James Sheridan Knowles Quotes

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What delight To back the flying steed, that challenges The wind for speed! - seems native more of air Than earth! - whose burden only lends him fire! - Whose soul, in his task, turns labour into sport; Who makes your pastime his! I sit him now! He takes away my breath! He makes me reel! I touch not earth - I see not - hear not. All Is ecstasy of motion!

James Sheridan Knowles

Extremes are ever neighbors; 'tis a step from one to the other.

James Sheridan Knowles

The longest time that man may live,
The lapse of generations of his race,
The continent entire of time itself,
Bears not proportion to Eternity;
Huge as a fraction of a grain of dew
Co-measured with the broad, unbounded ocean!
There is the time of man--his proper time,
Looking at which this life is but a gust,
A puff of breath, that's scarcely felt ere gone!

James Sheridan Knowles

Find earth where grows no weed, and you may find a heart wherein no error grows.

James Sheridan Knowles

James Sheridan Knowles

James Sheridan Knowles

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Born: May 12, 1784

Died: November 30, 1862 (aged 78)

Bio: James Sheridan Knowles was an Irish dramatist and actor.

Known for:

The Love-Chase (1837)
The Hunchback: A Play in Five Acts (1800)
Caius Gracchus: A Tragedy in Five Acts (1823)
The beggar of Bethnal-green
True unto death (1860)

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