Samuel Daniel

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• The greatest works of admiration,
  And all the fair examples of renown.
  Out of distress and misery are grown.
  • Earl of Southampton.

• As that the walls worn thin, permit the mind
  To look out thorough, and his frailty find. 1
  • History of the Civil War (1595), Book iv, Stanza 84, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "The soul's dark cottage, batter'd and decay'd, Lets in new light through chinks that Time has made", Edmund Waller, Verses upon his Divine Poesy.

• Sacred religion! mother of form and fear.
  • Musophilus (1599), Stanza 57, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• And for the few that only lend their ear,

• • Musophilus (1599), Stanza 97, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• This is the thing that I was born to do.
  • Musophilus (1599), Stanza 100, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• And who (in time) knows whither we may vent
  The treasure of our tongue? To what strange shores
  This gain of our best glory shall be sent
  T' enrich unknowing nations with our stores?
  What worlds in the yet unformed Occident
  May come refin'd with th' accents that are ours?
  • Musophilus (1599), Stanza 163, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919). Compare: "Westward the course of empire takes its way", George Berkeley, On the Prospect of Planting Arts and Learning in America

• Unless above himself he can
  Erect himself, how poor a thing is man!
  • To the Countess of Cumberland. Stanza 12, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

• Care-Charmer Sleep, son of the sable Night,
  Brother to Death, in silent darkness born,
  Relieve my languish, and restore the light;
  With dark forgetting of my care return.
  And let the day be time enough to mourn
  The shipwreck of my ill adventured youth
  • Delia (1592), Sonnet XLV.