Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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=Atheism.= By night an atheist half believes a God. 115 YOUNG: _Night Thoughts,_ Night v., Line 176. =Athens.= Ancient of days! august Athena! where, Where are thy men of might, thy grand in soul? Gone--glimmering through the dream of things that were First in the race that led to glory's goals They won, and pass'd away. 116 BYRON: _Ch. Harold,_ Canto ii., St. 2. Athens, the eye of Greece, mother of arts And eloquence. 117 MILTON: _Par. Regained,_ Bk. iv., Line 240. =Attempt.= The attempt and not the deed Confounds us. 118 SHAKS.: _Macbeth,_ Act ii., Sc. 2. |
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