A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... dead but fifty - three years . These collections , though made in the Golden Age of English Poetry , are dreary reading : one reason being that their worthy editors , Bodenham and Allot , were didactic dullards ; another , that they ...
... dead but fifty - three years . These collections , though made in the Golden Age of English Poetry , are dreary reading : one reason being that their worthy editors , Bodenham and Allot , were didactic dullards ; another , that they ...
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... Dead on the hem of May . 187 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama . Sc . viii . Ah , month that comes with rainbows crowned , And golden shadows dressed - Constant to her inconstancy , And faithful to unrest . 188 Come , loveliest season of ...
... Dead on the hem of May . 187 Alexander Smith : A Life Drama . Sc . viii . Ah , month that comes with rainbows crowned , And golden shadows dressed - Constant to her inconstancy , And faithful to unrest . 188 Come , loveliest season of ...
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... dead red leaves , and will not let him shun The day , though bough with bough be overrun . But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation . 265 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Autumn Idleness . Summer is gone on swallows ' wings ...
... dead red leaves , and will not let him shun The day , though bough with bough be overrun . But with a blessing every glade receives High salutation . 265 Dante Gabriel Rossetti : Autumn Idleness . Summer is gone on swallows ' wings ...
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... dead , And see worms of the earth and fowls of the air , And beasts of the forest , all gathering there ; All regarding man as their prey , All rejoicing in his decay . 302 Byron : Siege of Cor . St. 17 . Hark to the trump , and the ...
... dead , And see worms of the earth and fowls of the air , And beasts of the forest , all gathering there ; All regarding man as their prey , All rejoicing in his decay . 302 Byron : Siege of Cor . St. 17 . Hark to the trump , and the ...
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... dead within an hour . 322 Shaks .: Pass . Pilgrim . St. 13 . Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator . 323 Shaks .: R. of Lucrece . St. 5 . Sits here like Beauty's child , whom nature gat For men to see ...
... dead within an hour . 322 Shaks .: Pass . Pilgrim . St. 13 . Beauty itself doth of itself persuade The eyes of men without an orator . 323 Shaks .: R. of Lucrece . St. 5 . Sits here like Beauty's child , whom nature gat For men to see ...
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