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""You are old, Father William," the young man cried, "The few locks which are left you are gray; You are hale, Father William, a hearty old man,-- Now tell me the reason I pray.""
The Old Man's Comforts, and how he gained them.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The march of intellect."
Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society. Vol. ii. p. 360. The Doctor, Chap. Extraordinary.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The laws are with us, and God on our side."
On the Rise and Progress of Popular Disaffection (1817), Essay viii. Vol. ii. p. 107.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Agreed to differ."
Life of Wesley.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"My days among the dead are passed; Around me I behold, Where'er these casual eyes are cast, The mighty minds of old; My never-failing friends are they, With whom I converse day by day."
Occasional Pieces. xxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"How does the water Come down at Lodore?"
The Cataract of Lodore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"So I told them in rhyme, For of rhymes I had store."
The Cataract of Lodore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Through moss and through brake."
The Cataract of Lodore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"A sight to delight in."
The Cataract of Lodore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And so never ending, but always descending."
The Cataract of Lodore.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"And this way the water comes down at Lodore."
The Cataract of Lodore.
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"From his brimstone bed, at break of day, A-walking the Devil is gone, To look at his little snug farm of the World, And see how his stock went on."
The Devil's Walk. Stanza 1.
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"He passed a cottage with a double coach-house,-- A cottage of gentility; And he owned with a grin, That his favourite sin Is pride that apes humility."
The Devil's Walk. Stanza 8.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Where Washington hath left His awful memory A light for after times!"
Ode written during the War with America, 1814.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"How beautiful is night! A dewy freshness fills the silent air; No mist obscures; nor cloud, or speck, nor stain, Breaks the serene of heaven: In full-orbed glory, yonder moon divine Rolls through the dark blue depths; Beneath her steady ray The desert circle spreads Like the round ocean, girdled with the sky. How beautiful is night!"
Thalaba. Book i. Stanza 1.
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""But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 't was a famous victory.""
The Battle of Blenheim.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue."
Madoc in Wales. Part i. 5.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"What will not woman, gentle woman dare, When strong affection stirs her spirit up?"
Madoc in Wales. Part ii. 2.
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"And last of all an Admiral came, A terrible man with a terrible name,-- A name which you all know by sight very well, But which no one can speak, and no one can spell."
The March to Moscow. Stanza 8.
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"They sin who tell us love can die; With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. . . . . . Love is indestructible, Its holy flame forever burneth; From heaven it came, to heaven returneth. . . . . . It soweth here with toil and care, But the harvest-time of love is there."
The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. Stanza 10.
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"Oh, when a mother meets on high The babe she lost in infancy, Hath she not then for pains and fears, The day of woe, the watchful night, For all her sorrow, all her tears, An over-payment of delight?"
The Curse of Kehama. Canto x. Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"Thou hast been called, O sleep! the friend of woe; But 't is the happy that have called thee so."
The Curse of Kehama. Canto xv. Stanza 11.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
"The Satanic School."
Vision of Judgment. Original Preface.
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