“A gaudy dress and gentle air May slightly touch the heart;
But it's innocence and modesty
that polished the dart.”
Handsome Nell (1773) (also known as "My Handsome Nell"), st. 6.
Johnson's The Scots Musical Museum (1787-1796)
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Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext03/7cncd10.txt (1849), Wednesday
William Winter (1836–1917) American writer
I. H. Bromley, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
William Golding book Lord of the Flies
Source: Lord of the Flies (1954), Ch. 12: The Cry of the Hunters
Context: His voice rose under the black smoke before the burning wreckage of the island; and infected by that emotion, the other little boys began to shake and sob too. And in the middle of them, with filthy body, matted hair, and unwiped nose, Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man's heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.
Thomas Warton book The History of English Poetry
The History of English Poetry (1774-81) vol. 1, p. 431.
“Satire should, like a polished razor keen,
Wound with a touch that's scarcely felt or seen.”
Mary Wortley Montagu (1689–1762) writer and poet from England
To the Imitator of the First Satire of Horace, Book ii.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Antonio Simeone Sografi (1759–1818) Italian playwright
La verecondia delle donzelle è come l’acquavite. È perfetta sine a tanto che si tiene ben chiusa, ma se prende l’aria, vela subito via.
Olivo e Pasquale, Act I., Sc. VII. — (Pasquale.). Translation reported in Harbottle's Dictionary of quotations French and Italian (1904), p. 349.
