To add to golden numbers golden numbers.

Thomas Dekker (1572-1632): Patient Grissell. Act i. Sc. 1.

Thoughts that voluntary move

Harmonious numbers.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book iii. Line 37.

As yet a child, nor yet a fool to fame,

I lisp'd in numbers, for the numbers came.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Epistle to Dr. Arbuthnot. Prologue to the Satires. Line 127.

Now night descending, the proud scene was o'er,

But lived in Settle's numbers one day more.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book i. Line 89.

"Then here goes another," says he, "to make sure,

For there's luck in odd numbers," says Rory O'More.

Samuel Lover (1797-1868): Rory O'More.

By magic numbers and persuasive sound.

William Congreve (1670-1729): The Mourning Bride. Act i. Sc. 1.

One murder made a villain,

Millions a hero. Princes were privileged

To kill, and numbers sanctified the crime.

Beilby Porteus (1731-1808): Death. Line 154.

Soft is the strain when zephyr gently blows,

And the smooth stream in smoother numbers flows;

But when loud surges lash the sounding shore,

The hoarse rough verse should like the torrent roar.

When Ajax strives some rock's vast weight to throw,

The line too labours, and the words move slow:

Not so when swift Camilla scours the plain,

Flies o'er th' unbending corn, and skims along the main.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Criticism. Part ii. Line 166.

Tell me not, in mournful numbers,

"Life is but an empty dream!"

For the soul is dead that slumbers,

And things are not what they seem.

Henry W Longfellow (1807-1882): A Psalm of Life.

In numbers warmly pure and sweetly strong.

William Collins (1720-1756): Ode to Simplicity.