Thomas Bailey Aldrich citations

Thomas Bailey Aldrich était écrivain américain.

✵ 11. novembre 1836 – 19. mars 1907
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“Here is woe, a self and not the mask of woe.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Andromeda; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“That was indeed to live—
At one bold swoop to wrest
From darkling death the best
That Death to Life can give!”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Shaw. Memorial Ode; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“So precious life is! Even to the old
The hours are as a miser’s coins!”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Broken Music; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
Variante: So precious life is! Even to the old the hours are as a miser’s coins!

“Or light or dark, or short or tall,
She sets a springe to snare them all:
All's one to her—above her fan
She'd make sweet eyes at Caliban.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Quatrains, Coquette; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 139.

“When friends are at your hearthside met,
Sweet courtesy has done its most
If you have made each guest forget
That he himself is not the host.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: Hospitality; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 379.

“It was pleasant to me to get a letter from you the other day. Perhaps I should have found it pleasanter if I had been able to decipher it. I don't think that I mastered anything beyond the date (which I knew) and the signature (which I guessed at).

There's a singular and a perpetual charm in a letter of yours; it never grows old, it never loses its novelty… Other letters are read and thrown away and forgotten, but yours are kept forever - unread. One of them will last a reasonable man a lifetime.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

letter to Professor E.S. Morse http://books.google.com/books?id=fYQCAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA41&lpg=PA41&dq=There's+a+singular+and+a+perpetual+charm+in+a+letter+of+yours&source=bl&ots=DDWCA6FHyJ&sig=MyOOelB_Q2Fmd4jNObeyuptofsc&hl=en&ei=CYKiSvfaNof8MbOq3N0P&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=1#v=onepage&q=%22There's%20a%20singular%20and%20a%20perpetual%20charm%20in%20a%20letter%20of%20yours%22&f=false, circa 1889.

“We weep when we are born, not when we die!”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: "The Metempsychosis", The Poems of Thomas Bailey Aldrich (Boston: Houghton, Mifflin and Company, 1882), p. 139

“What is lovely never dies, but passes into other loveliness, star-dust, or sea-foam, flower or winged air.”

Thomas Bailey Aldrich

Source: "A Shadow of the Night", p. 26 note: Unguarded Gates and Other Poems (1895)

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