“You should not take a fellow eight years old
And make him swear to never kiss the girls.”
"Fra Lippo Lippi", line 224.
Men and Women (1855)
“Tis not what man Does which exalts him, but what man Would do!”
"Saul", xviii.
Dramatic Romances and Lyrics (1845)
“When the liquor's out, why clink the cannikin?”
The Flight of the Duchess, xvi.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Source: Dramatis Personae (1864), Rabbi Ben Ezra, Line 157.
“Fail I alone, in words and deeds?
Why, all men strive and who succeeds?”
"The Last Ride Together", line 67 (1859).
“Thy rare gold ring of verse (the poet praised)
Linking our England to his Italy.”
Book XII: The Book and the Ring, line 873.
The Ring and the Book (1868-69)
“God is the perfect poet,
Who in his person acts his own creations.”
Part 2.
Paracelsus (1835)
“There is no truer truth obtainable
By Man than comes of music.”
Charles Avison.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Lost, lost! one moment knelled the woe of years.”
Childe Roland to the dark Tower came, xxxiii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Wanting is—what?
Summer redundant,
Blueness abundant,
Where is the blot?”
Wanting—is what?
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Old Pictures in Florence, xvii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart
Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.”
Valence, in Act IV.
Colombe's Birthday (1844)
“The body sprang
At once to the height, and stayed; but the soul,—no!”
A Death in the Desert (1864)
Cleon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But how carve way i' the life that lies before,
If bent on groaning ever for the past?”
Balaustion's Adventure.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“But little do or can the best of us:
That little is achieved through Liberty.”
Why I am a Liberal.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Book the First
Sordello (1840)