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Winthrop Mackworth Praed
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“And oh! I shall find how, day by day, All thoughts and things look older; How the laugh of pleasure grows less gay, And the heart of friendship colder.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Twenty-eight and Twenty-nine" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 212.
“She was our queen, our rose, our star; And then she danced—O Heaven, her dancing!”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: The Belle of the Ball" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 139.
“Some lie beneath the churchyard stone, And some before the speaker.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Also quoted by: W. M. Praed
“I remember, I remember How my childhood fleeted by,— The mirth of its December And the warmth of its July.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: I remember, I remember" in The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed (published 1860) p. 248. Compare: " I remember, I remember / The house where I was born", Thomas Hood, I remember, I remember.
Also quoted by: W. M. Praed
“His partners at the whist-club said That he was faultless in his dealings.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Dame Fortune is a fickle gipsy, And always blind, and often tipsy; Sometimes for years and years together, She ’ll bless you with the sunniest weather, Bestowing honour, pudding, pence, You can’t imagine why or whence;— Then in a moment—Presto, pass!— Your joys are withered like the grass;”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“John Bull was beat at Waterloo! They’ll swear to that in France.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“Of science and logic he chatters, As fine and as fast as he can; Though I am no judge of such matters, I’m sure he’s a talented man.”
Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1802–1839) said by 1839 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source