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

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George Gordon Noel Byron, Lord Byron. (1788–1824) (continued)
 
His changing cheek, his sinking heart, confess
The might, the majesty of loveliness?
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 6.
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    The light of love, 1 the purity of grace,
The mind, the music breathing from her face, 2
The heart whose softness harmonized the whole,—
And oh, that eye was in itself a soul!
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Stanza 6.
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    The blind old man of Scio’s rocky isle.
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 2.
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    Be thou the rainbow to the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray!
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 20.
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    He makes a solitude, and calls it—peace! 3
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 20.
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    Hark! to the hurried question of despair:
“Where is my child?”—an echo answers, “Where? 4
          The Bride of Abydos. Canto i. Canto ii. Stanza 27.
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    The fatal facility of the octosyllabic verse.
          The Corsair. Preface.
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    O’er the glad waters of the dark blue sea,
Our thoughts as boundless, and our souls as free,
Far as the breeze can bear, the billows foam, 5
Survey our empire, and behold our home!
These are our realms, no limit to their sway,—
Our flag the sceptre all who meet obey.
          The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 1.
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    Oh who can tell, save he whose heart hath tried.
          The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 1.
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    She walks the waters like a thing of life,
And seems to dare the elements to strife.
          The Corsair. Canto i. Stanza 3.
 
Note 1.
See Gray, Quotation 14. [back]
Note 2.
See Lovelace, Quotation 1. Browne, Quotation 8. [back]
Note 3.
Solitudinem faciunt, pacem appellant (They make solitude, which they call peace).—Tacitus: Agricola, c. 30. [back]
Note 4.
I came to the place of my birth, and cried, “The friends of my youth, where are they?” And echo answered, “Where are they?”—Arabic MS. [back]
Note 5.
See Churchill, Quotation 10.

To all nations their empire will be dreadful, because their ships will sail wherever billows roll or winds can waft them.—Dalrymple: Memoirs, vol. iii. p. 152. [back]