A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets; Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added from American Authors
A Dictionary of Quotations from English and American Poets; Based Upon Bohn's Edition, Revised, Corrected, and Enlarged. Twelve Hundred Quotations Added from American Authors
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...thrilling joy repaid A long, long course of darkness, doubts, and fears--The heartsick faintness of the hope delay'd, The waste, the woe, the bloodshed, and the tears, That track'd with terror twenty rolling years. 3779 Scott: Lord of the Isles. Canto vl St. 408 PEA CE--PEDANTR Y. The moon is at her full, and, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ...thrilling joy repaid A long, long course of darkness, doubts, and fears--The heartsick faintness of the hope delay'd, The waste, the woe, the bloodshed, and the tears, That track'd with terror twenty rolling years. 3779 Scott: Lord of the Isles. Canto vl St. 408 PEA CE--PEDANTR Y. The moon is at her full, and, riding high, Floods the calm fields with light. The airs that hover in the summer sky Are all asleep to-night. There comes no voice from the great woodlands round That murmured all the day; Beneath the shadow of their boughs the ground Is not more still than they. 3780 William Cullen Bryant: The Tidcz Peace was on the earth and in the air. 3781 William Cullen Bryant: The Ages. St. 30 Brave minds, howe'er at war, are secret friends, Their generous discord with the battle ends; In peace they wonder whence dissension rose, And ask how souls so like could e'er be foes. 3782 Tickell: Prospect of Peace. Line 29 Mark! where his carnage and his conquests cease! He makes a solitude, and calls it--peace. 3783 Byron: Bride of Ab. Canto ii. St. 20 PEARL. A pearl may in a toad's head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell. 3784 Bunyan: Apology for his Book. Line 89 PEASANTRY--see Country Life. Ill fares the land, to hast'ning ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay: Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade--A breath can make them, as a breath has made: But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroy'd, can never be supplied. 3785 Goldsmith: Des. Village. Line 51. Cheerful, at morn, he wakes from short repose, Breasts the keen air, and carols as he goes. 3786 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 185. At night returning, ev'ry labor sped, He sits him down the monarch of a shed. 3787 Goldsmith: Traveller. Line 191....
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