numbers o'er P. J. Bailey pain passion pleasure Pollok Pope praise pride proud rich Roscommon scorn Shakspere shine sigh sleep smile sorrow soul Spenser spirit sweet tears thee thine things Thomson thou art thought tongue truth unto virtue voice wind wings wise words Wordsworth Young youth