Its quenchless flashings forth, which ever show William Watson—Wordsworth's Grave. I. St. 6.
1 God is, and all is well.
(See also Browning)
2 I know not where His islands lift Whittier—The Eternal Goodness. St. 20.
3 A God all mercy is a God unjust. Young—Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 234.
4 By night an atheist half believes a God. Young—Night Thoughts. Night V. L. 177.
5 A Deity believed, is joy begun; Young—Night Thoughts. Night VII. L. 720.
6 A God alone can comprehend a God. Young—Night Thoughts. Night IX. L. 835.
7 Thou, my all! Young—Night Thoughts. Night IV. L. 586.
8 Though man sits still, and takes his ease, Young—Resignation. Pt. I. St. 119.
GODS (THE) 9 Great is Diana of the Ephesians. Acts. XIX. 28.
10 The Ethiop gods have Ethiop lips, Walter Bagehot—Literary Studies. II. 410. Ignorance of Man.
11 Speak of the gods as they are. [[1]].
12 And that dismal cry rose slowly E. B. Browning—The Dead Pan.
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13 The Graces, three erewhile, are three no more; Callimachus—Epigram. V. Goldwin Smith's rendering.
14 Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore; Callimachus—Epigram. V. Swift's rendering. See Meleager of Gadara, in Anthologia Græca. IX. 16. Vol. II. P. 62. (Ed. 1672)
(See also Greek Anthology)
15 Omnia fanda, nefanda, malo permista furore, The confounding of all right and wrong, in wild fury, has averted from us the gracious favor of the gods.
16 O dii immortales! ubinam gentium sumus? Cicero—In Catilinam. I. 4.
17 Never, believe me,
18 Nature's self's thy Ganymede. Cowley—Anacreontics. The Grasshopper. L. 8.
19 With ravish'd ears Dryden—Alexander's Feast. L. 37.
20 Creator Venus, genial power of love, Dryden—Palamon and Arcite. Bk. III. L. 1405.
21 Cupid is a casuist, a mystic, and a cabalist,—
All things wait for and divine him,— Emerson—Initial Dæmonic and Celestial Love. Pt. I.
22 Either Zeus came to earth to shew his form to thee, In Greek Anthology.
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