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The rose is fragrant, but it fades in time: The violet sweet, but quickly past the prime: White lilies hang their heads, and soon decay, And white snow in minutes melts away. - Trans. from Theocritus--The Despairing Lover (l. 57) [Flowers] All delays are dangerous in war. - Tyrannic Love (act I, sc. 1) [War] Pains of love be sweeter far Than all other pleasures are. - Tyrannic Love (act IV, sc. 1) [Love] We spirits have just such natures We had for all the world, when human creatures; And, therefore, I, that was an actress here, Play all my tricks in hell, a goblin there. - Tyrannic Love (epilogue) [Hell] Three poets in three distant ages born, Greece, Italy, and England did adorn. The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd; The next, in majesty; in both, the last. The force of nature could no further go; To make a third, she join'd the former two. - Under Mr. Milton's Picture (Homer, Virgil, Milton) [Milton, John : Poets] Above any Greek or Roman name. - Upon the Death of Lord Hastings (l. 76) [Names] What all your sex desire is Sovereignty. - Wife of Bath [Women] 'Tis Fate that flings the dice, And as she flings Of kings makes peasants, And of peasants kings. - Works (vol. XV, p. 103) [Fate] Displaying page 21 of 21 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 [21]
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