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Let old Timotheus yield the prize Or both divide the crown; He rais'd a mortal to the skies She drew an angel down. - Alexander's Feast (last st.) [Angels] The god-like hero sate On his imperial throne: His valiant peers were placed around, Their brows with roses and with myrtles bound (So should desert in arms be crowned). The lovely Thais by his side, Sate like a blooming Eastern bride In flower of youth and beauty's pride. Happy, happy, happy pair! None but the brave, None but the brave, None but the brave deserve the fair. - Alexander's Feast (st. 1) [Bravery] Deserted, at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth exposed he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. - Alexander's Feast (st. 4) [Ingratitude] Give, you gods, Give to your boy, your Caesar, The rattle of a globe to play withal, This gewgaw world, and put him cheaply off; I'll not be pleased with less than Cleopatra. - All for Love (act II, sc. 1) [Love] Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full of cravings too, and full as vain. - All for Love (act IV, sc. 1) [Man] Welcome, thou kind deceiver! Thou best of thieves! who, with an easy key, Dost open life, and, unperceived by us, Even steal us from ourselves. - All for Love (act V, sc. 1) [Death] Errors, like straws, upon the surface flow; He who would search for pearls, must dive below. - All for Love (prologue) [Error] A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow. - Amphitryon (act I, sc. 1) [Argument] Whistling to keep myself from being afraid. - Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1) [Courage] You know I met you, Kist you, and prest you close within my arms, With all the tenderness of wifely love. - Amphitryon (act III, sc. 1) [Wives] The true Amphitryon. - Amphitryon (act IV, sc. 1) [Eating] By viewing nature, nature's handmaid, art, Makes mighty things from small beginnings grow; That fishes first to shipping did impart, Their tail the rudder, and their head the prow. - Annus Mirabilis (st. 155) [Nature] And all at Worcester but the honour lost. - Astraea Redux [Honor] (Time) with his silent sickle. - Astroea Redux (l. 110) [Time] Roused by the lash of his own stubborn tail, Our lion now will foreign foes assail. - Astroea Redux (l. 117) [England] The winds that never moderation knew, Afraid to blow too much, too faintly blew; Or out of breath with joy, could not enlarge Their straighten'd lungs or conscious of their charge. - Astroea Redux (l. 242) [Wind] At home the hateful names of parties cease, And factious souls are wearied into peace. - Astroea Redux (l. 312) [Peace] A horrid stillness first invades the ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear. - Astroea Redux (l. 7) [Silence] He made all countries where he came his own. - Astroea Redux (l. 76) [Love of Country] Youth should watch joys and shoot them as they fly. - Aureng-Zebe (act III, sc. 1) [Youth] 'Tis not for nothing that we life pursue; It pays our hopes with something still that's new. - Aureng-Zebe (act IV, sc. 1) [Life] Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow's falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest. - Aureng-zebe (act IV, sc. 1) [Tomorrow] When I consider life, 'tis all a cheat; Yet, fooled with hope, men favour the deceit. - Aureng-Zebe (act IV, sc. 1) [Life] Death in itself is nothing; but we fear To be we know not what, we know not where. - Aurengzebe (act IV, sc. 1) [Death] Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray. - Britannia Rediviva (first lines) [Prayer] Displaying page 15 of 21 for this author: << Prev Next >> 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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