“I cannot speak
In happy tones”
Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 514.
Context: I cannot speak
In happy tones; the tear drops on my cheek
Show I am sad;
But I can speak
Of grace to suffer with submission meek,
Until made glad.
I cannot feel
That all is well, when dark'ning clouds conceal
The shining sun;
But then I know
God lives and loves; and say, since it is so,
"Thy will be done."
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Preface to Poets & Poetry of Scotland Vol 1 , Blackie & Son , Edinburgh 1876
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What are the wild Waves saying? Refrain, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The Muse gave the Greeks their native character, and allowed them to speak in noble tones, they who desired nothing but praise.”
Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo
Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . .
Grais ingenium, Grais dedit ore rotundo
Musa loqui, præter laudem nullius avaris. . .
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Ars Poetica, or The Epistle to the Pisones (c. 18 BC)
Source: At the Back of the North Wind (1871), Chapter 18
