John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919.
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| Thomas Campbell. (1777–1844) (continued) |
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| But Hope, the charmer, linger’d still behind. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 40. |
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| O Heaven! he cried, my bleeding country save! |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 359. |
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| Hope for a season bade the world farewell, And Freedom shriek’d as Kosciusko fell! 1 |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 381. |
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| On Prague’s proud arch the fires of ruin glow, His blood-dyed waters murmuring far below. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 385. |
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| And rival all but Shakespeare’s name below. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part i. Line 472. |
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| 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. |
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| Without the smile from partial beauty won, Oh what were man?—a world without a sun. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 21. |
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| 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. |
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| While Memory watches o’er the sad review Of joys that faded like the morning dew. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 45. |
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| There shall he love when genial morn appears, Like pensive Beauty smiling in her tears. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 95. |
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| And muse on Nature with a poet’s eye. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 98. |
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| That gems the starry girdle of the year. |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 194. |
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| Melt and dispel, ye spectre-doubts, that roll Cimmerian darkness o’er the parting soul! |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 263. |
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| O star-eyed Science! hast thou wandered there, To waft us home the message of despair? |
| Pleasures of Hope. Part ii. Line 325. |
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| 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] |