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5 Quotes for 'William Falconer' in the Database.
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William Falconer Quotes
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Thou living ray of intellectual fire.
Topic: Intellect
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, l. 104)
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I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has
endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to
forgo their use.
Topic: Intellect
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, l. 104)
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Again she plunges! hark! a second shock
Bilges the splitting vessel on the rock;
Down on the vale of death, with dismal cries,
The fated victims shuddering cast their eyes
In wild despair; while yet another stroke
With strong convulsion rends the solid oak:
Ah Heaven!--behold her crashing ribs divide!
She loosens, parts, and spreads in ruin o'er the tide.
Topic: Shipwreck
Source: Shipwreck (canto III, l. 642)
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High in his chariot glow'd the lamp of day.
Topic: Sun
Source: The Shipwreck (canto I, III, l. 3)
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The sacred lamp of day
Now dipt in western clouds his parting day.
Topic: Sunset
Source: The Shipwreck (canto II, l. 27)
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