Honorius Of Autun Quotes

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French ecclesiastic, and the author of numerous philosophical, theological and devotional works.

I remember, I remember, The fir trees dark and high; I used to think their slender tops Were close against the sky: It was a childish ignorance, But now 'tis little joy To know I'm farther off from heav'n Than when I was a boy.

1826  'I Remember'.

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I remember, I remember, The house where I was born, The little window where the sun Came peeping in at morn; He never came a wink too soon, Nor brought too long a day, But now, I often wish the night Had borne my breath away!

Honorius Of Autun
— 1826  'I Remember'.

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Universitas in modo citharae sit disposita, in qua diversa genera in modo chordarum sit consonantia. The universe is arranged like a cithera, in which different kinds of things sound together harmoniously, just as they do in a chord.

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— c.1120  Liber Duodecem Questionum, ch.2.

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Quid confert animae pugna Hectoris, vel disputatio Platonis, aut carmina Maronis, vel neniae Nasonis? Of what benefit to the soul are the struggles of Hector, the disputations of Plato, the songs of Virgil, or the dirges of Ovid?

Honorius Of Autun
— c.1130  Gemma  Animae, prologue. English poet  and journalist.  His collection Odes and Addresses (1825) was followed by several volumes of humorous verse and political poems such as 'The Song of the Shirt' (1843).

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I saw old Autumn in the misty morn Stand shadowless like Silence, listening To silence.

Honorius Of Autun
— 1823  'Ode:  Autumn'.

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Ben Battle was a soldier bold, And used to war's alarms: But a cannon-ball took off his legs, So he laid down his arms!

Honorius Of Autun
— 1826  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.

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The love that loves a scarlet coat Should be more uniform.

Honorius Of Autun
— 1826  'Faithless Nelly Gray'.

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She stood breast high amid the corn, Clasped by the golden light of morn, Like the sweetheart of the sun, Who many a glowing kiss had won.

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— 1827  'Ruth'.

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The sedate, sober, silent, serious, sad-coloured sect.

Honorius Of Autun
— 1839  Of the Quakers. Comic  Annual,'The Doves and the Crows'.

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'Extremes meet', as the whiting said with its tail in its mouth.

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— 1839  Comic  Annual,'The Doves and the Crows'.

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Holland?lies so low they're only saved by being dammed.

Honorius Of Autun
— 1840  Up the Rhine,'Letter from Martha Penny to Rebecca Page'.

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Home-made dishes that drive one from home.

Honorius Of Autun
— 1841-3  Miss Kilmansegg and her Precious Leg,'Her Misery'.

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When Eve upon the first of Men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not Adamant!

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— 'A Reflection' (1842)

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O! men with sisters dear, O! men with mothers and wives! It is not linen you're wearing out, But human creatures' lives!

Honorius Of Autun
— 1843  'The Song of the Shirt'.

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Oh! God! that bread should be so dear, And flesh and blood so cheap!

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— 1843  'The Song of the Shirt'.

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Take her up tenderly, Lift her with care; Fashioned so slenderly, Young, and so fair!

Honorius Of Autun
— 1844  'The Bridge of Sighs'.

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Mad from life's history, Glad to death's mystery, Swift to be hurled Anywhere, anywhere, Out of the world!

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— 1844  'The Bridge of Sighs'.

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But evil is wrought by want of thought, As well as want of heart!

Honorius Of Autun
— 1844  'The Lady's Dream'.

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No sunno moon! No mornno noon No dawnno duskno proper time of day.

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— 1844  'No'.

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No warmth, no cheerfulness, no healthful ease, No comfortable feel in any member No shade, no shine, no butterflies, no bees, No fruits, no flowers, no leaves, no birds, November!

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— 1844  'No'.

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What is a modern poet's fate? To write his thoughts upon a slate; The critic spits on what is done, Gives it a wipeand all isgone.

Honorius Of Autun
— 'A  Joke'. Collected in Hallam Tennyson  Alfred Lord Tennyson (1897), vol.2, ch.3.

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