A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
From inside the book
Results 1-5 of 93
Page 4
... Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 21 . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . 30 Fletcher : On an Honest Man's Fortune . Line 35 . Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their ...
... Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 21 . Our acts our angels are , or good or ill , Our fatal shadows that walk by us still . 30 Fletcher : On an Honest Man's Fortune . Line 35 . Only the actions of the just Smell sweet and blossom in their ...
Page 13
... Essay on Man . Epis . ii . Line 199 . Oh , sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . 124 ...
... Essay on Man . Epis . ii . Line 199 . Oh , sons of earth ! attempt ye still to rise , By mountains pil'd on mountains , to the skies ? Heaven still with laughter the vain toil surveys , And buries madmen in the heaps they raise . 124 ...
Page 15
... Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 215 . He stands for fame on his forefathers ' feet , By heraldry , proved valiant or discreet ! 138 ANGELS . Young : Love of Fame . Satire i . Line 123 . Heaven bless thee ! Thou hast the sweetest face I ...
... Essay on Man . Epis . iv . Line 215 . He stands for fame on his forefathers ' feet , By heraldry , proved valiant or discreet ! 138 ANGELS . Young : Love of Fame . Satire i . Line 123 . Heaven bless thee ! Thou hast the sweetest face I ...
Page 21
... Essays . Epis . iii . Line 15 . Pope : Mor . Essays . Epis . iii . Line 1 . Who shall decide when doctors disagree , And soundest casuists doubt , like you and me . 197 Who , too deep for his hearers , still went on refining , And ...
... Essays . Epis . iii . Line 15 . Pope : Mor . Essays . Epis . iii . Line 1 . Who shall decide when doctors disagree , And soundest casuists doubt , like you and me . 197 Who , too deep for his hearers , still went on refining , And ...
Page 27
... Essay on Poetry . Sometimes an author , fond of his own thought , Pursues its object till ' tis overwrought : If he describes a house , he shows the face , And after , walks you round from place to place ; Here is a vista , there the ...
... Essay on Poetry . Sometimes an author , fond of his own thought , Pursues its object till ' tis overwrought : If he describes a house , he shows the face , And after , walks you round from place to place ; Here is a vista , there the ...
Other editions - View all
Common terms and phrases
beauty breath Butler Byron Cæsar Canto Churchill clouds Cowper dark death Don Juan doth Dream Dryden earth Epis eyes Fables fair fear Festus flowers fool George Eliot give glory Goldsmith grace grave grief Hamlet Harold hast hath heart heaven Henry Vaughan Henry VI Henry VIII honor hour Hudibras Jean Ingelow Joanna Baillie King King Lear kiss light Line live Longfellow Lost Love of Fame Love's Macbeth Milton mind Moral Essays nature ne'er never Night Thoughts o'er Othello pain peace Pope praise Proverbial Phil Richard Richard III Robert Browning Satire Seasons Shaks shine sigh silent sleep smile song Sonnet sorrow soul spirit stars sweet T. B. Aldrich tears Tennyson thee thine things Thomson thou art tongue truth Venice virtue Whittier William Cullen Bryant wind wings wise woman words Young