“Weep not, my wanton, smile upon my knee;
When thou art old there’s grief enough for thee.”
Robert Greene (dramatist) (1558–1592) English author
"Sephestia's Song to her Child", line 1, from Menaphon (1589); Dyce p. 286.
“Haste thee, Nymph, and bring with thee
Jest, and youthful jollity,
Quips and cranks and wanton wiles,
Nods and becks and wreathèd smiles.”
Source: L'Allegro (1631), Line 25
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Nods and becks…" by John Milton?
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English epic poet 1608–1674Related quotes
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In spirit done in thee,
As soon as thou from all
Thy sins hast set thee free.”
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Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 5.
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Pluck thou the rose: life is as swift for thee.”
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Collige, virgo, rosas, dum flos novus et nova pubes,
et memor esto aevum sic properare tuum.
"De Rosis Nascentibus", line 49; translation from Helen Waddell Mediaeval Latin Lyrics ([1929] 1943) p. 29.
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Spectator, No. 68.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
“Milk the ewe that thou hast, why pursue the thing that shuns thee?”
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Idyll 11, line 75; translation by Andrew Lang, from Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Rendered into English Prose ([1880] 1901) p. 63.
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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.