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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various
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BYRON: _Don Juan,_ Canto xiii., St. 99.


=Disappointment.=

Oh! that a dream so sweet, so long enjoy'd,
Should be so sadly, cruelly destroy'd!
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MOORE: _Lalla Rookh, Veiled Prophet of Khorassan._


=Discord.=

Discord oft in music makes the sweeter lay.
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SPENSER: _Faerie Queene,_ Bk. iii., Canto ii., St. 15.

From hence, let fierce contending nations know
What dire effects from civil discord flow.
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ADDISON: _Cato,_ Act ii., Sc. 4.


=Discourse.=

Sure, he that made us with such large discourse,
Looking before and after, gave us not
That capability and godlike reason
To fust in us unused.
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