The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations (91 page)
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Cameron, Julia Margaret
1815–79
1815–79
1
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me.
I longed to arrest all beauty that came before me.
Annals of my Glass House
1874
Campbell, Jane Montgomery
1817–78
1817–78
1
We plough the fields, and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand.
We plough the fields, and scatter
The good seed on the land,
But it is fed and watered
By God's almighty hand.
"We plough the fields, and scatter" (1861 hymn); translated from the German of Matthias Claudius (1740–1815)
Campbell, Mrs Patrick
1865–1940
1865–1940
1
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
on her recent marriage
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
The deep, deep peace of the double-bed after the hurly-burly of the chaise-longue.
on her recent marriage
Alexander Woollcott
While Rome Burns
(1934) "The First Mrs Tanqueray"
It doesn't matter what you do in the bedroom as long as you don't do it in the street and frighten the horses.
Daphne Fielding
The Duchess of Jermyn Street
(1964) ch. 2
Campbell, Roy
1901–57
1901–57
1
You praise the firm restraint with which they write—
I'm with you there, of course:
They use the snaffle and the curb all right,
But where's the bloody horse?
You praise the firm restraint with which they write—
I'm with you there, of course:
They use the snaffle and the curb all right,
But where's the bloody horse?
"On Some South African Novelists" (1930)
Campbell, Thomas
1777–1844
1777–1844
1
O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Now Barabbas was a publisher.
also attributed, wrongly, to Byron
O leave this barren spot to me!
Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.
"The Beech-Tree's Petition" (1800).
On the green banks of Shannon, when Sheelah was nigh,
No blithe Irish lad was so happy as I;
No harp like my own could so cheerily play,
And wherever I went was my poor dog Tray.
"The Harper" (1799)
'Tis distance lends enchantment to the view,
And robes the mountain in its azure hue.
Pleasures of Hope
(1799) pt. 1, l. 7
Now Barabbas was a publisher.
also attributed, wrongly, to Byron
attributed, in Samuel Smiles
A Publisher and his Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the late John Murray
(1891) vol. 1, ch. 14; see
Campion, Thomas
1567–1620
1567–1620
1
There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
There is a garden in her face
Where roses and white lilies grow;
A heavenly paradise is that place,
Wherein all pleasant fruits do flow.
There cherries grow, which none may buy
Till "Cherry ripe" themselves do cry.
The Fourth Book of Airs
(
c.
1617) no. 7; music by Richard Alison, who published the song in
An Hour's Recreation in Music
(1606)
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