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| British Voices Quotations by Prominent Figures of the Romantic Age |
| Bliss was it on that dawn to be alive... France standing on the top of golden hours And human nature seemed born again. William Wordsworth, The Prelude |
| But yet I know, where'er I go. That there hath past away a glory from the earth... nothing can bring back the hour Of splendor in the grass, of glory in the flower. William Wordsworth, "Ode; Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood" |
| Poetry is not the proper antithesis to prose, but to science. Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Definitions of Poetry |
| One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other. Jane Austin, Emma |
| It is a truth universally acknowledged that a man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife. Jane Austin, Pride and Prejudice |
| Clear writers, like fountains, do not seem so deep as they are. Charles Lamb, Imaginary Conversation |
| I love not man the less, but Nature more. George Gordon, Lord Byron, Childe Harold's Pilgrimage |
| If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind? Percy Bysshe Shelley, "Ode to the West Wind" |
| The poetry of earth is never dead. John Keats, "Sonnet: On the Grasshopper and the Cricket." |
| "Beauty is truth, truth beauty"----that is all Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know. John Keats, "Ode on a Grecian Urn" |
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| British Voices Quotations by Prominent Figures of the Victorian Age |
| Man is a tool~making animal. Thomas Carlyle, Sartor Resartus |
| Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret. Benjamin Disraeli, Coningsby |
| If thou must love me, let it be for naught Except for love's sake only. Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese |
| The only purpose for which power can be rightfully exercised over any member of a civalized community, against his will, is to prevent harm to others. John Stuart Mill, On Liberty |
| You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side. William E. Gladstone in a speech on the Second Reform Bill |
| It's them as take advantage that get adcantage i' this world. George Elliot, Adam Bede |
| 'This better to have loved and lost Than never to have loved at all. Alfred, Lord Tennyson, In Memoriam, A.H.H. |
| A man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for? Robert Browning, "Andrea del Sarto" |
| He had used the word in its Pickwickian sense. Charles Dickens, The Pickwick Papers |
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| Famous Writer's of the Romantic Age... |
| William Wordsworth 1770 ~ 1850 |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1772 ~ 1834 |
| George Gordon, Lord Byron 1788 ~ 1824 |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley 1792 ~ 1822 |
| John Keats 1795 ~ 1821 |
| Mary Shelley 1797 ~ 1851 |
| Famous Writer's of the Victorian Age |
| Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1809 ~ 1892 |
| Robert Browning 1812 ~ 1889 |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 ~ 1861 |
| Charles Dickens 1812 ~ 1870 |
| Matthew Arnold 1822 ~ 1888 |
| Thomas Hardy 1840 ~ 1928 |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins 1844 ~ 1889 |
| A. E. Housman 1859 ~ 1936 |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1828 ~ 1882 |
| George Meredith 1828 ~ 1909 |
| Christina Rossetti 1830 ~ 1894 |
| Rudyard Kipling 1856 ~ 1936 |
| Emily Bronte 1818 ~ 1848 |
| Charlotte Bronte 1816 ~ 1855 |
| William Makepeace Thackeray 1811 ~ 1863 |
| Anthony Trollope 1815 ~ 1882 |
| Elizabeth Gaskell 1810 ~ 1865 |
| Samuel Butler 1835 ~ 1902 |
| Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 ~ 1894 |
| Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 1859 ~ 1930 |
| Jane Austin 1775 ~ 1817 |
| Sir Walter Scott 1771 ~ 1832 |
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