“What though my winged hours of bliss have been, Like angel visits, few and far between.”
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Famous Thomas Campbell Quotes
“Without the smile from partial beauty won, O what were man? - a world without a sun.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
Source: Poetical works
“Who hail thee, Man! the pilgrim of the day, spouse of the worm, and brother of the clay.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“I'll meet the raging of the skies, but not an angry father.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Several Pieces from the Original Manuscript, Never Before Published in this Country
“The proud, the cold untroubled heart of stone, that never mused on sorrow but its own.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
Source: My Big Toe: Book 2 : Discovery
Source: My Big Toe: Awakening, Discovery, Inner Workings: A Trilogy Unifying Philosophy, Physics, and Metaphysics
“Where the Scriptures speak, we speak; where the Scriptures are silent, we are silent.”
Source: Life of Mrs. Siddons
“Ye are brothers! ye are men! And we conquer but to save.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Tis distance lends enchantment to the view, and robes the mountain in its azure hue.”
“O leave this barren spot to me! Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree.”
“He scorn'd his own, who felt another's woe.”
Source: Poetical works
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
“But sad as angels for the good man's sin, Weep to record, and blush to give it in.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric, and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition
“Oh, how hard it is to find The one just suited to our mind!”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: Including Theodric, and Many Other Pieces Not Contained in Any Former Edition
“His faithful dog salutes the smiling guest.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With a Memoir of His Life ...
Source: New Monthly Magazine
“One moment may with bliss repay Unnumbered hours of pain.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Beauty's witching sway is now to me a star that's fallen-a dream that's passed away.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell: With an Original Biography, and Notes
“Men of England! who inheritRights that cost your sires their blood.”
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Rogers and Thomas Campbell: With an Original Biography and Sketch
Source: The Complete Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell
Source: The Pleasures of Hope, Gertrude of Wyoming, and othe Poems: To which are added Collin's and Gray's poetical works Seventh Thousand
“Who hath not own'd, with rapture-smitten frame, The power of grace, the magic of a name.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell. A New Edition, with Illustrations by John Gilbert. [With a Portrait.]
“Our land, the first garden of liberty's tree-- It has been, and shall be, the land of the free.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“The prophet's mantle, ere his flight began, Dropt on the world--a sacred gift to man.”
Source: The Poems of the pleasures: consisting of The pleasures of imagination, by Mark Akenside; The pleasures of memory, by Samuel Rogers; The pleasures of hope, by Thomas Campbell; The pleasures of friendship, by James M'Henry
“O star-eyed Science, hast thou wander'd there, To waft us home the message of despair?”
Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White
“For Beauty's tears are lovelier than her smile.”
Source: The Pleasures of Hope: With Other Poems and The Pleasures of Memory
“A stoic of the woods,--a man without a tear.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Campbell, Goldsmith and Gray: With Memoirs of the Authors
“Better be courted and jilted Than never be courted at all.”
Source: The poetical works of Rogers, Campbell, J. Montgomery, Lamb, and Kirke White: complete in one volume
“For there no yew nor cypress spread their glom But roses blossom'd each rustic tomb.”
“Love's a fire that needs renewal Of fresh beauty for its fuel.”
Source: The Poetical Works of Thomas Campbell