John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Richard Lovelace. (1618–1657?) (continued) |
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| Stone walls do not a prison make, Nor iron bars a cage; Minds innocent and quiet take That for an hermitage; If I have freedom in my love, And in my soul am free, Angels alone that soar above Enjoy such liberty. |
| To Althea from Prison, iv. |
| Abraham Cowley. (1618–1667) |
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| What shall I do to be forever known, And make the age to come my own? |
| The Motto. |
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| His time is forever, everywhere his place. |
| Friendship in Absence. |
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| We spent them not in toys, in lusts, or wine, But search of deep philosophy, Wit, eloquence, and poetry; Arts which I lov’d, for they, my friend, were thine. |
| On the Death of Mr. William Harvey. |
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| His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might Be wrong; his life, I ’m sure, was in the right. 1 |
| On the Death of Crashaw. |
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| The thirsty earth soaks up the rain, And drinks, and gapes for drink again; The plants suck in the earth, and are With constant drinking fresh and fair. |
| From Anacreon, ii. Drinking. |
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| Fill all the glasses there, for why Should every creature drink but I? Why, man of morals, tell me why? |
| From Anacreon, ii. Drinking. |
| Note 1. For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight, He can’t be wrong whose life is in the right. Alexander Pope: Essay on Man, epilogue iii. line 303. [back] |