Cyclopædia of poetical quotations ... Edited by H. G. AdamsRobert Forrester, 1865 - 16 pages |
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... pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . Oh ! it is ecstacy in early days , Shelley . When youth is ours - before the scorching rays Of manhood's noon hath swept away the dew , That glitters in the ...
... pain is fraught ; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought . Oh ! it is ecstacy in early days , Shelley . When youth is ours - before the scorching rays Of manhood's noon hath swept away the dew , That glitters in the ...
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... pains , its care , The drooping spirit for its fate prepare ; And each affection failing , leaves the heart Loosed from life's charm , and willing to depart . Crabbe . This heart , by age and grief congeal'd , Is no more sensible of ...
... pains , its care , The drooping spirit for its fate prepare ; And each affection failing , leaves the heart Loosed from life's charm , and willing to depart . Crabbe . This heart , by age and grief congeal'd , Is no more sensible of ...
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... , With dolour and with pain : Blithe youth is like a smile , So mirthful , and so brief ; Soon wrinkles on the cheek Come , like frost upon the leaf . - Robert Nicol . 28 28 ALCHEMY . ALDERMAN . ALEXANDRINE . ALCHEMY . AGE . 27 27.
... , With dolour and with pain : Blithe youth is like a smile , So mirthful , and so brief ; Soon wrinkles on the cheek Come , like frost upon the leaf . - Robert Nicol . 28 28 ALCHEMY . ALDERMAN . ALEXANDRINE . ALCHEMY . AGE . 27 27.
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... pain delight , Alternate like the scenes of day and night . Milton . Dryden . Hear how Timotheus ' various lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory , and ...
... pain delight , Alternate like the scenes of day and night . Milton . Dryden . Hear how Timotheus ' various lays surprise , And bid alternate passions fall and rise ! While at each change the son of Lybian Jove Now burns with glory , and ...
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... gains its end . Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeit and corporeal pain ? And , barr'd from every use of wealth , Envy the ploughman's strength and health . D Gay . 34 AMBITION . Ah ! why will kings forget that AMBITION . 33.
... gains its end . Who hath not heard the rich complain Of surfeit and corporeal pain ? And , barr'd from every use of wealth , Envy the ploughman's strength and health . D Gay . 34 AMBITION . Ah ! why will kings forget that AMBITION . 33.
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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