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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 3, st. 98.<br />

Ave Maria! ’tis the hour <strong>of</strong> prayer!<br />

Ave Maria! ’tis the hour <strong>of</strong> love!<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 3, st. 103<br />

Now my sere fancy ‘falls into the yellow<br />

Leaf,’ and imagination droops her pinion,<br />

And the sad truth which hovers o’er my desk<br />

Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 4, st. 3.<br />

And if I laugh at any mortal thing,<br />

’Tis that I may not weep.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 4, st. 4<br />

‘Whom the gods love die young’ was said <strong>of</strong> yore.<br />

And many deaths do they escape by this.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 4, st.12.<br />

I’ve stood upon Achilles’ tomb,<br />

And heard Troy doubted; time will doubt <strong>of</strong> Rome.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 4, st. 101<br />

When amatory poets sing their loves<br />

In liquid lines mellifluously bland,<br />

And pair their rhymes as Venus yokes her doves.<br />

<strong>The</strong>y little think what mischief is in store.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 5, st. 1<br />

And is this blood, then, form’d but to be shed?<br />

Can every element our elements mar?<br />

And air—earth—water—fire live—and we dead?<br />

We, whose minds comprehend all things?<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 5, st. 39<br />

That all-s<strong>of</strong>tening, overpowering knell,<br />

<strong>The</strong> tocsin <strong>of</strong> the soul—the dinner bell.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 5, st. 49<br />

Why don’t they knead two virtuous souls for life<br />

Into that moral centaur, man and wife?<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 5, st. 158<br />

<strong>The</strong>re is a tide in the affairs <strong>of</strong> women,<br />

Which, taken at the flood, leads—God knows where.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 6, st. 2.<br />

A lady <strong>of</strong> a ‘certain age’, which means<br />

Certainly aged.<br />

‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 6, st. 69

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