John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued) |
| Of two such lessons, why forget The nobler and the manlier one? You have the letters Cadmus gave,— Think ye he meant them for a slave? |
| Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 10. |
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| Place me on Sunium’s marbled steep, Where nothing save the waves and I May hear our mutual murmurs sweep; There, swan-like, let me sing and die. 1 |
| Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 86. 16. |
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| But words are things, and a small drop of ink, Falling like dew upon a thought, produces That which makes thousands, perhaps millions, think. |
| Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 88. |
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| Ah, surely nothing dies but something mourns. |
| Don Juan. Canto iii. Stanza 108. |
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| And if I laugh at any mortal thing, ’T is that I may not weep. |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 4. |
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| The precious porcelain of human clay. 2 |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 11. |
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| “Whom the gods love die young,” was said of yore. 3 |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12. |
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| Perhaps the early grave Which men weep over may be meant to save. |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 12. |
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| And her face so fair Stirr’d with her dream, as rose-leaves with the air. 4 |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 29. |
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| These two hated with a hate Found only on the stage. |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93. |
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| “Arcades ambo,”—id est, blackguards both. |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 93. |
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| I ’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb, And heard Troy doubted: time will doubt of Rome. |
| Don Juan. Canto iv. Stanza 101. |
| Note 1. See Shakespeare, The Merchant of Venice, Quotation 52. [back] |
| Note 2. See Dryden, Quotation 102. [back] |
| Note 3. See Wordsworth, Quotation 148. [back] |
| Note 4. All her innocent thoughts Like rose-leaves scatter’d. John Wilson: On the Death of a Child. (1812.) [back] |