C.N. Douglas, comp. Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical. 1917. Jewels
I’ll give my jewels for a set of beads.Shakespeare.
1 Full many a gem of purest ray serene The dark unfathom’d caves of ocean bear.
Gray.
2 If that a pearl may in a toad’s head dwell, And may be found too in an oyster shell.
Bunyan.
3 These gems have life in them: their colors speak, Say what words fail of.
George Eliot.
4 Jewels five-words-long, That on the stretch’d forefinger of all Time Sparkle for ever.
Tennyson.
5 There is many a rich stone laid up in the bowels of the earth, many a fair pearl laid up in the bosom of the sea, that never was seen nor never shall be.Bishop Hall.
6 The lively Diamond drinks thy purest rays, Collected light, compact.
Thomson.
7 Some ask’d how pearls did grow, and where, Then, spoke I to my girle, To part her lips, and showed them there The quarrelets of pearl.
Herrick.
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