Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes: Authors, 550; Subjects, 435; Quotations, 13,600 |
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... MILTON . Till length of years , And sedentary numbness , craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure . MILTON . To what can I be useful , wherein serve , But to sit idle on the household hearth , A burd'nous drone , to visitants a ...
... MILTON . Till length of years , And sedentary numbness , craze my limbs To a contemptible old age obscure . MILTON . To what can I be useful , wherein serve , But to sit idle on the household hearth , A burd'nous drone , to visitants a ...
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... MILTON . Nor are the ways alike in all Or if the earlier season lead How to ingraff , how to inoculate . To the tann'd haycock in the mead . MAY . MILTON . Fires oft are good on barren earshes made , With crackling flames to burn the ...
... MILTON . Nor are the ways alike in all Or if the earlier season lead How to ingraff , how to inoculate . To the tann'd haycock in the mead . MAY . MILTON . Fires oft are good on barren earshes made , With crackling flames to burn the ...
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... MILTON . Bad men boast With joy th ' ambitious youth his mother heard , And , eager , for the journey soon prepared ; He longs the world beneath him to survey , To guide the chariot , and to give the day . DRYDEN . Why does Antony dream ...
... MILTON . Bad men boast With joy th ' ambitious youth his mother heard , And , eager , for the journey soon prepared ; He longs the world beneath him to survey , To guide the chariot , and to give the day . DRYDEN . Why does Antony dream ...
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... MILTON . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and th ' excess Of glory obscured . MILTON . Him long of old Thou didst debel , and down from heaven cast , With all his army .
... MILTON . His form had yet not lost All her original brightness , nor appear'd Less than archangel ruin'd , and th ' excess Of glory obscured . MILTON . Him long of old Thou didst debel , and down from heaven cast , With all his army .
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... MILTON : Comus . APPLAUSE . Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention ; And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause . MILTON . Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ...
... MILTON : Comus . APPLAUSE . Scylla wept , And chid her barking waves into attention ; And fell Charybdis murmur'd soft applause . MILTON . Nations unborn your mighty names shall sound , And worlds applaud that must not yet be found ...
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