The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘The Latest Decalogue’ (1862)
’Tis better to have fought and lost,
Than never to have fought at all.
‘Peschiera’ (1854).
As ships, becalmed at eve, that lay
With canvas drooping, side by side,
Two towers of sail at dawn of day
Are scarce long leagues apart descried.
‘Qua Curam Ventus’ (1849)
Say not the struggle naught availeth,
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been, things remain.
‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’ (1855)
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars.
‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’ (1855)
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly,
But westward, look, the land is bright.
‘Say not the struggle naught availeth’ (1855)
What shall we do without you? Think where we are. Carlyle has led us all out into the desert,
and he has left us there.
Parting words to Ralph Waldo Emerson, 15 July 1848, in David Williams ‘Too Quick Despairer’ (1969) ch. 4
3.126 William Cobbett 1762-1835
Resolve to free yourselves from the slavery of the tea and coffee and other slop-kettle.
‘Advice to Young Men’ (1829) letter 1, sect. 31
Nouns of number, or multitude, such as Mob, Parliament, Rabble, House of Commons,
Regiment, Court of King’s Bench, Den of Thieves, and the like.
‘English Grammar’ (1817) letter 17 ‘Syntax as Relating to Pronouns’
From a very early age, I had imbibed the opinion, that it was every man’s duty to do all that lay
in his power to leave his country as good as he had found it.
‘Political Register’ 22 December 1832
But what is to be the fate of the great wen of all? The monster, called...’the metropolis of the
empire’?
‘Rural Rides’ (1830) referring to London
3.127 Alison Cockburn (nèe Rutherford) 1713-94
I’ve seen the smiling of Fortune beguiling,
I’ve felt all its favours and found its decay;
Sweet was its blessing, kind its caressing,