Ambrose Philips quotes
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“The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.”
-- Ambrose PhilipsSource : 'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47
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“And thou shalt in thy daughter see, This picture, once, resembled thee.”
-- Ambrose PhilipsSource : Thomas Parnell, Ambrose Philips (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.365
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“Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.”
-- Ambrose PhilipsSource : Ambrose Philips (1768). “Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems”, p.67
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