Wilkie Collins

1824 - 1889 *

British writer who originated the genre of detective fiction

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In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong. -- Ode to Simplicity.

William Collins

Well may your hearts believe the truths I tell:
'T is virtue makes the bliss, where'er we dwell. -- Oriental Eclogues. 1, Line 5.

William Collins

How sleep the brave who sink to rest
By all their country's wishes bless'd! -- Ode written in the year 1746.

William Collins

By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung;
There Honour comes, a pilgrim gray,
To bless the turf that wraps their clay;
And Freedom shall awhile repair,
To dwell a weeping hermit there! -- Ode written in the year 1746.

William Collins

When Music, heavenly maid, was young,
While yet in early Greece she sung. -- The Passions. Line 1.

William Collins

Fill'd with fury, rapt, inspired. -- The Passions. Line 10.

William Collins

'T was sad by fits, by starts 't was wild. -- The Passions. Line 28.

William Collins

In notes by distance made more sweet. -- The Passions. Line 60.

William Collins

In hollow murmurs died away. -- The Passions. Line 68.

William Collins

O Music! sphere-descended maid,
Friend of Pleasure, Wisdom's aid! -- The Passions. Line 95.

William Collins

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