John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Gray. (1716–1771) (continued) |
| And happiness too swiftly flies? Thought would destroy their paradise. No more; where ignorance is bliss, ’T is folly to be wise. 1 |
| On a Distant Prospect of Eton College. Stanza 10. |
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| Daughter of Jove, relentless power, Thou tamer of the human breast, Whose iron scourge and tort’ring hour The bad affright, afflict the best! |
| Hymn to Adversity. |
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| From Helicon’s harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take. |
| The Progress of Poesy. I. 1, Line 3. |
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| Glance their many-twinkling feet. |
| The Progress of Poesy. I. 3, Line 11. |
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| O’er her warm cheek and rising bosom move The bloom of young Desire and purple light of Love. 2 |
| The Progress of Poesy. I. 3, Line 16. |
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| Her track, where’er the goddess roves, Glory pursue, and gen’rous shame, Th’ unconquerable mind, 3 and freedom’s holy flame. |
| The Progress of Poesy. II. 2, Line 10. |
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| Or ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. |
| The Progress of Poesy. III. 1, Line 12. |
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| He pass’d the flaming bounds of place and time: The living throne, the sapphire blaze, Where angels tremble while they gaze, He saw; but blasted with excess of light, Closed his eyes in endless night. |
| The Progress of Poesy. III. 2, Line 4. |
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| Bright-eyed Fancy, hov’ring o’er, Scatters from her pictured urn Thoughts that breathe and words that burn. 4 |
| The Progress of Poesy. III. 3, Line 2. |
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| Beyond the limits of a vulgar fate, Beneath the good how far,—but far above the great. |
| The Progress of Poesy. III. 3, Line 16. |
| Note 1. See Davenant, Quotation 2. He that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.—Ecclesiastes i. 18. [back] |
| Note 2. The light of love.—Lord Byron: Bride of Abydos, canto i. stanza 6. [back] |
| Note 3. Unconquerable mind.—William Wordsworth: To Toussaint L’Ouverture. [back] |
| Note 4. See Cowley, Quotation 19. [back] |