“… 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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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.”
The Legacy, stanza 1
The Lie (1608).
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.
(19th October 1822) Songs of Absence
The London Literary Gazette, 1821-1822
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.”
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.”
Source: Shakespeare's Sonnets