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Quotes from Bothwell: A Tragedy — Algernon Charles Swinburne

1837–1909 England

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Fear that makes faith may break faith; and a fool
Is but in folly stable.

Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)

I have no remedy for fear; there grows
No herb of help to heal a coward heart.

Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)

Surely most bitter of all sweet things thou art,
And sweetest thou of all things bitter, love.

Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)

But if one, seeing with God-illumined eyes
In his full face the encountering face of sin,
Smite once the one high-fronted head, and slay,
His will we call good service.

Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)

Who questions with a snake if the snake sting?
Who reasons of the lightning if it burn?
While these things are, deadly will these things be;
And so the curse that comes of cursed faith.

Bothwell: A Tragedy (1874)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Algernon Charles Swinburne (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.