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Sweet Quotes - Page 90

Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

John Milton, Elijah Fenton (1795). “Paradise Lost: A Poem, in Twelve Books”, p.205

A heat full of coldness, a sweet full of bitterness, a pain full of pleasantness, which maketh thoughts have eyes and hearts ears, bred by desire, nursed by delight, weaned by jealousy, kill'd by dissembling, buried by ingratitude, and this is love.

1588 Gallathea, act1, sc.2. The passage gently satirizes the conventions of love sonnets, and is characterized by the yoked opposites called Euphuisms, after Lyly's earlier work, a style later used by the metaphysical poets.

The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone!

'The day is gone, and all its sweets are gone' (written 1819)

The fly that sips treacle is lost in the sweets.

Nathaniel Lee, John Dryden, Arthur Murphy, George Farquhar, Hannah Cowley (1815). “Alexander the Great, Or, the Rival Queens. A Tragedy”

Ah, how sweet it is to love! Ah, how gay is young Desire! And what pleasing pains we prove When we first approach Love's fire!

John Dryden (1808). “Sir Martin Mar-All. The tempest. An evening's love. Tyrannic love”, p.393