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The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations Preface

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Where’s the cheek that doth not fade,<br />

Too much gazed at? Where’s the maid<br />

Whose lip mature is ever new?<br />

‘Fancy’ (1820) l. 69<br />

Where’s the face<br />

One would meet in every place?<br />

‘Fancy’ (1820) l. 73<br />

Four seasons fill the measure <strong>of</strong> the year;<br />

<strong>The</strong>re are four seasons in the mind <strong>of</strong> man.<br />

‘<strong>The</strong> Human Seasons’ (1819)<br />

Deep in the shady sadness <strong>of</strong> a vale<br />

Far sunken from the healthy breath <strong>of</strong> morn,<br />

Far from the fiery noon, and eve’s one star,<br />

Sat grey-haired Saturn, quiet as a stone.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 1<br />

No stir <strong>of</strong> air was there,<br />

Not so much life as on a summer’s day<br />

Robs not one light seed from the feathered grass,<br />

But where the dead leaf fell, there did it rest.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 7<br />

<strong>The</strong> Naiad ’mid her reeds<br />

Pressed her cold finger closer to her lips.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 13<br />

That large utterance <strong>of</strong> the early gods!<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 51<br />

O aching time! O moments big as years!<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 64<br />

As when, upon a trancéd summer-night,<br />

Those green-robed senators <strong>of</strong> mighty woods,<br />

Tall oaks, branch-charméd by the earnest stars,<br />

Dream, and so dream all night without a stir.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 72<br />

Sometimes eagle’s wings,<br />

Unseen before by gods or wondering men,<br />

Darkened the place.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 182<br />

And still they were the same bright, patient stars.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 1, l. 353<br />

Knowledge enormous makes a god <strong>of</strong> me.<br />

‘Hyperion: A Fragment’ (1820) bk. 3, l. 113

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