The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (143 page)

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Drayton, Michael
1563–1631
1
Ill news hath wings, and with the wind doth go,
Comfort's a cripple and comes ever slow.

The Barons' Wars
(1603) canto 2, st. 28

2
Since there's no help, come let us kiss and part,
Nay, I have done: you get no more of me,
And I am glad, yea glad with all my heart,
That thus so cleanly, I myself can free,
Shake hands for ever, cancel all our vows.

Idea
(1619) Sonnet 61

3
That shire which we the Heart of England well may call.
of Warwickshire

Poly-Olbion
(1612–22) Song 13, l. 2

4
Next these, learn'd Jonson, in this list I bring,
Who had drunk deep of the Pierian spring.

"To Henry Reynolds, of Poets and Poesy" (1627) l. 129.

5
Fair stood the wind for France
When we our sails advance,
Nor now to prove our chance
Longer will tarry.

To the Cambro-Britons
(1619) "Agincourt"

Drennan, William
1754–1820
1
Nor one feeling of vengeance presume to defile
The cause, or the men, of the Emerald Isle.

Erin
(1795) st. 3

Drinkwater, John
1882–1937
1
Deep is the silence, deep
On moon-washed apples of wonder.

"Moonlit Apples" (1917)

Driver, William
1803–86
1
I name thee Old Glory.
saluting a new flag hoisted on his ship, the Charles Doggett

attributed

Drummond, Thomas
1797–1840
1
Property has its duties as well as its rights.

letter to the Earl of Donoughmore, 22 May 1838

Drummond, William
of Hawthornden 1585–1649
1
Phoebus, arise,
And paint the sable skies,
With azure, white, and red.

"Song: Phoebus, arise" (1614)

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