“Doth then the world go thus, doth all thus move?
Is this the justice which on Earth we find?
Is this that firm decree which all doth bind?
Are these your influences, Powers above?”
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William Drummond of Hawthornden 13
British writer 1585–1649Related quotes
“And this doth overpass all other pain,
To find that our last hope is all in vain.”
Ed ogni altro martir passa ed avanza
Trovarsi vana l'ultima speranza.
XXIX, 13
Rifacimento of Orlando Innamorato
“See, the night doth enfold us! See, all the world lies sleeping!”
“The world in all doth but two nations bear —
The good, the bad; and these mixed everywhere.”
The Loyal Scot (1650-1652).
“Love's whole world on us doth wheel.”
The Definition of Love (1650-1652)
“Not that the earth doth yield
In hill or dale, in forest or in field,
A rarer plant.”
First Week, Third Day. Compare: "Come live with me, and be my love; And we will all the pleasures prove That hills and valleys, dales and fields, Woods or steepy mountain yields", Christopher Marlowe, The Passionate Shepherd to his Love.
La Semaine; ou, Création du monde (1578)
Now this is very different in the case of men, for theirs is a double nature mixed up in one, that of soul and body; the former divine, the latter full of darkness and obscurity: hence naturally arise warfare and discord between the two.
Upon the Sovereign Sun (362)
“Who in life’s battle firm doth stand
Shall bear hope’s tender blossoms
Into the silent land!”
The Silent Land, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).