A Complete Dictionary of Poetical Quotations: Comprising the Most Excellent and Appropriate Passages in the Old British Poets; with Choice and Copious Selections from the Best Modern British and American Poets |
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... Pope , Alexander Porteus , Dr. Beilby Powell , George Praed , Winthrop M. Proctor , Bryan Waller Quarles , Francis Raleigh , Sir Walter Randolph , Thomas Rawlins , Thomas Richards , Nathaniel Havard , William Heath , Robert Heber ...
... Pope , Alexander Porteus , Dr. Beilby Powell , George Praed , Winthrop M. Proctor , Bryan Waller Quarles , Francis Raleigh , Sir Walter Randolph , Thomas Rawlins , Thomas Richards , Nathaniel Havard , William Heath , Robert Heber ...
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... Pope's Eloisa . No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can do . Pope's Eloisa . Of all affliction taught a lover yet , ' Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! O tell him I have sat these three long ...
... Pope's Eloisa . No happier task these faded eyes pursue ; To read and weep is all they now can do . Pope's Eloisa . Of all affliction taught a lover yet , ' Tis sure the hardest science to forget ! O tell him I have sat these three long ...
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... Pope . Oh , sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madınen in the heaps they raise . Pope's Essay on Man Unnumber'd ...
... Pope . Oh , sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madınen in the heaps they raise . Pope's Essay on Man Unnumber'd ...
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... Pope's Rape of the Lock . Not youthful kings in battle seized alive , Not scornful virgins who their charms survive , Not ardent lovers robb'd of all their bliss , Not ancient ladies when refused a kiss , Not tyrants fierce that ...
... Pope's Rape of the Lock . Not youthful kings in battle seized alive , Not scornful virgins who their charms survive , Not ardent lovers robb'd of all their bliss , Not ancient ladies when refused a kiss , Not tyrants fierce that ...
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... Pope's Windsor Forest His eye - brow dark , and eye of fire , Showed spirit proud , and prompt to ire ; Yet lines of thought upon his check Did deep design and counsel speak . Scott's Marmion . His brow was bent , his eye was glazed- He ...
... Pope's Windsor Forest His eye - brow dark , and eye of fire , Showed spirit proud , and prompt to ire ; Yet lines of thought upon his check Did deep design and counsel speak . Scott's Marmion . His brow was bent , his eye was glazed- He ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood breast breath bright Butler's Hudibras Byron's Childe Harold charm clouds Coriolanus Cowper's Task dark death Doge of Venice doth dream Dryden's earth Eliza Cook ev'ry eyes fair fame fear feel flowers fool Gentlemen of Verona Giaour glory grave grief Hamlet hand happy hath heart heaven Henry Henry IV Henry VI honour hope hour Joanna Baillie's Julius Cæsar King light live look lord lov'd Macbeth Merchant of Venice Midsummer Night's Dream Milton's Paradise Lost mind Miss Landon nature ne'er never O. W. Holmes o'er Othello pain passion peace pleasure Poems Pope's pride Richard Richard III Romeo and Juliet Rowe's Scott's Shaks sigh sleep smile soft sorrow soul Spenser's Fairy Queen spirit stars sweet tears thee thine things Thomson's Seasons thou art tongue truth Venice virtue wind wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth