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And what the actor could effect, The scholar could presage. - [Acting] Beauty is a beam from heaven that dazzles blind our reason. - [Beauty] Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smiles. - [Beauty] But can the noble mind for ever brood, The willing victim of a weary mood, On heartless cares that squander life away, And cloud young Genius bright'ning into day? - [Care] Cold in the dust this perished heart may lie, but that which warmed it once shall never die. - [Immortality] Coming events cast their shadows before. - [Proverbs] I alone am left on earth! To whom nor relative nor blood remains, No! not a kindred drop that runs in human veins. - [Desolation] I am convinced that there is no man that knows life well, and remembers all the incidents of his past experience who would accept it again; we are certainly here to punish precedent sins. - [Life] In the human breast two master-passions cannot coexist. - [Passion] Let us do or die. - [Action] Like angel visits, few and far between. - [Angels] Melt, and dispel, ye spectre doubts that roll Cimmerian darkness o'er the parting soul. - [Darkness] One could take down a book from a shelf ten tines more wise and witty than almost any man's conversation. Bacon is wiser, Swift more humorous, than any person one is likely to meet with; but they cannot chime in with the exact frame of thought in which we happen to take them down from our shelves. Therein lies the luxury of conversation: and when a living speaker does not yield us that luxury, he becomes only a book on two legs. - [Conversation] Sorrow returned with the dawning of morn, and the voice in my dreaming ear melted away. - [Dreams] 'T is the sunset of life gives us mystical lore. - [Age] The stormy music of the drum. - [Music] While memory watches o'er the sad review of joys that faded like the morning dew. - [Memory] Whose sun-bright summit mingles with the sky. - [Mountains] Without our hopes, without our fears, Without the home that plighted love endears, Without the smile from partial beauty won, O! what were man?--a world without a sun. - [Man] Without the smile from partial beauty won, O, what were man! a world without a sun! - [Beauty] Heaven gives our years of fading strength Indemnifying fleetness; And those of Youth a seeming length, Proportioned to their sweetness. - A Thought Suggested by the New Year [Life] The more we live, more brief appear Our life's succeeding stages; A day to childhood seems a year, And years like passing ages. - A Thought Suggested by the New Year [Time] Drink to her that each loves best, And if you nurse a flame That's told but to her mutual breast, We will not ask her name. - A Toast [Toasts] There was silence deep as death; And the boldest held his breath, For a time. - Battle of the Baltic [Silence] I'll bid the hyacinth to blow, I'll teach my grotto green to be; And sing my true love, all below The holly bower and myrtle tree. - Caroline (pt. I) [Love] Displaying page 1 of 4 for this author: Next >> [1] 2 3 4
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