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

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Percy Bysshe Shelley. (1792–1822) (continued)
 
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      The moon of Mahomet
  Arose, and it shall set;
While, blazoned as on heaven’s immortal noon,
  The cross leads generations on.
          Hellas. Line 221.
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    The world’s great age begins anew,
  The golden years return,
The earth doth like a snake renew
  Her winter weeds outworn.
          Hellas. Line 1060.
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    What! alive, and so bold, O earth?
          Written on hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon.
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    All love is sweet,
Given or returned. Common as light is love,
And its familiar voice wearies not ever.
     .     .     .     .     .     .
They who inspire it most are fortunate,
As I am now; but those who feel it most
Are happier still. 1
          Prometheus Unbound. Act ii. Sc. 5.
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    Those who inflict must suffer, for they see
The work of their own hearts, and this must be
Our chastisement or recompense.
          Julian and Maddalo. Line 482.
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    Most wretched men
Are cradled into poetry by wrong:
They learn in suffering what they teach in song. 2
          Julian and Maddalo. Line 544.
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    I could lie down like a tired child,
And weep away the life of care
Which I have borne, and yet must bear.
          Stanzas written in Dejection, near Naples. Stanza 4.
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    Peter was dull; he was at first
  Dull,—oh so dull, so very dull!
Whether he talked, wrote, or rehearsed,
Still with this dulness was he cursed!
  Dull,—beyond all conception, dull.
          Peter Bell the Third. Part vii. xi.
 
Note 1.
The pleasure of love is in loving. We are much happier in the passion we feel than in that we inspire.—Francis, Duc de La Rochefoucauld: Maxim 259. [back]
Note 2.
See Butler, Quotation 71. [back]