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Keys.
Two massy keys he bore, of metals twain
(The golden opes, the iron shuts amain).
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MILTON:
Lycidas,
Line 109.
Kin.
A little more than kin, and less than kind.
1019
SHAKS.:
Hamlet,
Act i., Sc. 2.
One touch of nature makes the whole world kin.
1020
SHAKS.:
Troil. and Cress.,
Act iii., Sc. 3.
Kindness.
Kindness in women, not their beauteous looks,
Shall win my love.
1021
SHAKS.:
Tam. of the S.,
Act iv., Sc. 2.
That best portion of a good man's life,—
His little, nameless, unremembered acts
Of kindness and of love.
1022
WORDSWORTH:
Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey.
Kings.
What have kings that privates have not too,
Save ceremony?
1023
SHAKS.:
Henry V.,
Act iv., Sc. 1.
Kings are like stars,—they rise and set, they have
The worship of the world, but no repose.
1024
SHELLEY:
Hellas,
Line 195.
Or where the gorgeous East with richest hand
Showers on her kings barbaric pearl and gold.
1025
MILTON:
Par. Lost,
Bk. ii., Line 1.
Kissing.
Then kiss me hard,
As if he pluck'd up kisses by the roots,
That grew upon my lips.
1026
SHAKS.:
Othello,
Act iii., Sc. 3.
Teach not thy lip such scorn; for it was made
For kissing, lady, not for such contempt.
1027
SHAKS.:
Richard III.,
Act i., Sc. 2.
When my lips meet thine
Thy very soul is wedded unto mine.
1028
H.H. BOYESEN:
Thy Gracious Face I Greet with Glad Surprise.
Her mouth's culled sweetness by thy kisses shed
On cheeks and neck and eyelids, and so led
Back to her mouth which answers there for all.
1029
DANTE GABRIEL ROSSETTI:
Love-Sweetness,
Sonnet xiii.
I rest content, I kiss your eyes,
I kiss your hair, in my delight:
I kiss my hand, and say, Good night.
1030
JOAQUIN MILLER:
Isles of the Amazons,
Pt. v.
One kiss—and then another—and another—
Till 't is too late to go—and so return.
1031
CHARLES KINGSLEY:
Saint's Tragedy,
Act ii., Sc. 10.
Dear as remember'd kisses after death,
And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd
On lips that are for others.
1032
TENNYSON:
The Princess,
Pt. iv., Line 36.
Knavery.
There's ne'er a villain dwelling in all Denmark
But he's an arrant knave.
1033
SHAKS.:
Hamlet,
Act i., Sc. 5.
Whip me such honest knaves.
1034
SHAKS.:
Othello,
Act i., Sc. 1.
Knell.
By fairy hands their knell is rung;
By forms unseen their dirge is sung.
1035
WILLIAM COLLINS:
Lines in 1746.
Ne'er sigh'd at the sound of a knell,
Or smil'd when a Sabbath appear'd.
1036
COWPER:
Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.
Knowledge.
Knowledge is as food, and needs no less
Her temp'rance over appetite, to know
In measure what the mind may well contain;
Oppresses else with surfeit, and soon turns
Wisdom to folly.
1037
MILTON:
Par. Lost,
Bk. vii., Line 126.
All our knowledge is, ourselves to know.
1038
POPE:
Essay on Man,
Epis. iv., Line 397.
I know
—is all the mourner saith,
Knowledge by suffering entereth;
And Life is perfected by Death!
1039
MRS. BROWNING:
Vision of Poets,
St. 330.
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.
1040
TENNYSON:
Locksley Hall,
Line 141.
But Knowledge to their eyes her ample page,
Rich with the spoils of time, did ne'er unroll.
1041
GRAY:
Elegy,
St. 13.
Oh, be wiser thou!
Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
1042
WORDSWORTH:
Lines left upon a Seat in a Yew-tree.