The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

‘Ode upon a Copy of Verses of My Lord Broghill’s’ (1663)
Poet and Saint! to thee alone are given
The two most sacred names of earth and Heaven.
‘On the Death of Mr Crashaw’ (1656)
Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow
On us, the Poets Militant below!
‘On the Death of Mr Crashaw’ (1656)
Ye fields of Cambridge, our dear Cambridge, say,
Have ye not seen us walking every day?
Was there a tree about which did not know
The love betwixt us two?
‘On the Death of Mr William Hervey’ (1656)
Life is an incurable disease.
‘To Dr Scarborough’ (1656) st. 6
3.189 Hannah Cowley (nèe Parkhouse) 1743-1809
Five minutes! Zounds! I have been five minutes too late all my life-time!
‘The Belle’s Stratagem’ (1780) act 1, sc. 1
Vanity, like murder, will out.
‘The Belle’s Stratagem’ (1780) act 1, sc. 4
But what is woman?—only one of Nature’s agreeable blunders.
‘Who’s the Dupe?’ (1779) act 2
3.190 William Cowper 1731-1800
No voice divine the storm allayed,
No light propitious shone;
When snatched from all effectual aid,
We perished, each alone:
But I beneath a rougher sea,
And whelmed in deeper gulfs than he.
‘The Castaway’ (written 1799) l. 61
Grief is itself a med’cine.
‘Charity’ (1782) l. 159
He found it inconvenient to be poor.
‘Charity’ (1782) l. 189 (of a burglar)
Spare the poet for his subject sake.
‘Charity’ (1782) l. 636
’Tis hard if all is false that I advance
A fool must now and then be right, by chance.
‘Conversation’ (1782) l. 95