'Mongst Quotes
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'Mongst all these stirs of discontented strife,O, let me lead an academic life;To know much, and to think for nothing, knowNothing to have, yet think we have enow.
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More 'Mongst Quotes
Hence, loathèd Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born, In Stygian cave forlorn, 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy.
john milton— Line 1. (L'Allegro (1631))
O Solitude! if I must with thee dwell, Let it not be among the jumbled heap Of murky buildings: climb with me the steep, Nature's observatory whence the dell, In flowery slopes, its river's crystal swell, May seem a span; let me thy vigils keep 'Mongst boughs pavilion'd, where the deer's swift leap Startles the wild bee from the foxglove bell.
john keats— John Keats, Sonnet, O Solitude! If I Must With Thee Dwell.
The private wound is deepest: O time most accurs'd 'Mongst all foes that a friend should be the worst.
william shakespeare— William Shakespeare, The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1590s), Act V, scene 4, line 71.
High on a hill a goodly Cedar grewe, Of wond'rous length and straight proportion, That farre abroad her daintie odours threwe; 'Mongst all the daughters of proud Libanon, Her match in beautie was not anie one.
Edmund Spenser— Edmund Spenser, Visions of the World's Vanitie, Stanza 7.
