Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien,
As to be hated needs but to be seen;
Yet seen too oft, familiar with her face,
We first endure, then pity, then embrace.
2000
POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. ii., Line 217.

=Victory.=

Thus far our fortune keeps an upward course, And we are grac’d with wreaths of victory. 2001 SHAKS.:  3 Henry VI., Act v., Sc. 3.

“But what good came of it at last?”
Quoth little Peterkin. 
“Why, that I cannot tell,” said he;
“But ’twas a famous victory.”
2002
ROBERT SOUTHEY:  Battle of Blenheim.

=Village.=

Sweet Auburn! loveliest village of the plain. 2003 GOLDSMITH:  Des.  Village.

Suburban villas, highway-side retreats,
That dread th’ encroachment of our growing streets,
Tight boxes neatly sash’d, and in a blaze
With all a July sun’s collected rays,
Delight the citizen, who gasping there,
Breathes clouds of dust, and calls it country air.
2004
COWPER:  Retirement, Line 481.

=Villain.=

Which is the villain?  Let me see his eyes;
That when I note another man like him
I may avoid him.
2005
SHAKS.:  Much Ado, Act v., Sc. 1.

=Vine.=

Come, thou monarch of the vine,
Plumpy Bacchus with pink eyne!
2006
SHAKS.:  Ant. and Cleo., Act ii., Sc. 7.

=Violet.=

A violet by a mossy stone
  Half hidden from the eye;
Fair as a star, when only one
  Is shining in the sky.
2007
WORDSWORTH:  She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways.

Odors, when sweet violets sicken,
Live within the sense they quicken.
2008
SHELLEY:  Music, When Soft Voices Die.

What thought is folded in thy leaves! 
What tender thought, what speechless pain! 
I hold thy faded lips to mine,
Thou darling of the April rain!
2009
THOMAS BAILEY ALDRICH:  The Faded Violet.

=Virtue.=

Heaven doth with us, as we with torches do;
Not light them for themselves:  for if our virtues
Did not go forth of us, ’twere all alike
As if we had them not.
2010
SHAKS.:  M. for M., Act i., Sc. 1.

Men’s evil manners live in brass; their virtues
We write in water.
2011
SHAKS.:  Henry III., Act iv., Sc. 2.

Assume a virtue if you have it not. 2012 SHAKS.:  Hamlet, Act iii., Sc. 4.

Virtue may be assail’d, but never hurt;
Surpris’d by unjust force, but not enthrall’d;
Yea, even that which mischief meant most harm,
Shall in the happy trial prove most glory.
2013
MILTON:  Comus, Line 589.

Sometimes virtue starves while vice is fed, What then?  Is the reward of virtue bread? 2014 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 149.

=Vision.=

And in clear dream and solemn vision Tell her of things that no gross ear can hear. 2015 MILTON:  Comus, Line 453.

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