Frasi di John Dyer

“Disparting towers
Trembling all precipitate down dash’d,
Rattling around, loud thundering to the moon.”

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John Dyer

The Ruins of Rome (1740), line 40.

“Ever charming, ever new,
When will the landscape tire the view?”

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John Dyer Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill (1727), line 102.

“A little rule, a little sway,
A sunbeam in a winter’s day,
Is all the proud and mighty have
Between the cradle and the grave.”

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John Dyer Grongar Hill

Grongar Hill (1727), line 88.

“A man may go to heaven without health, without riches, without honors, without learning, without friends; but he can never go there without Christ.”

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Reported in Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), p. 88.