Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
The Last of the St. Aubyns
Heath's book of Beauty, 1833 (1832)
“For it stirs the blood in an old man’s heart,
And makes his pulses fly,
To catch the thrill of a happy voice
And the light of a pleasant eye.”
Saturday Afternoon.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (1919)
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Thomas Kibble Hervey (1799–1859) British poet and critic
The Devil's Progress (1849)
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882) American poet
The Secret of the Sea, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Happy who in his verse can gently steer
From grave to light, from pleasant to severe.”
John Dryden (1631–1700) English poet and playwright of the XVIIth century
The Art of Poetry, canto i, line 75.
Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
Edith Sitwell (1887–1964) British poet
Still Falls the Rain (1940)
Context: See, see where Christ's blood streames in the firmament:
It flows from the Brow we nailed upon the tree Deep to the dying, to the thirsting heart
That holds the fires of the world, — dark-smirched with pain
As Caesar's laurel crown. Then sounds the voice of One who like the heart of man
Was once a child who among beasts has lain —
"Still do I love, still shed my innocent light, my Blood, for thee."
“Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood”
Daniel Burnham (1846–1912) American architect and urban designer
Burnham (1907) quoted in: Charles Moore (1921) Daniel H. Burnham, Architect, Planner of Cities. Volume 2 http://archive.org/stream/danielhburnhamar02moor#page/n7/mode/2up. Chapter XXV "Closing in 1911-1912;" p. 147 http://archive.org/stream/danielhburnhamar02moor#page/147/mode/1up <br class="br">Context: Make no little plans; they have no magic to stir men's blood and probably themselves will not be realized. Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will never die, but long after we are gone be a living thing, asserting itself with ever-growing insistency. Remember that our sons and our grandsons are going to do things that would stagger us. Let your watchword be order and your beacon beauty.
Stanley Baldwin (1867–1947) Former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
Speech to the Byron centenary luncheon (29 April 1924), quoted in On England, and Other Addresses (1926), pp. 123-124.
1924
George Gissing book The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft
Winter § I, p. 213
The Private Papers of Henry Ryecroft (1903)