Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 1.
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Cherry-Ripe http://www.bartleby.com/101/168.html.
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Of Tea. Compare: "The dome of thought, the palace of the soul", Lord Byron, Childe Harold, canto ii. stanza 6.
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To a Lady singing a Song of his Composing; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). See also Eagles, for variations on this theme.
On St. James's Park; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“My joy, my grief, my hope, my love,
Did all within this circle move!”
On a Girdle (1664), st. 2.
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Edmund Waller Quotes about love
“For all we know
Of what the blessed do above
Is, that they sing, and that they love.”
While I listen to thy Voice; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Upon the Death of My Lady Rich (1664).
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“Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.”
Canto III.
Of Divine Love (c. 1686)
Context: Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Where love presides, not vice alone does find
No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind:
Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train
Of mortal virtues, at the door remain.
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
“Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
We should agree as angels do above.”
Canto III.
Of Divine Love (c. 1686)
Context: Could we forbear dispute, and practice love,
We should agree as angels do above.
Where love presides, not vice alone does find
No entrance there, hut virtues stay behind:
Both faith, and hope, and all the meaner train
Of mortal virtues, at the door remain.
Love only enters as a native there,
For born in heav'n, it does but sojourn here.
“He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.”
Canto III.
Of Divine Love (c. 1686)
Context: He that alone would wise and mighty be,
Commands that others love as well as he.
Love as he lov'd! — How can we soar so high?—
He can add wings when he commands to fly.
Nor should we be with this command dismay'd;
He that examples gives will give his aid:
For he took flesh, that where his precepts fall,
His practice, as a pattern, may prevail.
Edmund Waller Quotes
“The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more.”
Speech in parliament (19 October 1675) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40374.
Context: The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. There was loan, and ship-money, and extremes begat extremes. The House would then give no money. Let the King rely upon the Parliament; we have settled the Crown and the Government. 'Tis strange that we have sat so many years, and given so much money, and are still called upon for Supply. The Lords may give Supply with their own money, but we give the peoples; we are their proxies. The King takes his measures by the Parliament, and he doubts not but that all the Commons will supply for the Government; but giving at this rate that we have done, we shall be "a branch of the revenue." They will "anticipate" us too. But, let the officers say what they will, we will not make these mismanagements the King's error. 'Tis better it should fall upon us than the King. We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. 'Tis the advice that the oldest Parliament-man among you can give you; and so, God bless you!
Speech in parliament (19 October 1675) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40374.
Context: The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. There was loan, and ship-money, and extremes begat extremes. The House would then give no money. Let the King rely upon the Parliament; we have settled the Crown and the Government. 'Tis strange that we have sat so many years, and given so much money, and are still called upon for Supply. The Lords may give Supply with their own money, but we give the peoples; we are their proxies. The King takes his measures by the Parliament, and he doubts not but that all the Commons will supply for the Government; but giving at this rate that we have done, we shall be "a branch of the revenue." They will "anticipate" us too. But, let the officers say what they will, we will not make these mismanagements the King's error. 'Tis better it should fall upon us than the King. We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. 'Tis the advice that the oldest Parliament-man among you can give you; and so, God bless you!
“Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade.”
Speech in parliament (19 October 1675) http://www.british-history.ac.uk/report.asp?compid=40374.
Context: The King governs by Law. Let us look back to the evils we had, in order to prevent more. There was loan, and ship-money, and extremes begat extremes. The House would then give no money. Let the King rely upon the Parliament; we have settled the Crown and the Government. 'Tis strange that we have sat so many years, and given so much money, and are still called upon for Supply. The Lords may give Supply with their own money, but we give the peoples; we are their proxies. The King takes his measures by the Parliament, and he doubts not but that all the Commons will supply for the Government; but giving at this rate that we have done, we shall be "a branch of the revenue." They will "anticipate" us too. But, let the officers say what they will, we will not make these mismanagements the King's error. 'Tis better it should fall upon us than the King. We give public money, and must see that it goes to public use. Tell your money, fix it to public ends, and take order against occasions of this nature for the future. We cannot live at the expence of Spain, that has the Indies; or France, who has so many millions of revenue. Let us look to our Government, Fleet, and Trade. 'Tis the advice that the oldest Parliament-man among you can give you; and so, God bless you!
On a Girdle (1664), st. 1.
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“Poets lose half the praise they should have got,
Could it be known what they discreetly blot.”
Upon Roscommon's Translation of Horace's De Arte Poetica.
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On the Divine Poems (1686). Compare: "To vanish in the chinks that Time has made", Samuel Rogers, Pæstum; "As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
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“Under the tropic is our language spoke,
And part of Flanders hath receiv'd our yoke.”
Upon the Death of the Lord Protector; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Guarded with ships, and all our sea our own.”
To My Lord of Falkland.
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An Apology for Having Loved Before (1664).
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“How small a part of time they share
That are so wondrous sweet and fair!”
Go, Lovely Rose (1664), st. 2.
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“Illustrious acts high raptures do infuse,
And every conqueror creates a muse.”
Panegyric to My Lord Protector (or Panegyric on Cromwell).
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On a Girdle; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The yielding marble of her snowy breast.”
On a Lady passing through a Crowd of People; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Poets that lasting marble seek
Must come in Latin or in Greek.”
Of English Verse (1668).
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