Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
“I will not let thee go.
I hold thee by too many bands:
Thou sayest farewell, and lo!
I have thee by the hands,
And will not let thee go.”
I Will Not Let Thee Go http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6639&poem=30254, st. 7.
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I hold thee by too many bands:
Thou sayest farewell, and lo!
I have thee by the hands,
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“I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
(1806–1861) English poet, author
St. 23 -24.
De Profundis (1862)
Context: p>I praise Thee while my days go on;
I love Thee while my days go on:
Through dark and dearth, through fire and frost,
With emptied arms and treasure lost,
I thank Thee while my days go on.And having in thy life-depth thrown
Being and suffering (which are one),
As a child drops his pebble small
Down some deep well, and hears it fall
Smiling — so I. THY DAYS GO ON.</p
Alexander Maclaren
(1826–1910) British minister
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 100.
“Go poor Devil, get thee gone, why should I hurt thee?”
This world surely is wide enough to hold both thee and me.
Book II, Ch. 12 (Uncle Toby to the fly).
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (1760-1767)
Of Solitude, vii; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Let not the pleasing many thee delight,
First judge if those whom thou dost please judge right.”
John Denham
(1615–1669) English poet and courtier
Source: Of Prudence (1668), line 229
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(1802–1838) English poet and novelist
(27th September 1823) Extracts from my Pocket Book. Song
The London Literary Gazette, 1823
“Come forth I charge thee, arise,
Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes!”
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(1809–1892) British poet laureate
Ode to Memory (1830)
Context: Come forth I charge thee, arise,
Thou of the many tongues, the myriad eyes!
Thou comest not with shows of flaunting vines
Unto mine inner eye,
Divinest Memory!
Falk, in a statement rich with ironies.
Love's Comedy (1862)
James Matthews Legaré
(1823–1859) American writer
To a Lily, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).