Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations

Tis more brave
To live, than to die.
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OWEN MEREDITH: Lucile, Pt. ii., Canto vi., St. 11.

The topics illustrated number 2138, selected from the writings of 255 authors.

Readers of English literature are aware that the few great poets of our language have struck perhaps every chord of human sentiment capable of illustration in verse, and even these few have borrowed the ideas, and sometimes almost the exact words, of predecessors or contemporaries.