Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson |
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... never in his mind . SIR J. DENHAM . Of Age's avarice I cannot see What colour , ground , or reason there can be ; Is it not folly , when the way we ride Is short , for a long journey to provide ? SIR J. DENHAM . Not from grey hairs ...
... never in his mind . SIR J. DENHAM . Of Age's avarice I cannot see What colour , ground , or reason there can be ; Is it not folly , when the way we ride Is short , for a long journey to provide ? SIR J. DENHAM . Not from grey hairs ...
Page 35
... never at heart's ease , Whilst they behold a greater than themselves . SHAKSPEARE . Thou wouldst be great , Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it . SHAKSPEARE . Ill - weaved ambition , how much art thou ...
... never at heart's ease , Whilst they behold a greater than themselves . SHAKSPEARE . Thou wouldst be great , Art not without ambition ; but without The illness should attend it . SHAKSPEARE . Ill - weaved ambition , how much art thou ...
Page 41
... never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent . DRYDEN . No hammers fell , no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung ; Majestic silence ! HEBER : Palestine . Let my due feet never fail To walk ...
... never is content Till the last farthing is in structure spent . DRYDEN . No hammers fell , no ponderous axes rung ; Like some tall palm the mystic fabric sprung ; Majestic silence ! HEBER : Palestine . Let my due feet never fail To walk ...
Page 48
... never treads in buskins here , Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear . DRYDEN . In easy dialogues is Fletcher's praise : He moved the mind , but had not pow'r to raise . DRYDEN . When did his muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As ...
... never treads in buskins here , Nor greater Jonson dares in socks appear . DRYDEN . In easy dialogues is Fletcher's praise : He moved the mind , but had not pow'r to raise . DRYDEN . When did his muse from Fletcher scenes purloin , As ...
Page 57
... never read . POPE . A dire dilemma , either way I'm sped ; If foes they write , if friends they read , me dead . POPE . The dog - star rages ; nay , ' tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out ; Fire in each eye , and papers ...
... never read . POPE . A dire dilemma , either way I'm sped ; If foes they write , if friends they read , me dead . POPE . The dog - star rages ; nay , ' tis past a doubt All Bedlam or Parnassus is let out ; Fire in each eye , and papers ...
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