“… to the last I grapple with thee; from hell's heart I stab at thee; for hate's sake I spit my last breath at thee.”
Source: Moby-Dick or, The Whale
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Herman Melville144
American novelist, short story writer, essayist, and poet 1818–1891Related quotes
“When I died last, and dear, I die
As often as from thee I go.”
John Donne (1572–1631) English poet
The Legacy, stanza 1
Walter Raleigh (1554–1618) English aristocrat, writer, poet, soldier, courtier, spy, and explorer
The Lie (1608).
Elizabeth Barrett Browning book Sonnets from the Portuguese
No. LXIII
Sonnets from the Portuguese (1850)
Context: How do I love thee? Let me count the ways.
I love thee to the depth and breadth and height
My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight
For the ends of Being and ideal Grace.
I love thee to the level of everyday's
Most quiet need, by sun and candlelight.
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right;
I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise.
I love thee with the passion put to use
In my old griefs, and with my childhood's faith.
I love thee with a love I seemed to lose
With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath,
Smiles, tears, of all my life! —and, if God choose,
I shall but love thee better after death.
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(19th October 1822) Songs of Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
Thomas Moore (1779–1852) Irish poet, singer and songwriter
My Heart and Lute.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“I pray thee let me and my fellow have
A haire of the dog that bit us last night.”
John Heywood (1497–1580) English writer known for plays, poems and a collection of proverbs
Part I, chapter 11.
Proverbs (1546), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Variant: A heare of the dog that bote vs last night.
“For I have sworn thee fair, and thought thee bright,
Who art as black as hell, as dark as night.”
William Shakespeare book Shakespeare's Sonnets
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets