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Zephyrs: Quotations from Cyclopedia of Practical Quotations

Terms ill defined, and forms misunderstood, And customs, when their reasons are un known, Have stirred up many zealous souls To fight against imaginary giants.— TUPPER — Proverbial Philosophy. Of

Tolerance. Press bravely onward!-not in vain Your generous trust in human kind; The good which bloodshed could not gain Your peaceful zeal shall find.— WHITTIER — To the Reformers of

Let Zephyr only breathe And with her tresses play.— DRUMMOND — Song. Phœbus, Arise.

Fair laughs the morn, and soft the zephyr blows.— GRAY — The Bard. I. 2. L. 9.

And soon Their hushing dances languished to a stand, Like midnight leaves when, as the Zephyrs swoon, All on their drooping stems they sink unfanned.— HOOD — The Plea of the Midsummer

Fairies What joy have I in June's return? My feet are parched-my eyeballs burn, I scent no flowery gust; But faint the flagging Zephyr springs, With dry Macadam on its wings, And turns me "dust to dust."— HOOD — Town and Country. Ode

Imitated from Horace. And on the balmy zephyrs tranquil rest The silver clouds.— KEATS — Posthumous Poems. Sonnets.

S. Oh! How I Love on a Fair Summer's Eve. And soften'd sounds along the waters die : Smooth flow the waves, the zephyrs gently play.— POPE — Rape of the Lock. Canto II. L. 50.

Lull'd by soft zephyrs thro' the broken pane. น.— POPE — Prologue to Satires. L. 42.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows.— POPE — Essay on Criticism. Pt. II. L. 366.

Soft o'er the shrouds aerial whispers breathe, That seemed but zephyrs to the train beneath.— POPE — Rape of the Lock. Canto II. L. 58.

The balmy zephyrs, silent since her death, Lament the ceasing of a sweeter breath.— POPE — Winter. L. 45.