John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge. (1772–1834) (continued) |
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Nought cared this body for wind or weather When youth and I lived in ’t together. |
Youth and Age. |
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Flowers are lovely; love is flower-like; Friendship is a sheltering tree; Oh the joys that came down shower-like, Of friendship, love, and liberty, Ere I was old! |
Youth and Age. |
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I have heard of reasons manifold Why Love must needs be blind, But this the best of all I hold,— His eyes are in his mind. 1 |
To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation. |
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What outward form and feature are He guesseth but in part; But what within is good and fair He seeth with the heart. |
To a Lady, Offended by a Sportive Observation. |
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Be that blind bard who on the Chian strand, By those deep sounds possessed with inward light, Beheld the Iliad and the Odyssey Rise to the swelling of the voiceful sea. 2 |
Fancy in Nubibus. |
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I counted two-and-seventy stenches, All well defined, and several stinks. |
Cologne. |
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The river Rhine, it is well known, Doth wash your city of Cologne; But tell me, nymphs! what power divine Shall henceforth wash the river Rhine? |
Cologne. |
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Strongly it bears us along in swelling and limitless billows; Nothing before and nothing behind but the sky and the ocean. |
The Homeric Hexameter. (Translated from Schiller.) |
Note 1. See Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Quotation 5. [back] |
Note 2. And Iliad and Odyssey Rose to the music of the sea. Thalatta, p. 132. (From the German of Stolberg.) [back] |