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Eliza Cook
4 quotes
“I love it, I love it; and who shall dare To chide me for loving that old arm-chair?”
Eliza Cook (1812–1889) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Old Arm-Chair", st. 1. Melaia, and Other Poems (London: Charles Tilt, 1840) p. 55
“How cruelly sweet are the echoes that start When Memory plays an old tune on the heart.”
Eliza Cook (1812–1889) first seen 1840 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Old Dobbin", st. 16. Melaia, &c. (1840) p. 82
“Better build school-rooms for "the boy," Than cells and gibbets for "the man.”
Eliza Cook (1812–1889) first seen 1849 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: A Song for the Ragged Schools", st. 12. Eliza Cook's Journal, vol. 1 (October 1849) p. 288
“On what strange stuff Ambition feeds.”
Eliza Cook (1812–1889) first seen 1869 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Poor Hood", st. 4. Poetical Works (London: Frederick Warne & Co. 1869) p. 577