Phineas Fletcher Quotes

• Love's tongue is in the eyes.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Love, Anniversary, Eye

  'Piscatory Eclogues' (1633) no. 5, st. 13

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• Beauty when most unclothed is clothed best.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Beautiful

  "Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations" by Jehiel Keeler Hoyt, p. 31-33, Sicelides, act II, scene 4, 1922.

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• Who bathes in worldly joys, swims in a world of fears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Fear, Joy, Swim

  Phineas Fletcher, Giles Fletcher (1783). “The purple island, or The isle of man. [In verse] To which is added, Christ's victory and triumph, a poem by G. Fletcher”, p.116

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• Love is like linen, often changed, the sweeter.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Best Love, Love Is, Changed

  'Sicelides' (performed 1614) act 3, sc. 5

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• Drop, drop, slow tears, and bathe those beauteous feet Which brought from heaven the news and prince of peace. Cease not, wet eyes, his mercies to entreat; To cry for vengeance sin doth never cease; In your deep floods drown all my faults and fears, Nor let his eye see sin but through my tears.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Peace, Fear, Eye

  'Poetical Miscellanies' (1633) 'An Hymn'

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• Long open panegyric drags at best, And praise is only praise when well address'd.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Long, Addresses, Praise

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• The dying swan, when years her temples pierce, In music-strains breathes out her life and verse, And, chanting her own dirge, tides on her wat'ry hearse.

  Phineas Fletcher

  Swans, Years, Dying

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