A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American PoetsT.Y. Crowell & Company, 1888 - 761 pages |
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... stars in winter nights , with gloom and void : In fine , sagacity to discover the gross and innum- erable errors of the press ; fidelity , not to obtrude the officious alterations of an editor , under the pretence of restoring the sense ...
... stars in winter nights , with gloom and void : In fine , sagacity to discover the gross and innum- erable errors of the press ; fidelity , not to obtrude the officious alterations of an editor , under the pretence of restoring the sense ...
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... stars , woe lustre gives to man . 77 Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 406 . He went like one that hath been stunn'd , And is of sense forlorn : A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn . 78 AFFRONTS . Coleridge : Ancient ...
... stars , woe lustre gives to man . 77 Young : Night Thoughts . Night ix . Line 406 . He went like one that hath been stunn'd , And is of sense forlorn : A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn . 78 AFFRONTS . Coleridge : Ancient ...
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... Star'd on each other , and look'd deadly pale . 108 AMBER . Shaks .: Richard III . Act iii . Sc . 7 . Pretty ! in amber ... stars , But in ourselves , that we are underlings . 113 Shaks .: Jul . Cæsar . Act i . Sc . 2 . I have no spur To ...
... Star'd on each other , and look'd deadly pale . 108 AMBER . Shaks .: Richard III . Act iii . Sc . 7 . Pretty ! in amber ... stars , But in ourselves , that we are underlings . 113 Shaks .: Jul . Cæsar . Act i . Sc . 2 . I have no spur To ...
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... stars , and strings . 132 Peter Pindar : The Rights of Kings . Ode ix . America ! half brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every land ; Greater than thee have lost their seat Greater scarce none can stand . 133 ...
... stars , and strings . 132 Peter Pindar : The Rights of Kings . Ode ix . America ! half brother of the world ! With something good and bad of every land ; Greater than thee have lost their seat Greater scarce none can stand . 133 ...
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... stars ! And thou , pale moon ! turn paler at the sound . 217 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 ...
... stars ! And thou , pale moon ! turn paler at the sound . 217 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 ...
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