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| Grocott & Ward, comps. Grocott’s Familiar Quotations, 6th ed. 189-?. |
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| The fields to all their wonted tribute bear, To warm their little loves the birds complain; I fruitless mourn to him that cannot hear, And weep the more because I weep in vain. Gray.—Sonnet on Mr. West; quoted in Gilbert Wakefield’s Life of the Poet. | 1 |
| Weep no more, lady, weep no more, Thy sorrowe is in vaine; For violets pluckt, the sweetest showers Will ne’er make grow againe. Anonymous.—1 Percy Reliques, Book II. Page 262. “The Friar of Orders Grey;” and see “The Song of Consolation for the Survivors of the Dead,” in Fletcher’s “Queen of Corinth.” | 2 |
| Do not weep, my dear lady; your tears are too precious to shed for me; bottle them up, and may the cork never be drawn. Sterne.—Letter, No. 128. | 3 |
| I have not wept these forty years; but now My mother comes afresh into my eyes: I cannot help her softness. Dryden.—All for Love, Act I. Scene 1. | 4 |
| I wept him dead that living honoured me. Greene.—A Maiden’s Dream, V. 5 from the end. | 5 |
| We weep and laugh, as we see others do; He only makes me sad who shows the way, And first is sad himself. Roscommon.—Horace, Art of Poetry. | 6 |
| Your looks must alter as your subject does, From kind to fierce, from wanton to severe. (Or, as Pope has it, “from grave to gay, from lively to severe:”) For nature forms, and softens us within, And writes our fortune’s changes in our face. Roscommon.—Horace, Art of Poetry. | 7 |
| “Say, what remains when hope is fled?” She answered, “endless weeping!” Rogers.—The Boy of Egremond, Line 1. | 8 |
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