A Dictionary of Quotations from the English Poets |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 77
Page 2
... Which nature fram'd for need , not for excess . Browne , Past . Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue abstinence . Herrick , Aph . 331 . ABUNDANCE - ACTION . 3 ABUNDANCE . Thick as autumnal.
... Which nature fram'd for need , not for excess . Browne , Past . Against diseases here the strongest fence Is the defensive virtue abstinence . Herrick , Aph . 331 . ABUNDANCE - ACTION . 3 ABUNDANCE . Thick as autumnal.
Page 6
... virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience , honour , sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root and strongly flourish . Somerville . Butler , Hud . Mallet , Alfred . Mal . Alfr . ADVERSITY - ADVICE ...
... virtue . Affliction is the wholesome soil of virtue ; Where patience , honour , sweet humanity , Calm fortitude , take root and strongly flourish . Somerville . Butler , Hud . Mallet , Alfred . Mal . Alfr . ADVERSITY - ADVICE ...
Page 18
... virtue's aroma its pathway perfume , Unblest is the freedom and dreary the flight , That but wanders to ruin and wantons to blight ! America ! half brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every land ; Greater than thee ...
... virtue's aroma its pathway perfume , Unblest is the freedom and dreary the flight , That but wanders to ruin and wantons to blight ! America ! half brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every land ; Greater than thee ...
Page 19
... virtue ; But that be their own praise : Nor will I borrow merit from the dead , Myself an undeserver . What can ennoble sots , or slaves , or cowards ? Rowe . Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.Pope , E.M.iv.215 . He stands for ...
... virtue ; But that be their own praise : Nor will I borrow merit from the dead , Myself an undeserver . What can ennoble sots , or slaves , or cowards ? Rowe . Alas ! not all the blood of all the Howards.Pope , E.M.iv.215 . He stands for ...
Page 28
... Virtue in distress , and vice in triumph , Make Atheists of mankind . Atheist , use thine eyes , And having viewed the order of the skies , Think , if thou canst , that matter blindly hurl'd Without a guide , should frame the wondrous ...
... Virtue in distress , and vice in triumph , Make Atheists of mankind . Atheist , use thine eyes , And having viewed the order of the skies , Think , if thou canst , that matter blindly hurl'd Without a guide , should frame the wondrous ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
Aaron Hill Addison bear beauty Ben Jonson bliss brave breast breath bright Butler Byron charms Churchill clouds Cowper death deeds doth dream Dryden earth Ebenezer Elliott Eliza Cook eyes fair fame fate fear flowers fools fortune Giaour give glory gold Goldsmith grace grave grief happy hast hate hath heart heaven Herrick Honest Man's Fortune honour hope hour Hudibras human Joanna Baillie Johnson king L'Allegro Lalla Rookh light live looks Lord Love's LOVERS Macb man's mankind MARRIAGE Milton mind Moore nature ne'er never night o'er pain passion peace Pindar pleasure Pope praise rich shine sigh smile Sophonisba sorrow soul spirit sweet Tamerlane tears thee There's things Thomson thou art thought tongue Troil truth Twill VIII virtue wind wise words wretch Young youth