Aurora Quotes. Hoyt's New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922

Hoyt & Roberts, comps. Hoyt’s New Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations. 1922.

Aurora


Aurora had but newly chased the night, And purpled o’er the sky with blushing light. Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. I. L. 186.	1
But when Aurora, daughter of the dawn, With rosy lustre purpled o’er the lawn. Homer—Odyssey. Bk. III. L. 621. Pope’s trans.	2
Night’s son was driving His golden-haired horses up; Over the eastern firths High flashed their manes. Charles Kingsley—The Longbeards’ Saga.	3
Zephyr, with Aurora playing, As he met her once a-Maying. Milton—L’Allegro. L. 19.	4
For night’s swift dragons cut the clouds full fast, And yonder shines Aurora’s harbinger; At whose approach ghosts, wandering here and there, Troop home to churchyards. Midsummer Night’s Dream. Act III. Sc. 2. L. 379.	5
The wolves have prey’d: and look, the gentle day, Before the wheels of Phœbus, round about, Dapples the drowsy east with spots of grey. Much Ado About Nothing. Act V. Sc. 3. L. 25.	6
At last, the golden orientall gate Of greatest heaven gan to open fayre, And Phœbus, fresh as brydegrome to his mate, Came dauncing forth, shaking his dewie hayre; And hurls his glistring beams through gloomy ayre. Spenser—Faerie Queene. Bk. I. Canto V. St. 2.	7
You cannot rob me of free nature’s grace, You cannot shut the windows of the sky Through which Aurora shows her brightening face. Thomson—Castle of Indolence. Canto II. St. 3.	8