24 Famous Quotes by Robert Pollok
10/19/1798 - 9/15/1827
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About Robert Pollok
Robert Pollok was a Scottish poet best known for his work, The Course of Time, published in the year of his death.
Pollok was born at North Moorhouse Farm, Loganswell Renfrewshire, Scotland. Sources differ on the exact year of his birth, some giving 1789, some 1798, and some 1799. He studied at the University of Glasgow for the ministry of the United Secession Church. During this time, he anonymously published three poems: Helen of the Glen, The Persecuted Family, and Ralph Gemmell. After Pollok's death, these would be published together under his name as Tales of the Covenanters.
In 1827, shortly before leaving the university, Pollok published what was to be his final and most famous work, The Course of Time, a ten-book poem in blank verse. By its fourth edition, The Course of Time had sold 78,000 copies and was popular as far away as North America.
Later that year, suffering from tuberculosis, Pollok was advised by his doctors to travel to Italy. He left Scotland with this intention, but his health worsened rapidly, and he died at Shirley on the 15th of September.
He was buried in the nearby churchyard of St Nicholas, Millbrook. When the church was demolished, his memorial obelisk was removed and now stands in the grounds of Holy Trinity Church, Millbrook. Another monument to Pollok stands in Newton Mearns, Scotland, at the junction of the Glasgow/Ayr Road and the Old Mearns Road. It was unveiled on September 24, 1900, and bears the inscription "Robert Pollok, Author of 'The Course of Time' / Born 1798 Died 1827 / He soared untrodden heights and seemed at home".
He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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All seems infected that th' infected spy,
As all looks yellow to the jaundiced eye.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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But when to mischief mortals bend their will,
How soon they find fit instruments of ill.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Fair tresses man's imperial race ensnare,
And beauty draws us with a single hair.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Friend, for your epitaph I'm grieved,
Where still so much is said;
One half will never be believed,
The other never read.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Get money, money still!
And then let virtue follow, if she will.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Get wealth and power, if possible by grace,
If not, by any means, get wealth and place.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done
When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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'Tis all in vain to keep a constant pother
About one vice and fall into another.
Proverbs
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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He was a man
Who stole the livery of the court of Heaven
To serve the devil in.
Hypocrisy
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 616)
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Most wondrous book! bright candle of the Lord!
Star of Eternity! The only star
By which the bark of man could navigate
The sea of life, and gain the coast of bliss
Securely.
Scripture
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. II, l. 270)
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On his weary couch
Fat Luxury, sick of the night's debauch,
Lay groaning, fretful at the obtrusive beam
That through his lattice peeped derisively.
Luxury
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VII, l. 69)
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He sat among his bags, and, with a look
Which hell might be ashamed of, drove the poor
Away unalmed; and midst abundance died--
Sorest of evils!--died of utter want.
Misers
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 276)
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'Twas slander filled her mouth with lying words;
Slander, the foulest whelp of Sin.
Slander
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. VIII, l. 725)
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Mercy stood in the cloud, with eye that wept
Essential love.
Mercy
Quotes, by Robert Pollok , Source: Course of Time (bk. III, l. 658)
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