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"Farewell! if ever fondest prayer For other's weal avail'd on high, Mine will not all be lost in air, But waft thy name beyond the sky."
Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I only know we loved in vain; I only feel--farewell! farewell!"
Farewell! if ever fondest Prayer.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years."
When we Two parted.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Fools are my theme, let satire be my song."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 6.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"'T is pleasant, sure, to see one's name in print; A book 's a book, although there 's nothing in 't."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 51.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"With just enough of learning to misquote."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 66.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"As soon Seek roses in December, ice in June; Hope constancy in wind, or corn in chaff; Believe a woman or an epitaph, Or any other thing that 's false, before You trust in critics."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 75.
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"Perverts the Prophets and purloins the Psalms."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 326.
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"Oh, Amos Cottle! Phoebus! what a name!"
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 399.
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"So the struck eagle, stretch'd upon the plain, No more through rolling clouds to soar again, View'd his own feather on the fatal dart, And wing'd the shaft that quiver'd in his heart."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 826.
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"Yet truth will sometimes lend her noblest fires, And decorate the verse herself inspires: This fact, in virtue's name, let Crabbe attest,-- Though Nature's sternest painter, yet the best."
English Bards and Scotch Reviewers. Line 839.
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"Maid of Athens, ere we part, Give, oh give me back my heart!"
Maid of Athens.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Had sigh'd to many, though he loved but one."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"If ancient tales say true, nor wrong these holy men."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 7.
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"Maidens, like moths, are ever caught by glare, And Mammon wins his way where seraphs might despair."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 9.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Such partings break the heart they fondly hope to heal."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 10.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Might shake the saintship of an anchorite."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Adieu! adieu! my native shore Fades o'er the waters blue."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 13.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My native land, good night!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 13.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"O Christ! it is a goodly sight to see What Heaven hath done for this delicious land."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 15.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"In hope to merit heaven by making earth a hell."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 20.
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"By Heaven! it is a splendid sight to see For one who hath no friend, no brother there."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 40.
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"Still from the fount of joy's delicious springs Some bitter o'er the flowers its bubbling venom flings."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 82.
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"War, war is still the cry,--"war even to the knife!""
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto i. Stanza 86.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Gone, glimmering through the dream of things that were."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A schoolboy's tale, the wonder of an hour!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Dim with the mist of years, gray flits the shade of power."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The dome of thought, the palace of the soul."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 6.
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"Ah, happy years! once more who would not be a boy?"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 23.
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"None are so desolate but something dear, Dearer than self, possesses or possess'd A thought, and claims the homage of a tear."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 24.
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"But 'midst the crowd, the hum, the shock of men, To hear, to see, to feel, and to possess, And roam along, the world's tired denizen, With none who bless us, none whom we can bless."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 26.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Coop'd in their winged, sea-girt citadel."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 28.
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"Fair Greece! sad relic of departed worth! Immortal, though no more! though fallen, great!"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 73.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Hereditary bondsmen! know ye not, Who would be free, themselves must strike the blow?"
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 76.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A thousand years scarce serve to form a state: An hour may lay it in the dust."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 84.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Land of lost gods and godlike men."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 85.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where'er we tread, 't is haunted, holy ground."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 88.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Age shakes Athena's tower, but spares gray Marathon."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto ii. Stanza 88.
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"Ada! sole daughter of my house and heart."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 1.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Once more upon the waters! yet once more! And the waves bound beneath me as a steed That knows his rider."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 2.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"I am as a weed Flung from the rock, on Ocean's foam to sail Where'er the surge may sweep, the tempest's breath prevail."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 2.
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"He who grown aged in this world of woe, In deeds, not years, piercing the depths of life, So that no wonder waits him."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Years steal Fire from the mind as vigour from the limb, And life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 8.
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"There was a sound of revelry by night, And Belgium's capital had gather'd then Her beauty and her chivalry, and bright The lamps shone o'er fair women and brave men. A thousand hearts beat happily; and when Music arose with its voluptuous swell, Soft eyes look'd love to eyes which spake again, And all went merry as a marriage bell."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 21.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"But hush! hark! a deep sound strikes like a rising knell! Did ye not hear it?--No! 't was but the wind, Or the car rattling o'er the stony street. On with the dance! let joy be unconfined; No sleep till morn, when Youth and Pleasure meet To chase the glowing hours with flying feet."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 22.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"He rush'd into the field, and foremost fighting fell."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 23.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And there was mounting in hot haste."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 25.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Or whispering with white lips, "The foe! They come! they come!""
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 25.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Grieving, if aught inanimate e'er grieves, Over the unreturning brave."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 27.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Battle's magnificently stern array."
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 28.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain