Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations eBook

This eBook from the Gutenberg Project consists of approximately 261 pages of information about Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations.

Oft of one wide expanse had I been told
  That deep-brow’d Homer ruled as his demesne,
  Yet did I never breathe its pure serene
Till I heard Chapman speak out loud and bold.
919
KEATS:  On first looking into Chapman’s Homer.

Seven cities warred for Homer being dead; Who living had no roofe to shrowd his head. 920 THOMAS HEYWOOD:  Hierarchie of the Blessed Angells.

=Honesty.=

An honest man he is, and hates the slime
That sticks on filthy deeds.
921
SHAKS.:  Othello, Act v., Sc. 2.

A wit’s a feather, and a chief a rod;
An honest man’s the noblest work of God.
922
POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 247.

=Honor.=

Too much honor: 
O, ’tis a burthen, ... ’tis a burthen,
Too heavy for a man that hopes for heaven.
923
SHAKS.:  Henry VIII., Act iii., Sc. 2.

Honor travels in a strait so narrow, Where one but goes abreast:  keep then the path. 924 SHAKS.:  Troil, and Cress., Act iii., Sc. 3.

Honor’s a fine imaginary notion,
That draws in raw and unexperienced men
To real mischiefs, while they hunt a shadow.
925
ADDISON:  Cato, Act ii., Sc. 5.

Honor and shame from no condition rise; Act well your part, there all the honor lies. 926 POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. iv., Line 193.

His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true. 927 TENNYSON:  Idyls, Elaine, Line 884.

There Honor comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay.
928
WILLIAM COLLINS:  Ode in 1746.

=Hood.=

A page of Hood may do a fellow good
After a scolding from Carlyle or Ruskin.
929
OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES:  How Not to Settle It.

=Hope.=

True hope is swift, and flies with swallows’ wings; Kings it makes gods, and meaner creatures kings. 930 SHAKS.:  Richard III., Act v., Sc. 2.

So farewell hope, and, with hope, farewell fear, Farewell remorse!  All good to me is lost. 931 MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. iv., Line 108.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast;
Man never is, but always to be blest.
932
POPE:  Essay on Man, Epis. i., Line 95.

Auspicious hope! in thy sweet garden grow Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe. 933 CAMPBELL:  Pl. of Hope, Pt. i., Line 45.

Thus heavenly hope is all serene,
  But earthly hope, how bright soe’er,
Still fluctuates o’er this changing scene,
  As false and fleeting as ’tis fair.
934
HEBER:  On Heavenly Hope and Earthly Hope.

Where peace
And rest can never dwell, hope never comes
That comes to all.
935
MILTON:  Par.  Lost, Bk. i., Line 65.

“All hope abandon, ye who enter in!”
These words in sombre color I beheld
Written upon the summit of a gate.
936
DANTE:  Inferno, Longfellow’s Trans., Canto iii., Line 9.

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