A Collection of Familiar Quotations: With Complete Indices of Authors and SubjectsJ. Bartlett, 1858 - 446 pages |
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... divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine . The Church Porch . A verse may find him who a sermon flies , And turn delight into a sacrifice . Dare to be true , nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs ...
... divine ; Who sweeps a room as for thy laws Makes that and the action fine . The Church Porch . A verse may find him who a sermon flies , And turn delight into a sacrifice . Dare to be true , nothing can need a lie ; A fault which needs ...
Page 108
... Divine Poesy . The soul's dark cottage , battered and decayed , * Lets in new light through chinks that time has made . Stronger by weakness , wiser men become , As they draw near to their eternal home . Upon the death of the Lord ...
... Divine Poesy . The soul's dark cottage , battered and decayed , * Lets in new light through chinks that time has made . Stronger by weakness , wiser men become , As they draw near to their eternal home . Upon the death of the Lord ...
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... divine . Book iii . Line 495 . Since called The Paradise of Fools , to few unknown . Book iv . Line 34 . At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads . Paradise Lost - Continued . Book iv . Line 76 114 FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS .
... divine . Book iii . Line 495 . Since called The Paradise of Fools , to few unknown . Book iv . Line 34 . At whose sight all the stars Hide their diminished heads . Paradise Lost - Continued . Book iv . Line 76 114 FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS .
Page 121
... divine , enchanting ravishment ? Line 249 . How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence , through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled . Who , as Line 256 . And lap it in ...
... divine , enchanting ravishment ? Line 249 . How sweetly did they float upon the wings Of silence , through the empty - vaulted night , At every fall smoothing the raven down Of darkness till it smiled . Who , as Line 256 . And lap it in ...
Page 122
... divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed , as dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lute , 8 And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets , Where no crude surfeit reigns . Line 560 . I was all ear , And took in strains that might ...
... divine philosophy ! Not harsh and crabbed , as dull fools suppose ; But musical as is Apollo's lute , 8 And a perpetual feast of nectared sweets , Where no crude surfeit reigns . Line 560 . I was all ear , And took in strains that might ...
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Absalom and Achitophel Anatomy of Melancholy angels BARTON BOOTH beauty Beilby Porteus blessed breath Canto child CORINTHIANS dear death Devil divine doth dream earth ECCLESIASTES Epistle Epitaph Essay fair faith Farewell fear fools give glory grave Hamlet-Continued hand happy hast hath heart heaven honor hope Hudibras ISAAC WATTS ISAIAH JOHN Julius Cæsar KING HENRY Lady light Line lips live look Lord lost love thee Macbeth man's MATTHEW MATTHEW PRIOR melancholy mind morning nature ne'er never Night Note numbers o'er Paradise Paradise Lost passion pleasure poor praise Prologue PROVERBS PSALM RICHARD Richard III ROMANS SAMUEL shining sigh sleep smile Song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit Stanza stars sweet tale tears There's things THOMAS thou thought to-morrow Tom Brown truth unto virtue wind wise woman words youth