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William Collins
24 quotes
“In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell: 'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes blest!”
William Collins (1721–1759) first seen 1746 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode written in the year 1746.
“By fairy hands their knell is rung; By forms unseen their dirge is sung; There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray, To bless the turf that wraps their clay; And Freedom shall awhile repair, To dwell a weeping hermit there!”
William Collins (1721–1759) first seen 1746 wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Ode written in the year 1746. A variation of the first two lines is "By hands unseen the knell is rung; / By fairy forms their dirge is sung".
“Too nicely Jonson knew the critic's part; Nature in him was almost lost in Art.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“To fair Fidele's grassy tomb Soft maids and village hinds shall bring Each opening sweet of earliest bloom, And rifle all the breathing spring.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed; Beloved till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity’s self be dead.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Now air is hushed, save where the weak-eyed bat, With short shrill shriek flits by on leathern wing, Or where the beetle winds His small but sullen horn, As oft he rises 'midst the twilight path, Against the pilgrim borne in heedless hum.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“For when thy folding-star arising shows His paly circlet, at his warning lamp The fragrant hours, and elves Who slept in buds the day, And many a nymph who wreathes her brows with sedge And sheds the fresh'ning dew, and lovelier still, The pensive pleasures sweet Prepare thy shadowy car.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“When Music, heavenly maid, was young, While yet in early Greece she sung.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“With eyes up-raised, as one inspired, Pale Melancholy sate retired, And from her wild sequestered seat, In notes by distance made more sweet, Poured thro' the mellow horn her pensive soul.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Love of peace, and lonely musing, In hollow murmurs died away.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“O Music! sphere-descended maid, Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid!”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“By fairy hands their knell is rung, By forms unseen their dirge is sung.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“In yonder Grave a Druid lies Where slowly winds the Stealing Wave! The Year's best Sweets shall duteous rise To deck its Poet's sylvan Grave!”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But thou, lorn stream, whose sullen tide No sedge-crown'd sister now attend, Now waft me from the green hill's side Whose cold turf hides the buried friend!”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“He had employed his mind chiefly on works of fiction, and subjects of fancy; and, by indulging some peculiar habits of thought, was eminently delighted with those flights of imagination which pass the bounds of nature, and to which the mind is reconciled only by a passive acquiescence in popular traditions. He loved fairies, genii, giants, and monsters; he delighted to rove through the meanders of enchantment, to gaze on the magnificence of golden palaces, to repose by the waterfalls of Elysian gardens.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Samuel Johnson The Lives of the Most Eminent English Poets (1781), "William Collins
“How sleep the brave who sink to rest By all their country's wishes bless'd!”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In notes by distance made more sweet.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In hollow murmurs died away.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“In yonder grave a Druid lies.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source
“Each lonely scene shall thee restore; For thee the tear be duly shed, Belov'd till life can charm no more, And mourn'd till Pity's self be dead.”
William Collins (1721–1759) said by 1759 at the latest bartlett, Public domain source