Henry Austin Dobson

"A retrospect of the Eighteenth-Century Essayists subsequent to the ',' ',' and ',' only serves to confirm the supremacy of Addison and Steele. Some of their successors approached them in serious writing; others carried the lighter kinds to considerable perfection; but none (Goldsmith alone excepted) really rivaled them in that happily mingling of the lively and severe, which Johnson envied but could not emulate."

Henry Austin Dobson

"Love comes unseen,—we only see it go."

Henry Austin Dobson

"... it may be interesting for an ear-witness to record that when Austin Dobson, after the publication of 'Vignettes in Rhyme,' was presented to Tennyson, that alarming vates inquired, in sepulchral tones, 'Are you a classic? Then become one! Read Horace every day of your life!' Dobson did not carry out this counsel quite to the letter, but with his customary docility in adopting good advice, he forthwith made a searching and prolonged study of the 'Odes' and 'Epistles,' a study the result of which upon his subsequent verse must be patent to the most careless observer, and may be traced upon his meticulous prose as well."

Henry Austin Dobson

"Time goes, you say? Ah, no! alas, time stays, we go."

Henry Austin Dobson

"Love comes unseen we only see it go."

Henry Austin Dobson

"What ye have been ye still shall be, When we are dust the dust among, O yellow flowers!"

Henry Austin Dobson

"I intended an Ode, And it turned to a Sonnet."

Henry Austin Dobson

"Time goes you say? Ah no! Alas Time stays we go."

Henry Austin Dobson