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] |