Frasi di Nathaniel Cotton

Nathaniel Cotton è stato un poeta e medico inglese.



✵ 1707 – 2. Agosto 1788
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Nathaniel Cotton: Frasi in inglese

“To be resign'd when ills betide,
Patient when favours are deni'd,
And pleas'd with favours given,—
Dear Chloe, this is wisdom's part;
This is that incense of the heart
Whose fragrance smells to heaven.”

Nathaniel Cotton

The Fireside, stanza 11, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The incense of the heart may rise", Pierpont, Every Place a Temple, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Hold the fleet angel fast until he bless thee.”

Nathaniel Cotton

To-morrow, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Thus hand in hand through life we'll go;
Its checker'd paths of joy and woe
With cautious steps we'll tread”

Nathaniel Cotton

The Fireside, Stanza 31, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“Yet still we hug the dear deceit.”

Nathaniel Cotton

Content, Vision iv, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

“How great his theft, who robs himself!”

Nathaniel Cotton

"Pleasure"
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