| John Bartlett (1820–1905). Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. 1919. |
| Page 380 |
| William Shenstone. (1714–1763) (continued) |
| 4139 |
| So sweetly she bade me adieu, I thought that she bade me return. |
| A Pastoral. Part i. |
| 4140 |
| I have found out a gift for my fair; I have found where the wood-pigeons breed. |
| A Pastoral. Part i. |
| 4141 |
| My banks they are furnish’d with bees, Whose murmur invites one to sleep. |
| A Pastoral. Part ii. Hope. |
| 4142 |
| For seldom shall she hear a tale So sad, so tender, and so true. |
| Jemmy Dawson. |
| 4143 |
| Her cap, far whiter than the driven snow, Emblems right meet of decency does yield. |
| The Schoolmistress. Stanza 6. |
| 4144 |
| Pun-provoking thyme. |
| The Schoolmistress. Stanza 11. |
| 4145 |
| A little bench of heedless bishops here, And there a chancellor in embryo. |
| The Schoolmistress. Stanza 28. |
| John Brown. (1715–1766) |
| 4146 |
| Now let us thank the Eternal Power: convinced That Heaven but tries our virtue by affliction,— That oft the cloud which wraps the present hour Serves but to brighten all our future days. |
| Barbarossa. Act v. Sc. 3. |
| 4147 |
| And coxcombs vanquish Berkeley by a grin. |
| An Essay on Satire, occasioned by the Death of Mr. Pope. 1 |
| James Townley. (1715–1778) |
| 4148 |
| Kitty. Shikspur? Shikspur? Who wrote it? No, I never read Shikspur. Lady Bab. Then you have an immense pleasure to come. |
| High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| 4149 |
| From humble Port to imperial Tokay. |
| High Life below Stairs. Act ii. Sc. 1. |
| Note 1. Anderson: British Poets, vol. x. p. 879. See note in “Contemporary Review,” September, 1867, p. 4. [back] |
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