The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (123 page)

Crane, Stephen
1871–1900

1
The red badge of courage.

title of novel (1895)

 
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Cranmer, Thomas
1489–1556

1
This was the hand that wrote it [his recantation], therefore it shall suffer first punishment.
at the stake, Oxford, 21 March 1556

John Richard Green
A Short History of the English People
(1874) ch. 7, sect. 2

 
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Crashaw, Richard
c.
1612–49

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Nympha pudica Deum vidit, et erubuit.
The conscious water saw its God, and blushed.
literally, "the chaste nymph saw…"; the translation above is attributed to Dryden, when a schoolboy

Epigrammata Sacra
(1634) "Aquae in vinum versae [Water changed into wine]"; the translation is discussed in
Notes and Queries
4th series (1869) vol. 4

2
Love's passives are his activ'st part.
The wounded is the wounding heart.

"The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa" (1652) l. 73

3
By all the eagle in thee, all the dove.

"The Flaming Heart upon the Book of Saint Teresa" (1652) l. 95

4
Love, thou art absolute sole Lord
Of life and death.

"Hymn to the Name and Honour of the Admirable Saint Teresa" (1652) l. 1

5
Poor World (said I) what wilt thou do
To entertain this starry stranger?

"Hymn of the Nativity" (1652)

6
Welcome, all wonders in one sight!
Eternity shut in a span.

"Hymn of the Nativity" (1652)

7
That not impossible she
That shall command my heart and me.

"Wishes to His (Supposed) Mistress" (1646)

 
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Crawford, Julia
?1800–55

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Kathleen Mavourneen! the grey dawn is breaking,
The horn of the hunter is heard on the hill.

"Kathleen Mavourneen" in
Metropolitan Magazine
, London (1835)

 
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Crawford, Robert
1959–

1
In Scotland we live between and across languages.

Identifying Poets
(1993)

 
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Crazy Horse
c.
1849–77

1
One does not sell the earth upon which the people walk.

Dee Brown
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
(1970) ch. 12

 
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