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Authors: Elizabeth Knowles
1631–96
All this, and heaven too!
in Matthew Henry
Life of Mr Philip Henry
(1698) ch. 5
1903–75
Carving is interrelated masses conveying an emotion: a perfect relationship between the mind and the colour, light and weight which is the stone, made by the hand which feels.
Herbert Read (ed.)
Unit One
(1934)
c.
540
bc
You can't step twice into the same river.
Plato
Cratylus
402a
A man's character is his fate.
On the Universe
fragment 121 (tr. W. H. S. Jones)
The road up and the road down are one and the same.
H. Diels and W. Kranz
Die Fragmente der Vorsokratiker
(7th ed., 1954) fragment 60
1890–1971
The Farmer will never be happy again;
He carries his heart in his boots;
For either the rain is destroying his grain
Or the drought is destroying his roots.
"The Farmer" (1922)
As my poor father used to say
In 1863,
Once people start on all this Art
Goodbye, moralitee!
"Lines for a Worthy Person" (1930)
This high official, all allow,
Is grossly overpaid;
There wasn't any Board, and now
There isn't any Trade.
"The President of the Board of Trade" (1922)
Holy deadlock.
title of novel (1934)
People must not do things for fun. We are not here for fun. There is no reference to fun in any Act of Parliament.
Uncommon Law
(1935) "Is it a Free Country?"
The critical period in matrimony is breakfast-time.
Uncommon Law
(1935) "Is Marriage Lawful?"
of Cherbury 1583–1648
Now that the April of your youth adorns
The garden of your face.
"Ditty: Now that the April" (1665)
1593–1633
Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing
My God and King.
"Antiphon: Let all the world in ev'ry corner sing" (1633)
I struck the board, and cried, "No more.
I will abroad."
"The Collar" (1633)
Away; take heed:
I will abroad.
Call in thy death's-head there: tie up thy fears.
"The Collar" (1633)
But as I raved and grew more fierce and wild
At every word,
Methought I heard one calling, "Child";
And I replied, "My Lord."
"The Collar" (1633)
Teach me, my God and King,
In all things Thee to see,
And what I do in any thing
To do it as for Thee.
"The Elixir" (1633)
A servant with this clause
Makes drudgery divine:
Who sweeps a room as for Thy laws
Makes that and th' action fine.
"The Elixir" (1633)
Lovely enchanting language, sugar-cane,
Honey of roses!
"The Forerunners" (1633)
Who says that fictions only and false hair
Become a verse? Is there in truth no beauty?
Is all good structure in a winding stair?
"Jordan (1)" (1633)
Love bade me welcome: yet my soul drew back,
Guilty of dust and sin.
But quick-eyed Love, observing me grow slack
From my first entrance in,
Drew nearer to me, sweetly questioning,
If I lacked any thing.
"Love: Love bade me welcome" (1633)
"You must sit down," says Love, "and taste my meat."
So I did sit and eat.
"Love: Love bade me welcome" (1633)
When God at first made man,
Having a glass of blessings standing by;
Let us (said he) pour on him all we can:
Let the world's riches, which dispersed lie,
Contract into a span.
"The Pulley" (1633)
If goodness lead him not, yet weariness
May toss him to My breast.
"The Pulley" (1633)
Man stole the fruit, but I must climb the tree.
"The Sacrifice" (1633) l. 202
The God of love my Shepherd is,
And He that doth me feed:
While He is mine, and I am His,
What can I want or need?
"The 23rd Psalm" (1633).
Sweet spring, full of sweet days and roses,
A box where sweets compacted lie.
"Virtue" (1633)