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HANDY DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS

COMPILED BY GEORGE W. POWERS

NEW YORK THOMAS Y. CROWELL & CO. PUBLISHERS

PREFACE

G.W.P.

DORCHESTER, MASS., July, 1901.

HANDY DICTIONARY OF POETICAL QUOTATIONS.

Ring out, wild bells, to the wild sky!

Ring out old shapes of foul disease, Ring out the narrowing lust of gold; Ring out the thousand wars of old, Ring in the thousand years of peace.

There St. John mingles with my friendly bowl, The feast of reason and the flow of soul. 219 POPE: Satire i., Line 6.

The coward never on himself relies, But to an equal for assistance flies. 428 CRABBE: Tale iii., Line 84.

You say, you nothing owe; and so I say: He only owes, who something hath to pay. 505 MARTIAL: , ii., 3.

Waller was smooth; but Dryden taught to join The varying verse, the full resounding line, The long majestic march, and energy divine. 589 POPE: Satire v., Line 267.

For I who hold sage Homer's rule the best, Welcome the coming, speed the going guest. 855 POPE: Satire ii., Line 159.

Peace hath her victories, No less renowned than war. 1320 MILTON: Sonnet xvi.

Sacred to ridicule his whole life long, And the sad burden of some merry song. 1514 POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

The rose looks fair, but fairer we it deem, For that sweet odor which doth in it live. 1533 SHAKS.: Sonnet liv.

For virtue's self may too much zeal be had; The worst of madmen is a saint run mad. 1558 POPE: Satire iv., Line 26.

Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a-muck, and tilt at all I meet; I only wear it in a land of Hectors, Thieves, supercargoes, sharpers, and directors. 1574 POPE: Satire i., Line 69.

And simple truth miscall'd simplicity, And captive good attending captive ill. 1698 SHAKS.: Sonnet lxvi.

Talk what you will of taste, my friend, you'll find Two of a face as soon as of a mind. 1863 POPE: Satire vi., Line 268.

Whoe'er offends at some unlucky time Slides into verse, and hitches in a rhyme. 1996 POPE: Satire i., Bk. ii., Line 76.

Years following years, steal something every day; At last they steal us from ourselves away. 2127 POPE: Satire vi., Line 72.

Addison, Joseph. b. Milston, Wiltshire, Eng., 1672; d. London, Eng., 1719. --50, 393, 556, 629, 700, 713, 749, 766, 925, 969, 1078, 1583, 1814, 2091.

Akenside, Mark. b. Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1721; d. London, Eng., 1770. --1865, 1938.

Aldrich, James. b. New York, 1810; d 1856. --1481.

Aldrich, Thomas Bailey. b. Portsmouth, N.H., 1836; d. 1907. --238, 407, 771, 2009.

Allen, Elizabeth Akers. b. Strong, Me., 1832; .... --313.

Armstrong, John. b. Liddesdale, Eng, 1709; d. London, Eng., 1779. --1864.

Arnold, Sir Edwin. b. London, 1832; d. 1904. --498.

Arnold, Matthew. b. Laleham, Middlesex, Eng., 1822; d. Eng, 1888. --1537, 2103.

Aytoun, William Edmondstoune. b. Fifeshire, 1813; d. 1865. --1735.

Bailey, Philip James. b. Nottingham, Eng, 1816; d. 1902. --43, 79, 322, 531, 614, 746, 967, 1349, 1770, 1833.

Baillie, Joanna. b. Lanarkshire, Scot, 1762; d. Hampstead, Eng., 1851. --198.

Barbauld, Anna Laetitia. b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1743; d. 1825. --782, 1717, 2032.

Barrington, George. b. Maynooth, Ireland, 1755; d. New South Wales at a great age. --413.

Baxter, Richard. b. Rowdon, Shropshire, Eng., 1615; d. 1691. --1375.

Bayly, Thomas Haynes. b. near Bath, Eng., 1797; d. 1839. --218, 1335.

Beattie, James. b. Laurencekirk Scot., 1735; d. Aberdeen, Scot., 1803. --60, 485, 670, 837.

Beaumont and Fletcher. Beaumont, Francis. b. Leicestershire, Eng., 1586; d. 1615. Fletcher, John. b. Rye, Eng., 1576; d. London, Eng., 1625. --19, 22, 204, 408, 559, 598, 1154, 1231, 1568, 1861, 1917, 2042.

Benserade, Isaac de. b. in Upper Normandy, 1612; d. 1691. --164.

Blair, Robert. b. Edinburgh, Scot., 1699; d. Athelstaneford, Scot., 1747. --85, 819, 836, 1651.

Booth, Barton. b. Lancashire, Eng, 1681; d. 1733. --1354.

Boyesen, Hjalmar Hjorth. b. Fredericksvern, Norway, 1848; d. 1895. --1028, 1162.

Bramston, James. b. England; d. 1744. --875.

Brown, John. b. England, 1715; d. 1766. --49, 431.

Brown, Tom. b. Shropshire, Eng., 1663; d. 1704. --562.

Browning, Elizabeth Barrett. b. London, Eng., 1809; d. Florence, Italy, 1861. --160, 196, 650, 778, 848, 887, 1006, 1039, 1073, 1296, 1373, 1659, 1709, 1733, 1968, 2104.

Browning, Robert. b. Camberwell, Eng., 1812; d. 1889. --65, 129, 251, 474, 519, 681, 747, 865, 993, 994, 996, 1086, 1123, 1188, 1222, 1228, 1312, 1344, 1351, 1450, 1667, 1710, 1822, 1825, 1901, 1950, 1957, 1967.

Bryant, William Cullen. b. Cummington, Mass., 1794; d. New York, 1878. --234, 240, 317, 627, 697, 725, 758, 851, 906, 1155, 1246, 1277, 1321, 1445, 1604, 1663, 1793, 1819, 1951, 1962, 2055, 2063, 2128.

Bulwer, Edward George Earle Lytton . b. London, Eng., 1803; d. Torquay, France, 1873. --1323.

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