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"In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong."
William Collins / Ode to Simplicity.
Ode to Simplicity.
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"Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell."
William Collins / Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5.
Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5.
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"How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd!"
William Collins / Ode written in the year 1746.
Ode written in the year 1746.
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"By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!"
William Collins / Ode written in the year 1746.
Ode written in the year 1746.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung."
William Collins / The Passions. Line 1.
The Passions. Line 1.
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"Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired."
William Collins / The Passions. Line 10.
The Passions. Line 10.
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"'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild."
William Collins / The Passions. Line 28.
The Passions. Line 28.
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"In notes by distance made more sweet."
William Collins / The Passions. Line 60.
The Passions. Line 60.
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"In hollow murmurs died away."
William Collins / The Passions. Line 68.
The Passions. Line 68.
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"O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!"
William Collins / The Passions. Line 95.
The Passions. Line 95.
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"In yonder grave a Druid lies."
William Collins / Death of Thomson.
Death of Thomson.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain
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"Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art."
William Collins / To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.
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"Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed, Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead."
William Collins / Dirge in Cymbeline.
Dirge in Cymbeline.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 9th ed. (Little, Brown, 1905), public domain