Poetical Quotations from Chaucer to Tennyson: With Copious Indexes: Authors, 550; Subjects, 435; Quotations, 13,600 |
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... streams a various race supply : The silver eel , in shining volumes roll'd ; The yellow carp , in scales bedropp'd with ... stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait ; So angle we for Beatrice . SHAKSPEARE . Let others freeze with ...
... streams a various race supply : The silver eel , in shining volumes roll'd ; The yellow carp , in scales bedropp'd with ... stream And greedily devour the treacherous bait ; So angle we for Beatrice . SHAKSPEARE . Let others freeze with ...
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... stream from mountains pours along . COWLEY . All the wide extended sky , And all the harmonious worlds on high , And Virgil's sacred work shall die . Sidney , warbler of poetic prose . COWLEY . COWPER : Task . I hasten to our own ; nor ...
... stream from mountains pours along . COWLEY . All the wide extended sky , And all the harmonious worlds on high , And Virgil's sacred work shall die . Sidney , warbler of poetic prose . COWLEY . COWPER : Task . I hasten to our own ; nor ...
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... stream , should never water weeds . WALLER . Not content to see That others write as carelessly as he . PRIOR . Choose an author as you choose a friend . PRIOR . The privilege that ancient poets claim , Now turn'd to license by too just ...
... stream , should never water weeds . WALLER . Not content to see That others write as carelessly as he . PRIOR . Choose an author as you choose a friend . PRIOR . The privilege that ancient poets claim , Now turn'd to license by too just ...
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... stream ; None can record their heav'nly praise so well As Helen , in whose eyes ten thousand cupids dwell . DRYDEN . Old as I am , for ladies ' love unfit , The pow'r of beauty I remember yet . DRYDEN . Few admired the native red and ...
... stream ; None can record their heav'nly praise so well As Helen , in whose eyes ten thousand cupids dwell . DRYDEN . Old as I am , for ladies ' love unfit , The pow'r of beauty I remember yet . DRYDEN . Few admired the native red and ...
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... stream , and stain'd the ground . DRYDEN . Our phoenix queen was there pourtray'd too bright ; Beauty alone could beauty take so right . DRYDEN . Beauty a monarch is , Which kingly power magnificently proves By crowds of slaves , and ...
... stream , and stain'd the ground . DRYDEN . Our phoenix queen was there pourtray'd too bright ; Beauty alone could beauty take so right . DRYDEN . Beauty a monarch is , Which kingly power magnificently proves By crowds of slaves , and ...
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ADDISON ANNE BRADSTREET beauty BEN JONSON birds BLACKMORE bless bliss breast breath bright BYRON charms Childe Harold clouds coursers COWLEY COWPER dark death delight DENHAM doth dreams DRYDEN earth eternal ev'n ev'ry eyes fair fame fate fear flowers fools gentle give glory golden grace grief happy hast hath heart heaven honour hope hour Hudibras ISAAC WATTS JOANNA BAILLIE king light live look Lord MILTON mind morning muse N. P. WILLIS nature ne'er never Night Thoughts numbers nymph o'er pain passion peace pleasure POPE pow'r praise pride PRIOR rich ROSCOMMON round shade SHAKSPEARE shine sigh sing sleep smile soft song sorrow soul SPENSER spirit spring stars stream sweet SWIFT tears thee thine things THOMSON trees truth virtue voice WALLER WALTER HARTE weep wind wings wise woman words YOUNG youth РОРЕ