Isaac McLellan quotes
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“E'en Beauty mourns in her decaying bower, That Time upon her angel brow should set His crooked autograph, and mar the jet Of glossy locks. Lo! how her chaplet green, The ***** frost and the canker worm destroy. Decay's dull film obscures those matchless eyes.”
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.25
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“Time's flying wheel leaves little trace behind.”
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23
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“On every thing are traced decay and change. Look! how the shifting seasons slip away.”
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.22
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“The rich pearl of life, Soon moulders in its blackened urn, the tomb.”
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.23
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“Go and walk with Nature; thou wilt find Full many a gem in her enchanted cup.”
-- Isaac McLellanSource : Isaac McLellan (1830). “The Fall of the Indian: With Other Poems”, p.27
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Source : A. E. Housman (2012). “A Shropshire Lad”, p.11, Courier Corporation
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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“Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.”
Source : Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.63, Lulu.com
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Source : Adelaide Anne Procter (1858). “Legends and Lyrics: A Book of Verses”, p.155
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“Hell was created for the devil and his angels. If you go, you are an intruder.”
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