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

Page 390

William Collins. (1721–1759) (continued)

There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there!

Ode written in the year 1746.

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When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung.

The Passions. Line 1.

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Fill’d with fury, rapt, inspired.

The Passions. Line 10.

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’T was sad by fits, by starts ’t was wild.

The Passions. Line 28.

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In notes by distance made more sweet. 1

The Passions. Line 60.

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In hollow murmurs died away.

The Passions. Line 68.

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O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom’s aid!

The Passions. Line 95.

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In yonder grave a Druid lies.

Death of Thomson.

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Too nicely Jonson knew the critic’s part;
Nature in him was almost lost in Art.

To Sir Thomas Hammer on his Edition of Shakespeare.

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    Each lonely scene shall thee restore;
  For thee the tear be duly shed,
Belov’d till life can charm no more,
  And mourn’d till Pity’s self be dead.

Dirge in Cymbeline.

James Merrick. (1720–1769)

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Not what we wish, but what we want,
Oh, let thy grace supply! 2

Hymn.

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Oft has it been my lot to mark
A proud, conceited, talking spark.

The Chameleon.

Note 1.
Sweetest melodies.
Are those that are by distance made more sweet.
William Wordsworth: Personal Talk, stanza 2. [back]

Note 2.
[greek] (Let not that happen which I wish, but that which is right.—Menander: Fragment. [back]

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