“I love it, I love it, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
Eliza Cook (1818–1889) British writer
The old Arm-Chair, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Than Timoleon's arms require,
And Tully's curule chair, and Milton's golden lyre.”
Book I, Ode XVII: "On a Sermon against Glory", stanza ii, lines 17–18
Odes on Several Subjects (1745)
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