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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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From whence his mother rose.<br />

‘Love still has something’<br />

Phyllis, without frown or smile,<br />

Sat and knotted all the while.<br />

‘Phyllis Knotting’<br />

Phyllis is my only joy,<br />

Faithless as the winds or seas;<br />

Sometimes coming, sometimes coy,<br />

Yet she never fails to please.<br />

‘Song’<br />

She deceiving,<br />

I believing;<br />

What need lovers wish for more?<br />

‘Song’<br />

7.50 Alan Seeger 1888-1916<br />

I have a rendezvous with Death<br />

At some disputed barricade,<br />

When Spring comes round with rustling shade<br />

And apple blossoms fill the air.<br />

I have a rendezvous with Death<br />

When Spring brings back blue days and fair.<br />

‘I Have a Rendezvous with Death’ (1916)<br />

7.51 Pete Seeger 1919—<br />

Where have all the flowers gone?<br />

Title <strong>of</strong> song (1961).<br />

7.52 Sir John Seeley 1834-95<br />

We [the English] seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit <strong>of</strong><br />

absence <strong>of</strong> mind.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Expansion <strong>of</strong> England’ (1883) Lecture 1<br />

History is past politics, and politics present history.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Growth <strong>of</strong> British Policy’<br />

7.53 Erich Segal 1937—<br />

Love means not ever having to say you’re sorry.<br />

‘Love Story’ (1970) ch. 13<br />

7.54 John Selden 1584-1654<br />

Scrutamini scripturas [Let us look at the scriptures]. <strong>The</strong>se two words have undone the world.

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