Charlotte Turner Smith Quotes

• If conquest does not bind posterity, so neither can compact bind it.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Doe, Conquest, Compact

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• Silene, who declines The garish noontide's blazing light; But when the evening crescent shines, Gives all her sweetness to the night.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Flower, Night, Light

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.300, Delphi Classics

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• May its index point to joy, And moments wing'd with new delights. Sweet may resound each silver bell, And never quick returning chime, Seem in reproving notes to tell, Of hours mispent, and murder'd time.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Sweet, Time, Silver Bells

  Charlotte Turner Smith (2014). “Delphi Complete Poetical Works of Charlotte Smith (Illustrated)”, p.299, Delphi Classics

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• In following their line through, and those of Plantagenet and Tudor, there is but little to soothe the mind.

  Charlotte Turner Smith

  Mind, Tudors, Lines

  Charlotte Turner Smith, Stuart Curran (2006). “The Works of Charlotte Smith: Marchmont (1796)”

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