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Come live in my heart, and pay no rent.
Circumstances are the rulers of the weak; they are but the instruments of the wise.
When once the itch of literature comes over a man, nothing can cure it but the scratching of a pen. But if you have not a pen, I suppose you must... →
Too little is it considered, while we gaze on aristocratic beauty, how much good food, soft lying, warm wrapping, ease of mind, have to do with the... →
Reproof on her lip, but a smile in her eye.
Oh, happy triumph of the poet! - to hear his verses wedded to sweet sounds, and warbled by the woman he loves!
My hearing has suffered seriously; just now I am obliged to have the assistance of an ear trumpet. Think of that, my beauty! - There 's a state... →
To return after long years of painful absence to some place which has been the scene of our former joys, and whence the force of circumstance, and... →
What is wine? It is the grape present in another form; its essence is there, though the fruit which produced it grew thousands of miles away, and... →
The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
Said will be a little ahead, but done should follow at his heel.
How many chapters have been written about love verses - and how many more might be written! - might, would, could, should, or ought to be written! -... →