
“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
Source: Windsor Forest (1713), Line 131.
“The drop of rain maketh a hole in the stone, not by violence, but by oft falling.”
Seventh Sermon before Edward VI (1549)
“For oft have the common people kindlier feelings.”
Melior vulgi nam saepe voluntas.
Source: Argonautica, Book IV, Line 158
“What if he has borrowed the matter and spoiled the form, as it oft falls out?”
Book III, Ch. 8. Of the Art of Conversation
Essais (1595), Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919)
The Shepherd's Calendar: "July" (second version) http://www.photoaspects.com/chesil/clare/july2.html
Poems Chiefly from Manuscript
“How oft do they their silver bowers leave
To come to succour us that succour want!”
Canto 8, stanza 2
The Faerie Queene (1589–1596), Book II
“[…] faded smiles oft linger in the face,
While grief's first flakes fall silent on the head!”
Source: "Unseasonable Snows", line 13; p. 38, Lyrical Poems (1891)
“Strange secrets are let out by Death
Who blabs so oft the follies of this world.”
Part 2, line 112.
Paracelsus (1835)
Poem Matin Song http://www.bartleby.com/101/205.html
My Boy Friend’s Name is Jello (p. 95)
Short fiction, Or All the Seas with Oysters (1962)