Henry Austin Dobson quotes
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“Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go.”
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : Proverbs in Porcelain (1877) "Paradox of Time"
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“Fame is a food that dead men eat, I have no stomach for such meat.”
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : 'Fame is a Food' (1906)
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“He is a Patron who looks down, / With careless eyes on men who drown; / But if they chance to reach the land, / Encumbers them with helping hand”
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“In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar,-O, they fish with all nets In the School of Coquettes! When her brooch she forgets 'Tis to show her new collar; In the School of Coquettes Madam Rose is a scholar!”
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“The ladies of St. James's! They're painted to the eyes; Their white is stays for ever, Their red it never dies; But Phyllida, my Phillida! Her colour comes and goes; It trembles to a lily,-- It wavers to a rose.”
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : 'The Ladies of St James's' (1883)
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“All passes, Art alone Enduring stays to us; The Bust out-lasts the throne,-- The coin, Tiberius.”
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : 'Ars Victrix'
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“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 Alcinous!”
-- Henry Austin DobsonSource : Henry Austin Dobson, “A Garden Song”
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“Love comes unseen; we only see it go.”
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“O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle! See the couples advance - O, Love's but a dance! A whisper, a glance, "Shall we twirl down the middle?" O, Love's but a dance, Where Time plays the fiddle!”
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“In merest prudence men should teach . . . That science ranks as monstrous things Two pairs of upper limbs; so wings-- E'en Angel's wings!--are fictions.”
-- Henry Austin Dobson
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