St. 4.
The Kingdom of God http://www.bartleby.com/236/245.html (1913)
The Roxburghe Ballads (c. 1630), reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“As yet unfold the event on no pretense,
'Tis your chief task to keep us in suspense.”
Primus at ille labor versu tenuisse legentem
Suspensum, incertumque dia qui denique rerum
Eventus maneant.
Book I, line 98
De Arte Poetica (1527)
“Tis sin,
Nay, profanation to keep in.”
"Corinna's Going A-Maying".
Hesperides (1648)
“Tis strange what a man may do, and a woman yet think him an angel.”
Bk. I, ch. 7.
The History of Henry Esmond (1852)
“Friendship, 'tis said, is love without his wings,
And friendship, sir, is sweet enough for me.”
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act I, sc. ii; p. 35.
Argument Against the Writs of Assistance (1761)
The Caesars (c. 361)
Context: The trial that begins
Awards to him who wins
The fairest prize to-day.
And lo, the hour is here
And summons you. Appear!
Ye may no more delay.
Come hear the herald's call
Ye princes one and all.
Many tribes of men
Submissive to you then!
How keen in war your swords!
But now 'tis wisdom's turn;
Now let your rivals learn
How keen can be your words.
“…the wild flowers blooming in hushed solitude
Start not at the whispering, 'tis but the breeze”
from A Canadian Summer Evening
