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"But what good came of it at last?" Quoth little Peterkin. "Why, that I cannot tell," said he; "But 'twas a famous victory." - Battle of Blenheim [Victory] The arts Babblative and Scriblative. - Colloquies [Words] It has been more wittily than charitably said that hell is paved with good intentions; they have their place in heaven also. - Colloquies on Society [Hell] Cupid "the little greatest god." - Commonplace Book (4th series, p. 462) [Love] St. Austin might have returned another answer to him that asked him, "What God employed himself about beofre the world was made?" "He was making hell." - Commonplace Book (fourth series, p. 591) [Hell] They sin who tell us Love can die: With life all other passions fly, All others are but vanity. In Heaven Ambition cannot dwell, Nor Avarice in the vaults of Hell. - Cure of Kehama--Mount Meru (st. 10) [Love] Midnight, and yet no eye Through all the Imperial City closed in sleep. - Curse of Kehama (pt. I, 1) [Midnight] . . . make the abhorrent eye Roll back and close. - Curse of Kehama (VIII, 9) [Abhorrence] What a world were this, How unendurable its weight, if they Whom Death hath sundered did not meet again! - Inscription XVII--Epitaph [Immortality] Happy those Who in the after-days shall live, when Time Hath spoken, and the multitude of years Taught wisdom to mankind! - Joan of Arc (bk. I) [Wisdom] Death! to the happy thou art terrible; But how the wretched love to think of thee, O thou true comforter! the friend of all Who have no friend beside! - Joan of Arc (bk. I, l. 318) [Death] Go, little Book! From this my solitude I cast thee on the Waters,--go thy ways: And if, as I believe, thy vein be good, The World will find thee after many days. Be it with thee according to thy worth: Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth. - Lay of the Laureate--L'Envoy [Books] Agreed to differ. - Life of Wesley [Argument] Now, motionless and dark, eluded search Self-shrouded: and anon, starring the sky, Rose like a shower of fire. - Madoc (pt. II) [Fireflies] What wilt not woman, gentle woman, dare When strong affection stirs her spirit up? - Madoc (pt. II, II) [Women] The moon arose: she shone upon the lake, Which lay one smooth expanse of silver light; She shone upon the hills and rocks, and cast Upon their hollows and their hidden glens A blacker depth of shade. - Madoc (pt. II, The Close of the Century) [Moon] Then more fierce The conflict grew; the din of arms, the yell Of savage rage, the shriek of agony, The groan of death, commingled in one sound Of undistinguish'd horrors. - Madoc (pt. II, XV) [War] Three things a wise man will not trust, The wind, the sunshine of an April day, And woman's plighted faith. - Madoc in Azthan (pt. XXIII, l. 51) [Distrust] Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, From that good God, who chastens whom he loves. - Madoc in Wales (III, l. 176) [Affliction] Ye who dwell at home, Ye do not know the terrors of the main. - Madoc in Wales (pt. IV) [Navigation] Blue, darkly, deeply, beautifully blue. - Madoc in Wales (pt. V), referring to dolphins [Fish] Four things which are not in thy treasury, I lay before thee, Lord, with this petition:-- My nothingness, my wants, My sins, and my contrition. - Occasional Pieces (XIX), imitated from the Persian [Prayer] While Washington hath left His awful memory, A light for after times. - Ode written during the War with America [Washington, George] Earth could not hold us both, nor can one heaven Contain my deadliest enemy and me. - Roderick, the Last of the Goths (bk. XXI) [Enemies] The march of intellect. - Sir Thos. More; or, Colloquies on the Progress and Prospects of Society (vol. II, p. 361) [Intellect : Progress] Displaying page 4 of 5 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 [4] 5
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