| 48 Famous Quotes by Thomas Campbell
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“Whose sunbright summit mingles with the sky.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 4)
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“'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
Mountains Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 7)
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“Auspicious Hope! in thy sweet garden grow
Wreaths for each toil, a charm for every woe.”
Hope Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 45)
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“Cease, every joy, to glimmer in my mind,
But leave,--oh! leave the light of Hope behind!”
Hope Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 375)
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“And hears thy stormy music in the drum!”
Music Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I)
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“'Twas sung, how they were lovely in their lives,
And in their deaths had not divided been.”
Friends Quotes Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. 33)
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“Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame,
The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
Names Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 5)
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“There came to the beach a poor Exile of Erin,
The dew on his thin robe was heavy and chill;
For his country he sigh'd, when at twilight repairing.
To wander along by the wind-beaten hill.
But the day star attracted his eyes' sad devotion,
For it rose o'er his own native isle of the ocean,
Where once in the fire of his youthful emotion
He sang the bold anthem of Erin-go-bragh.”
Ireland Quotes Source: The Exile of Erin
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“The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began,
Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.”
Prophecy (prophesy) Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 43)
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“But, said as angels for the good man's sin,
Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Sin Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 357)
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“Oh, leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, space the beechen tree!”
Trees Quotes Source: The Beech-Tree's Petition
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“Lo! at the couch where infant beauty sleeps;
Her silent watch the mournful mother keeps;
She, while the lovely babe unconscious lies,
Smiles on her slumbering child with pensive eyes.”
Babyhood Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 225)
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“A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.”
Tears Quotes Source: Gertrude of Wyoming (pt. I, st. 23)
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“For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.”
Tears Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. I, l. 180)
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“When the stormy winds do blow;
When the battle rages loud and long,
And the stormy winds do blow.”
Wind Quotes Source: Ye Mariners of England
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“On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.”
Dogs Quotes Source: The Harper
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“His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.”
Dogs Quotes Source: Pleasure of Hope (pt. I, l. 86)
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“Mother of dead dogs.”
Dogs Quotes Source: Pleasure of Hope (pt. I, l. 86)
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“Out spoke the victor then,
As he hail'd them o'er the wave,
Ye are brothers! ye are men!
And we conquer but to save;
So peace instead of death let us bring;
But yield, proud foe, let us bring;
With the crews, at England's feet,
And make submission meet
To our King.”
Victory Quotes Source: The Battle of the Baltic
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“Victory has a hundred fathers, but defeat is an orphan.”
Victory Quotes Source: The Battle of the Baltic
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“O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there,
To waft us home the message of despair?”
Science Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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“What we might call, by way of Eminence, the Dismal Science.”
Science Quotes Source: Pleasures of Hope (pt. II, l. 325)
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“Triumphal arch, that fill'st the sky
When storms prepare to part,
I ask not proud Philosophy
To teach me what thou art.”
Rainbows Quotes Source: To the Rainbow
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