A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 511 . Affliction is the good man's shining scene ; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; As night to stars , woe lustre gives to man . 77 Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 406 . He went ...
... Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 511 . Affliction is the good man's shining scene ; Prosperity conceals his brightest ray ; As night to stars , woe lustre gives to man . 77 Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 406 . He went ...
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... Young : Night Thoughts . Night v Line 661 . We see time's furrows on another's brow . How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 97 Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 627 . O , sir ! I must not tell my age . They say women and ...
... Young : Night Thoughts . Night v Line 661 . We see time's furrows on another's brow . How few themselves in that just mirror see ! 97 Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 627 . O , sir ! I must not tell my age . They say women and ...
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... Young : Love of Fame . Satire vii . Line 175 . 125 Fame is the shade of immortality , And in itself a shadow . Soon as caught , Contemn'd , it shrinks to nothing in the grasp . 126 Young : Night Thoughts . Night vii . Line 355 . Dream ...
... Young : Love of Fame . Satire vii . Line 175 . 125 Fame is the shade of immortality , And in itself a shadow . Soon as caught , Contemn'd , it shrinks to nothing in the grasp . 126 Young : Night Thoughts . Night vii . Line 355 . Dream ...
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... Young : Night Thoughts . Night iii . Line 215 . ASTRONOMERS . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights , That give a name to every fixed star , Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what ...
... Young : Night Thoughts . Night iii . Line 215 . ASTRONOMERS . These earthly godfathers of heaven's lights , That give a name to every fixed star , Have no more profit of their shining nights , Than those that walk , and wot not what ...
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... Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 772 . By night an atheist half believes a God . 220 Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 176 . Forth from his dark and lonely hiding - place , ( Portentous sight ! ) the owlet Atheism ...
... Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 772 . By night an atheist half believes a God . 220 Young : Night Thoughts . Night v . Line 176 . Forth from his dark and lonely hiding - place , ( Portentous sight ! ) the owlet Atheism ...
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