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7 Quotes for 'William Collins' in the Database.
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William Collins Quotes
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
Topic: Bravery
Source: Ode, written in 1746
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Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part,
Nature in him was almost lost in art.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Epistle to Sir Thomas Hanmer on his Edition of Shakespeare
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But thou, O hope, with eyes so fair,
What was thy delighted measure?
Still it whisper'd promised pleasure,
And bade the lovely scenes at distance hail!
Topic: Hope
Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 29)
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And Hope enchanted smiled, and waved her golden hair.
Topic: Hope
Source: Ode on the Passions (l. 3)
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Filled with fury, rapt, inspir'd.
Topic: Passion
Source: The Passions (l. 10)
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The redbreast oft, at evening hours,
Shall kindly lend his little aid,
With hoary moss, and gathered flowers,
To deck the ground where thou art laid.
Topic: Robins
Source: Odes--Dirge in Cymbeline
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How sleep the brave, who sink to rest,
By all their country's wishes blest!
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By fairy hands their knell is rung,
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
Topic: Soldiers
Source: Ode, written in 1746
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