Letters. Grocott's Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?

Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?.

Letters


It is by the benefit of Letters, that absent friends are in a manner brought together. Seneca.—Epi. 4.	1
They are those wing’d postilions that can fly From the Antarctic to the Arctic sky; The heralds and swift harbingers that move From east to west on embassies of love. Howell.—On Letters, Poem II. Line 5.	2
Heaven first taught letters for some wretch’s aid, Some banish’d lover or some captive maid. Pope.—Eloise to Abelard, Line 51.	3
Speed the soft intercourse from soul to soul, And waft a sigh from Indus to the Pole. Pope.—Eloise to Abelard, Line 57.	4
And thus his quill Declares to her the absent lover’s will. Cowley.—The Song, Verse last.	5
Kind messages that pass from land to land, Kind letters that betray the heart’s deep history, In which we feel the pressure of a hand, One touch of fire and all the rest is mystery! Longfellow.—The Sea-side, and Fire-side: Dedication.	6