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Charles Stuart Calverley
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“Now the "rosy morn appearing" Floods with light the dazzled heaven; And the schoolboy groans on hearing That eternal clock strike seven:- Now the waggoner is driving Towards the fields his clattering wain; Now the bluebottle, reviving, Buzzes down his native pane.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode - "On a Distant Prospect" of Making a Fortune, from Verses and Translations (1862).
“White is the wold, and ghostly The dank and leafless trees; And 'M's and 'N's are mostly Pronounced like 'B's and 'D's: 'Neath bleak sheds, ice-encrusted, The sheep stands, mute and stolid: And ducks find out, disgusted, That all the ponds are solid.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Dirge, from Verses and Translations (1862).
“O Beer! O Hodgson, Guinness, Allsop, Bass! Names that should be on every infant's tongue! Shall days and months and years and centuries pass, And still your merits be unrecked, unsung? Oh! I have gazed into my foaming glass, And wished that lyre could yet again be strung Which once rang prophet-like through Greece, and taught her Misguided sons that "the best drink was water.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) first seen 1862 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Beer, from Verses and Translations (1862).
“I have a liking old For thee, though manifold Stories, I know, are told Not to thy credit; How one (or two at most) Drops make a cat a ghost— Useless, except to roast— Doctors have said it:How they who use fusees All grow by slow degrees Brainless as chimpanzees, Meagre as lizards; Go mad, and beat their wives; Plunge (after shocking lives) Razors and carving knives Into their gizzards.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“I sit alone at present, dreaming darkly of a Dun.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: In the Gloaming; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“I can not sing the old songs now! It is not that I deem them low; ’T is that I can’t remember how They go.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Changed; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“O my own, my beautiful, my blue-eyed! To be young once more and bite my thumb At the world and all its cares with you, I’d Give no inconsiderable sum.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: First Love; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“The farmer’s daughter hath soft brown hair (Butter and eggs and a pound of cheese) And I met with a ballad, I can’t say where, That wholly consisted of lines like these.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ballad; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).
“’T was ever thus from childhood’s hour! My fondest hopes would not decay: I never loved a tree or flower Which was the first to fade away.”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Disaster; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare:
“Forever; ’t is a single word! Our rude forefathers deemed it two: Can you imagine so absurd A view?”
Charles Stuart Calverley (1831–1884) said by 1884 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Forever; reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).