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 PoetsSarah Josepha Buell Hale Claxton, Remsen & Haffelfinger, 1875 - 576 Seiten |
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... Pindar . Still one great clime , in full and free defiance , Yet rears her crest , unconquer'd and sublime , Above the far Atlantic ! she has taught Her Esau brethren that the haughty flag , The floating fence of Albion's feebler crag ...
... Pindar . Still one great clime , in full and free defiance , Yet rears her crest , unconquer'd and sublime , Above the far Atlantic ! she has taught Her Esau brethren that the haughty flag , The floating fence of Albion's feebler crag ...
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... Pindar . ANTIQUARY . They say he sits All day in contemplation of a statue With ne'er a nose , and dotes on the decays , With greater love than the self - lov'd Narcissus Did on his beauty : How shall I approach him ? Shakerly Marmyon's ...
... Pindar . ANTIQUARY . They say he sits All day in contemplation of a statue With ne'er a nose , and dotes on the decays , With greater love than the self - lov'd Narcissus Did on his beauty : How shall I approach him ? Shakerly Marmyon's ...
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... Pindar . The love of gold , that meanest rage , And latest folly of man's sinking age , Which , rarely venturing in the van of life , While nobler passions wage their heated strife , Comes skulking last with selfishness and fear , And ...
... Pindar . The love of gold , that meanest rage , And latest folly of man's sinking age , Which , rarely venturing in the van of life , While nobler passions wage their heated strife , Comes skulking last with selfishness and fear , And ...
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... Pindar . Yet some there are , of men I think the worst , Poor imps ! unhappy , if they can't be curst . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . And many more such pious scraps , To prove ( what we ' ve long prov'd perhaps ) That mad as Christians ...
... Pindar . Yet some there are , of men I think the worst , Poor imps ! unhappy , if they can't be curst . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . And many more such pious scraps , To prove ( what we ' ve long prov'd perhaps ) That mad as Christians ...
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... Pindar . In short , no dray - horse ever work'd so hard , From vaults to drag up hogshead , tun , or pipe , As this good priest , to drag , for small reward , The souls of sinners from the devil's gripe . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . Did ...
... Pindar . In short , no dray - horse ever work'd so hard , From vaults to drag up hogshead , tun , or pipe , As this good priest , to drag , for small reward , The souls of sinners from the devil's gripe . Dr. Wolcot's Peter Pindar . Did ...
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Bailey's Festus beauty blood bosom breast breath bright Butler's Hudibras 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 fools gentle Gentlemen of Verona Giaour glory grace 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 man's Merchant of Venice Milton's Paradise Lost mind nature ne'er never O. W. Holmes o'er Othello pain passion peace Pindar pleasure Poems Pope's pride proud 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 Timon of Athens tongue truth Venice virtue weep wind wretched Young's Night Thoughts youth