"A jolly place," said he, "in times of old!

But something ails it now: the spot is cursed."

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

Oh leave this barren spot to me!

Spare, woodman, spare the beechen tree!

Thomas Campbell (1777-1844): The Beech-Tree's Petition.

Ah, what a warning for a thoughtless man,

Could field or grove, could any spot of earth,

Show to his eye an image of the pangs

Which it hath witnessed,—render back an echo

Of the sad steps by which it hath been trod!

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): The Excursion. Book vi.

Out, damned spot! out, I say!

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 1.

Fix'd like a plant on his peculiar spot,

To draw nutrition, propagate, and rot.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 63.

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot

Which men call earth.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 5.

There swift return

Diurnal, merely to officiate light

Round this opacous earth, this punctual spot.

John Milton (1608-1674): Paradise Lost. Book viii. Line 21.

Above the smoke and stir of this dim spot

Which men call earth.

John Milton (1608-1674): Comus. Line 5.