Cyclopædia of poetical quotations ... Edited by H. G. AdamsRobert Forrester, 1865 - 16 pages |
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... rise at first , and great from abject things . Middleton . The rapine is so abject and profane , They not from trifles , nor from gods refrain . Dryden , from Juvenal . To what base ends , and by what abject ways Are mortals urged ...
... rise at first , and great from abject things . Middleton . The rapine is so abject and profane , They not from trifles , nor from gods refrain . Dryden , from Juvenal . To what base ends , and by what abject ways Are mortals urged ...
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... rise . Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction ; As oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to lighten all our future days . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue , Where patience , honour , sweet humanity , Calm ...
... rise . Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction ; As oft the cloud that wraps the present hour Serves but to lighten all our future days . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue , Where patience , honour , sweet humanity , Calm ...
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... rise ! While at each change the son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love . Unhappy man ! whom sorrow thus and rage , To different ills alternately engage . And swift and swift , with rapid lightness , The ...
... rise ! While at each change the son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory , and then melts with love . Unhappy man ! whom sorrow thus and rage , To different ills alternately engage . And swift and swift , with rapid lightness , The ...
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... . Westward a pompous frontispiece appeared , On Doric pillars of white marble reared , Crowned with an architrave of antique mould , And sculpture rising on the roughened gold . Pope . ARGOSY . YOUR mind is tossing on the ocean ;
... . Westward a pompous frontispiece appeared , On Doric pillars of white marble reared , Crowned with an architrave of antique mould , And sculpture rising on the roughened gold . Pope . ARGOSY . YOUR mind is tossing on the ocean ;
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... rise to stations of command , Rises by open means ; -Who comprehends his trust , and to the same Keeps faithful , with a singleness of aim . The army , like a lion from his den , Wordsworth . Marched forth with nerve and sinews bent to ...
... rise to stations of command , Rises by open means ; -Who comprehends his trust , and to the same Keeps faithful , with a singleness of aim . The army , like a lion from his den , Wordsworth . Marched forth with nerve and sinews bent to ...
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