Love divine, all love excelling,

Joy of heaven to earth come down.

Divine Love.

Of right and wrong he taught

Truths as refined as ever Athens heard;

And (strange to tell!) he practised what he preached.

John Armstrong (1709-1779): The Art of Preserving Health. Book iv. Line 301.

Right as a trivet.

R. H. Barham (1788-1845): The Ingoldsby Legends. Auto-da-fe.

The time is out of joint: O cursed spite,

That ever I was born to set it right!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Hamlet. Act i. Sc. 5.

A fool must now and then be right by chance.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Conversation. Line 96.

The right divine of kings to govern wrong.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Dunciad. Book iv. Line 188.

Fierce fiery warriors fought upon the clouds,

In ranks and squadrons and right form of war,

Which drizzled blood upon the Capitol.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act ii. Sc. 2.

His red right hand.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book ii. Line 174.

His conduct still right, with his argument wrong.

Oliver Goldsmith (1728-1774): Retaliation. Line 46.

His faith, perhaps, in some nice tenets might

Be wrong; his life, I'm sure, was in the right.

Abraham Cowley (1618-1667): On the Death of Crashaw.

I see the right, and I approve it too,

Condemn the wrong, and yet the wrong pursue.

Samuel Garth (1670-1719): Ovid, Metamorphoses, vii. 20 (translated by Tate and Stonestreet, edited by Garth).

For 't is a truth well known to most,

That whatsoever thing is lost,

We seek it, ere it come to light,

In every cranny but the right.

William Cowper (1731-1800): The Retired Cat.

For right is right, since God is God,

And right the day must win;

To doubt would be disloyalty,

To falter would be sin.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Right must win.

Because right is right, to follow right

Were wisdom in the scorn of consequence.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): oenone.

Oh, it's a snug little island!

A right little, tight little island.

Thomas Dibdin (1771-1841): The snug little Island.

In the great right of an excessive wrong.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): The Ring and the Book. The other Half-Rome. Line 1055.

I only speak right on.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Julius Caesar. Act iii. Sc. 2.

Yet I argue not

Against Heav'n's hand or will, nor bate a jot

Of heart or hope; but still bear up and steer

Right onward.

John Milton (1608-1674): Sonnet xxii. To Cyriac Skinner.

I am right sorry for your heavinesse.

Geoffrey Chaucer (1328-1400): Troilus and Creseide. Book v. Line 146.

For right is right, since God is God,

And right the day must win;

To doubt would be disloyalty,

To falter would be sin.

Christopher P Cranch (1813-1892): The Right must win.

I am monarch of all I survey,

My right there is none to dispute.

William Cowper (1731-1800): Verses supposed to be written by Alexander Selkirk.

He who did well in war just earns the right

To begin doing well in peace.

Robert Browning (1812-1890): Luria. Act ii.

Perhaps it was right to dissemble your love,

But—why did you kick me down stairs?

J P Kemble (1757-1823): The Panel. Act i. Sc. 1.

But 't was a maxim he had often tried,

That right was right, and there he would abide.

George Crabbe (1754-1832): Tales. Tale xv. The Squire and the Priest.

All nature is but art, unknown to thee;

All chance, direction, which thou canst not see;

All discord, harmony not understood;

All partial evil, universal good;

And spite of pride, in erring reason's spite,

One truth is clear, Whatever is, is right.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 289.

For forms of government let fools contest;

Whate'er is best administer'd is best.

For modes of faith let graceless zealots fight;

His can't be wrong whose life is in the right.

In faith and hope the world will disagree,

But all mankind's concern is charity.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle iii. Line 303.