alone (n.)

alone (v.)

alone (adv.)

alone (adj.)

Alone, alone,—all, all alone;

Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

All we ask is to be let alone.

Jefferson Davis (1808-1889): First Message to the Confederate Congress, March, 1861.

In solitude, where we are least alone.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 90.

It is not good that the man should be alone.

Old Testament: Genesis ii. 18.

Never, believe me,

Appear the Immortals,

Never alone.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Visit of the Gods. (Imitated from Schiller.)

When you have shut your doors, and darkened your room, remember never to say that you are alone, for you are not alone; but God is within, and your genius is within,—and what need have they of light to see what you are doing?

Epictetus (Circa 60 a d): Discourses. Chap. xiv.

Alone, alone,—all, all alone;

Alone on a wide, wide sea.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834): The Ancient Mariner. Part iv.

I was never less alone than when by myself.

Edward Gibbon (1737-1794): Memoirs. Vol. i. p. 117.

Then never less alone than when alone.

Samuel Rogers (1763-1855): Human Life.

Alone!—that worn-out word,

So idly spoken, and so coldly heard;

Yet all that poets sing and grief hath known

Of hopes laid waste, knells in that word Alone!

Edward Bulwer Lytton (1805-1873): The New Timon. (1846.) Part ii.

Slowly and sadly we laid him down,

From the field of his fame fresh and gory;

We carved not a line, and we raised not a stone,

But we left him alone with his glory.

Charles Wolfe (1791-1823): The Burial of Sir John Moore.

He never is alone that is accompanied with noble thoughts.—Fletcher: Love's Cure, act iii. sc. 3.

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