From Bartlett's Quotations...
The LOVE Word
Jean Jacques Rousseau. 1712-1778.
... She I love is far away.

Miscellaneous Translations.
... Who does not love wine, women, and song

Old Testament.
... Love thy neighbour as thyself.
... Saul and Jonathan were lovely and pleasant in their lives, and in their death they were not
... Thy love to me was wonderful, passing the love of women.
... He giveth his beloved sleep.
... Better is a dinner of herbs where love is, than a stalled ox and hatred therewith.
... Open rebuke is better than secret love.
... Love is strong as death; jealousy is cruel as the grave.
... Many waters cannot quench love, neither can the floods drown it.

New Testament.
... Ye have heard that it have been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy.
... Love thy neighbour as thyself.
... Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.
... All things work together for good to them that love God.
... Owe no man anything, but to love one another.
... Love is the fulfilling of the law.
... things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report: if there be any virtue, and
... Labour of love.

Book of Common Prayer.
... for worse, for richer for poorer, in sickness and in health, to love and to cherish, till death us do part.
... To love, cherish, and to obey.

Elizabeth Barrett Browning. 1809-1861.
... The genius to be loved, why let him have
... Death forerunneth Love to win

Bartlett's Quotations. Preface
... the way of suggestions or by contributions; and especially to those lovers of this subsidiary literature for their kind appreciation of former

John Lyly. Circa 1553-1601.
... O Love! has she done this to thee?
... He reckoneth without his Hostesse. 8 Love knoweth no lawes.
... satyr, a shepherd, a bull, a swan, a golden shower, and what not for love.--Robert Burton: Anatomy of Melancholy, part iii. sec ii. mem. i.

Benjamin Franklin. 1706-1790.
... Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time, for that is the stuff life is made of.

John Tobin. 1770-1804.
... Amply that in her husband's eye looks lovely,--

George Canning. 1770-1827.
... The Loves of the Triangles. Line 178.

William Wordsworth. 1770-1850.
... Instructed that true knowledge leads to love.
... Of kindness and of love.
... An appetite,--a feeling and a love,
... The heart that loved her.
... And very few to love.
... And love and thought and joy.
... Love him, who for himself will take no heed at all?
... And love, and man's unconquerable mind. 5

Sir Walter Scott. 1771-1832.
... In peace, Love tunes the shepherd's reed;
... Love rules the court, the camp, the grove,
... For love is heaven, and heaven is love.
... For lovers love the western star.
... True love 's the gift which God has given
... That loved, or was avenged, like me.
... And loved to plead, lament, and sue;
... Of finer form or lovelier face.

James Montgomery. 1771-1854.
... And all that life is love.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge. 1772-1834.
... A spring of love gush'd from my heart,
... Beloved from pole to pole.
... He prayeth well who loveth well
... He prayeth best who loveth best
... And lay down in her loveliness.
... And to be wroth with one we love
... Possessing all things with intensest love,
... All are but ministers of Love,

Robert Southey. 1774-1843.
... They sin who tell us love can die;
... Love is indestructible,
... But the harvest-time of love is there.

Charles Lamb. 1775-1834.
... It is good to love the unknown.

Walter Savage Landor. 1775-1864.
... Nature I loved; and next to Nature, Art.

Thomas Campbell. 1777-1844.
... There shall he love when genial morn appears,
... O Love! in such a wilderness as this.
... Drink ye to her that each loves best!

Thomas Moore. 1779-1852.
... And maids who love the moon.
... But as truly loves on to the close;
... And that when we 're far from the lips we love,
... We 've but to make love to the lips we are near.
... As love's young dream.
... Love's Young Dream.
... I but know that I love thee whatever thou art.
... The words of love then spoken;

The ROMANCE Word
Appendix.
... Calendaria), this designation arose from the fact that in an old romance a prince of the name of Crispin is made to exercise, in honour of his
... are rendered so ridiculously and equally extravagant by the old romancers, that from thence arose that saying amongst our plain and sensible

William Wordsworth. 1770-1850.
... Sole-sitting by the shores of old romance.

Sir William Davenant. 1605-1668.
... From The Mock Romance, a rhapsody attached to The Loves of Hero and Leander, published in

Thomas Gray. 1716-1771.
... upon the flute and lying with Houris, be mine to read eternal new romances of Marivaux and Crebillon.

William B. Rhodes. Circa 1790.
... Ray: Proverbs. Thomas: English Prose Romance, page 85.