Careful Words

forgotten (adj.)

Hunt half a day for a forgotten dream.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Hart-leap Well. Part ii.

Like glimpses of forgotten dreams.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): The Two Voices. Stanza cxxvii.

I give the fight up: let there be an end,

A privacy, an obscure nook for me.

I want to be forgotten even by God.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Paracelsus. Part v.

  They have learned nothing and forgotten nothing.

  There is nothing new except what is forgotten.

  An I have not forgotten what the inside of a church is made of, I am a pepper-corn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Henry IV. Part I. Act iii. Sc. 3.

  The Pyramids themselves, doting with age, have forgotten the names of their founders.

Thomas Fuller (1608-1661): Holy and Profane State. Of Tombs.