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Charlotte Turner Smith Quotes

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

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

Charlotte Turner Smith
Doe, Conquest, Compact

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

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

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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