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6 Quotes for 'Phineas Fletcher' in the Database.
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Phineas Fletcher Quotes
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Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Topic: Apparel
Source: Sicelides (act II, sc. 4)
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Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.
Topic: Christianity
Source: None
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Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.
Topic: Dress
Source: None
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When needs he must, yet faintly then he praises;
Somewhat the deed, much more the means he raises:
So marreth what he makes, and praising most, dispraises.
Topic: Praise
Source: The Purple Island (canto VII, st. 67)
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Long open panegyric drags at best,
And praise is only praise when well address'd.
Topic: Praise
Source: The Purple Island (canto VII, st. 67)
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The dying swan, when years her temples pierce,
In music-strains breathes out her life and verse,
And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.
Topic: Swans
Source: Purple Island (canto I)
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