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Midnight: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

When every room Hath blaz'd with lights and brayed with minstrelsy.— Shakespeare — Timon of Athens. Act II. Sc. 2. L. 169.

With mirth and laughter let old wrinkles come, And let my liver rather heat with wine Than my heart cool with mortifying groans.— Shakespeare — Merchant of Venice. Act I. Sc. 1. L. 80.

The glad circle round them yield their souls To festive mirth, and wit that knows no gall.— THOMSON — The Seasons. Summer. L. 403.

Is there not A tongue in every star that talks with man, And wooes him to be wise? nor wooes in vain; This dead of midnight is the noon of thought, And wisdom mounts her zenith with the stars.— ANNA LETITIA BARBAULD — A Summer Evening's Meditation. L. 48.

That hour o' night's black arch the keystane.— BURNS — Tam o' Shanter.

It is the hour when from the boughs The nightingale's high note is heard; It is the hour when lovers' vows Seem sweet in every whisper'd word.— BYRON — Parisina. St. 1.

It was evening here, But upon earth the very noon of night. и.— DANTE — Purgatorio. Canto XV. L. 5.

Midnight! the outpost of advancing day! The frontier town and citadel of night!— LONGFELLOW — The Two Rivers. Pt. I.

O wild and wondrous midnight, There is a might in thee To make the charmed body Almost like spirit be, And give it some faint glimpses Of immortality!— LOWELL — Midnight.

'Tis midnight now. The bent and broken moon, Batter'd and black, as from a thousand battles, Hangs silent on the purple walls of Heaven.— JOAQUIN MILLER — Ina. Sc. 2.

Soon as midnight brought on the dusky hour Friendliest to sleep and silence.— MILTON — Paradise Lost. Bk. V. L. 667.

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve; Lovers, to bed; 'tis almost fairy time. Midsummer-Night's Dream. Act V. Sc. 1. L.