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John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.

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Thomas Campbell. (1777–1844) (continued)
 
5348
    But Hope, the charmer, linger’d still behind.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 40.
5349
    O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save!
          Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 359.
5350
    Hope for a season bade the world farewell,
And Freedom shriek’d as Kosciusko fell! 1
          Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 381.
5351
    On Prague’s proud arch the fires of ruin glow,
His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 385.
5352
    And rival all but Shakespeare’s name below.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 472.
5353
    Who hath not own’d, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name?
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 5.
5354
    Without the smile from partial beauty won,
Oh what were man?—a world without a sun.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 21.
5355
    The world was sad, the garden was a wild,
And man the hermit sigh’d—till woman smiled.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 37.
5356
    While Memory watches o’er the sad review
Of joys that faded like the morning dew.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 45.
5357
    There shall he love when genial morn appears,
Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 95.
5358
    And muse on Nature with a poet’s eye.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 98.
5359
    That gems the starry girdle of the year.
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 194.
5360
    Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll
Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul!
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 263.
5361
    O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there,
To waft us home the message of despair?
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 325.
5362
    But sad as angels for the good man’s sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in. 2
          Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 357.
 
Note 1.
At length, fatigued with life, he bravely fell,
And health with Boerhaave bade the world farewell.
Church: The Choice (1754). [back]
Note 2.
See Sterne, Quotation 5. [back]