"Marvell" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... green-wood flowers Upon the grave that grew, And marvell'd much that bonny boy To see their ...
— Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border, Vol. II (of 3) • Walter Scott
... stands Palfrey now, as Marvell stood, Loyal to Truth dethroned, nor could be wooed To trust the playful tiger's velvet paws: And if the second Charles brought in decay Of ancient virtue, if it well might wring Souls that had broadened 'neath a nobler day, To see a losel, marketable king Fearfully watering with ...
— The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell • James Lowell
... humble dwelling is the widow's home; There live a pair, for various fortunes known, But the blind EUen will relate her own; - Yet ere we hear the story she can tell, On prouder sorrows let us briefly dwell. I've often marvell'd, when, by night, by day, I've mark'd the manners moving in my way, And heard the language and beheld the lives Of lass and lover, goddesses and wives, That books, which promise much of life to give, Should show so little how we truly ...
— The Borough • George Crabbe
... this poem was originally attr. to Milton, hence Cowper's inclusion of it. It has since been recognized as the work of Marvell. ...
— Poemata (William Cowper, trans.) • John Milton
... the glorious name," says a biographer of Andrew Marvell (editing an issue of that poet's works which certainly has its faults), "of the British Aristides." The portly dulness of the mind that could make such a phrase, and having made, award it, is not, in fairness, to affect a reader's thought of Marvell himself nor ...
— Flower of the Mind • Alice Meynell |
