
Oh Breathe Not His Name, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Source: Savonarola (1881), Candida to Valori in Act IV, sc. iv; p. 264.
Oh Breathe Not His Name, st. 1.
Irish Melodies http://www.musicanet.org/robokopp/moore.html (1807–1834)
Faith is better than feeling.
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 244.
“Words that weep and tears that speak.”
The Prophet; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Thoughts that breathe, and words that burn", Thomas Gray, Progress of Poesy, iii. 3, 4.
“Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.”
Alexander Frag. 44
"He sendeth Sun, he sendeth Shower", reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 282; and in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“Her love was entire as a child’s, and though warm as summer it was fresh as spring.”
Source: Far From The Madding Crowd