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Henry Austin Dobson
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“A retrospect of the Eighteenth-Century Essayists subsequent to the ',' ',' and ',' only serves to confirm the supremacy of Addison and Steele. Some of their successors approached them in serious writing; others carried the lighter kinds to considerable perfection; but none (Goldsmith alone excepted) really rivaled them in that happily mingling of the lively and severe, which Johnson envied but could not emulate.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Old books, old wine, old Nankin blue;— All things, in short, to which belong The charm, the grace that Time makes strong,— All these I prize, but (entre nous) Old friends are best.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) first seen 1884 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: To Richard Watson Gilder" (1884), line 8, in Carmina Votiva (London: Printed for private circulation, 1901), p. 68.
“Fame is a food that dead men eat,— I have no stomach for such meat.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) first seen 1906 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Fame Is a Food That Dead Men Eat" (1906), line 1, in Collected Poems (London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co. Ltd, 1913), p. 569.
“Love comes unseen,—we only see it go.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Carry his body hence,— Kings must have slaves; Kings climb to eminence Over men's graves: So this man's eye is dim;— Throw the earth over him.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“And round about its gray, time-eaten brow Lean letters speak—a worn and shattered row: I am a Shade: a Shadowe too arte thou: I marke the Time: saye, Gossip, dost thou soe?”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O English girl, divine, demure, To YOU I sing!”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! Alas, Time stays, we go.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All passes. ART alone Enduring stays to us: The Bust out-lasts the throne,— The Coin, Tiberius.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The ladies of St. James’s! They’re painted to the eyes; Their white it stays forever Their red it never dies: But Phillida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,— It wavers to a rose.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“All the seasons run their race In this quiet resting place; Peach, and apricot, and fig Here will ripen, and grow big; Here is store and overplus,— More had not Alcinoüs!”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In merest prudence men should teach […] That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings— E'en angels' wings!—are fictions.”
Henry Austin Dobson (1840–1921) said by 1921 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source