“Patience! Hence—that word was made
For brutes of burthen, not for birds of prey;
Preach it to mortals of a dust like thine,—
I am not of thine order.”
Act II, scene i.
Manfred (1817)
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George Gordon Byron227
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“Those two fatal words, Mine and Thine.”
Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616) Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
Source: Don Quixote de la Mancha (1605–1615), Part I, Book II, Ch. 3.
Alice Cary (1820–1871) American writer
"Reconciled" in A Memorial of Alice and Phoebe Cary: with some of their later poems (1875) edited by Mary Clemmer Ames, p. 182.
George Gordon Byron Sardanapalus
Act IV, scene 1.
Sardanapalus (1821)
Context: But take this with thee: if I was not form'd
To prize a love like thine, a mind like thine,
Nor dote even on thy beauty — as I've doted
On lesser charms, for no cause save that such
Devotion was a duty, and I hated
All that look'd like a chain for me or others
(This even rebellion must avouch); yet hear
These words, perhaps among my last — that none
E'er valued more thy virtues, though he knew not
To profit by them…
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
Friendship's Offering, 1827 (1826) Song
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(29th March 1823) Song - The dream on the pillow.
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Frances Ridley Havergal (1836–1879) British poet and hymn-writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 515.
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Source: Attributed from postum publications, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 72.