The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

And shivering-sweet to the touch?
O why do you walk through the fields in gloves,
Missing so much and so much?
‘To a Fat Lady seen from the Train’ (1910).
A young Apollo, golden-haired,
Stands dreaming on the verge of strife,
Magnificently unprepared
For the long littleness of life.
‘Youth’ (1910) (on Rupert Brooke)
3.177 Francis Macdonald Cornford 1874-1943
Every public action, which is not customary, either is wrong, or, if it is right, is a dangerous
precedent. It follows that nothing should ever be done for the first time.
‘Microcosmographia Academica’ (1908) p. 28
3.178 Mme Cornuel 1605-94
Il n’y a point de hèros pour son valet de chambre.
No man is a hero to his valet.
In ‘Lettres de Mlle Aïssè á Madame C’ (1787) letter 13 ‘De Paris, 1728’
3.179 Coronation Service
We present you with this Book, the most valuable thing that this world affords. Here is
wisdom; this is the royal Law; these are the lively Oracles of God.
The Presenting of the Holy Bible. L. G. Wickham Legge ‘English Coronation Records’ (1901) p. 334
3.180 Correggio (Antonio Allegri Correggio) c.1489-1534
Anch’io sono pittore!
I, too, am a painter!
On seeing Raphael’s ‘St Cecilia’ at Bologna, c.1525
3.181 William Cory (William Johnson, later Cory) 1823-92
Jolly boating weather,
And a hay harvest breeze,
Blade on the feather,
Shade off the trees
Swing, swing together
With your body between your knees.
‘Eton Boating Song’ in ‘Eton Scrap Book’ (1865). E. Parker ‘Floreat’ (1923) p. 109
Nothing in life shall sever
The chain that is round us now.