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

Page 631

Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton. (1803–1873) (continued)

6421

You speak
As one who fed on poetry.

Richelieu. Act i. Sc. vi.

6422

Beneath the rule of men entirely great,
The pen is mightier than the sword. 1

Richelieu. Act ii. Sc. ii.

6423

Ambition has no risk.

Richelieu. Act iii. Sc. i.

6424

Take away the sword;
States can be saved without it.

Richelieu. Act iii. Sc. i.

6425

In the lexicon of youth, which fate reserves
For a bright manhood, there is no such word
As “fail.”

Richelieu. Act iii. Sc. i.

6426

Our glories float between the earth and heaven
Like clouds which seem pavilions of the sun.

Richelieu. Act v. Sc. iii.

6427

The brilliant chief, irregularly great,
Frank, haughty, rash,—the Rupert of debate! 2

The New Timon. (1846). Part i.

6428

Alone!—that worn-out word,
So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;
Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known
Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word ALONE!

The New Timon. (1846). Part ii.

6429

    Two lives that once part are as ships that divide
  When, moment on moment, there rushes between
      The one and the other a sea;—
  Ah, never can fall from the days that have been
      A gleam on the years that shall be! 3

A Lament.

6430

Memory, no less than hope, owes its charm to “the far away.”

A Lament.

6431

When stars are in the quiet skies,
Then most I pine for thee;

Note 1.
See Burton, page 189. [back]

Note 2.
In April, 1844, Mr. Disraeli thus alluded to Lord Stanley: “The noble lord is the Rupert of debate.” [back]

Note 3.
Ships that pass in the night. See Longfellow, page 644. [back]

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