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Oh, Edmund, you're so naughty! I try, madam...and then ten minutes later, when I've got my breath back, I try again.
.. -- Queenie and Edmund : Chai...
O, hell! to choose love by another's eyes. -- William Shakespeare (1564-1616), A Midsummer Night's Dream -- Act i, Sc.
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Oh, ever thus, from childhood's hour, I 've seen my fondest hopes decay
I never loved a tree or flower But 't was the first to fade away....
Oh, fear not in a world like this, And thou shalt know erelong,-- Know how sublime a thing it is To suffer and be strong.
-- Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882) -- The Light of Sta...
Oh for a forty-parson power! -- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Don Juan, Canto x, Stanza 34
Oh for a lodge in some vast wilderness, Some boundless contiguity of shade, Where rumour of oppression and deceit, Of unsuccessful or successful war, Might never reach me more.
-- William Cowper (173...
Oh for a seat in some poetic nook, Just hid with trees and sparkling with a brook!
-- Leigh Hunt (1784-1859) -- Politics and Poetic...
Oh for a tongue to curse the slave Whose treason, like a deadly blight, Comes o'er the councils of the brave, And blasts them in their hour of might!
-- Thomas Moore (1779-1852) -- The Fire-Wo...
Oh for one hour of blind old Dandolo, The octogenarian chief, Byzantium's conquering foe!
-- Lord Byron (1788-1824) -- Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto iv, Stanza 12...
Oh for the wings of any bird, other than a battery hen...

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