Ambrose Philips Quotes

• And thou shalt in thy daughter see,
  This picture, once, resembled thee.

  Ambrose Philips

  Daughter, Honesty, My Daughter

  Thomas Parnell, Ambrose Philips (1779). “The Works of the English Poets. With Prefaces, Biographical and Critical, by Samuel Johnson”, p.365

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• The flowers anew, returning seasons bring; but beauty faded has no second spring.

  Ambrose Philips

  Beauty, Spring, Flower

  'The First Pastoral' (1708) 'Lobbin' l. 47

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• Studious of ease, and fond of humble things.

  Ambrose Philips

  Humble, Ease, Study

  Ambrose Philips (1768). “Pastorals, Epistles, Odes, and Other Poems”, p.67

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