Ambrose Philips

Ambrose Phillips

Ambrose Philips (c. 1675 – June 18, 1749) was an English poet.

Quotes

• Studious of ease and fond of humble things.
  • Epistle: "From Holland to a Friend in England" (1703), line 23

• The flowers anew returning seasons bring!
  But beauty faded has no second spring.
  • Lobbing, The First Pastoral (1709), line 55.

• There solid billows of enormous size,
  Alps of green ice, in wild disorder rise.
  • Epistle: "To the Earl of Dorset" (1709), line 21.

• The stag in limpid currents with surprise
  Sees crystal branches on his forehead rise.
  • Epistle: "To the Earl of Dorset" (1709), line 39.

• He the robe of justice wore,
  Sully'd not, as heretofore,
  When the magistrate was sought
  With yearly gifts. Of what avail
  Are guilty hoards? for life is frail;
  And we are judg'd where favour is not bought.
  • Ode: "On the Death of the Right Honourable William Earl Cowper" (1723), line 137.

To Miss Charlotte Pulteney in Her Mother’s Arms (1724)

• Timely blossom, Infant fair,
  Fondling of a happy pair.

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

• Wearied then and glad of rest,
  Like the linnet in the nest.

External links

• Encyclopedic article on Ambrose Philips on Wikipedia
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