“Four snakes gliding up and down a hollow for no purpose that I could see — not to eat, not for love, but only gliding.”
11 April 1834
1820s, Journals (1822–1863)
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James Russell Lowell (1819–1891) American poet, critic, editor, and diplomat
St. 3. <br class="br"> Ode Recited at the Harvard Commemoration http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/1169/ (July 21, 1865)
“So down thy hill, romantic Ashbourn, glides
The Derby dilly, carrying three INSIDES.”
George Canning (1770–1827) British statesman and politician
The Loves of the Triangles, line 178.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Bryan Procter (1787–1874) English poet
Touch us gently, Time, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare "Time has touched me gently in his race, And left no odious furrows in my face", George Crabbe, Tales of the Hall, Book xvii., The Widow.
“I dream of silent verses where the rhyme
Glides noiseless as an oar.”
Richard Aldington (1892–1962) English writer and poet
From At the British Museum Collected Poems, 1929
“Beneath those stars is a universe of gliding monsters.”
Herman Melville (1818–1891) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet
“Death glided by, shadowless, among the empties on the grass.”
Thomas Pynchon book The Crying of Lot 49
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
“An age that melts in unperceiv'd decay,
And glides in modest innocence away.”
Samuel Johnson (1709–1784) English writer
Source: Vanity of Human Wishes (1749), Line 293
William Blake (1757–1827) English Romantic poet and artist
Song (How Sweet I Roamed), st. 1
1780s, Poetical Sketches (1783)