Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.

John Dryden (1631-1701): Epistle to Congreve. Line 19.

O, it is excellent

To have a giant's strength; but it is tyrannous

To use it like a giant.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Measure for Measure. Act ii. Sc. 2.

Here the free spirit of mankind, at length,

Throws its last fetters off; and who shall place

A limit to the giant's unchained strength,

Or curb his swiftness in the forward race?

William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878): The Ages. xxxiii.

Like strength is felt from hope and from despair.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xv. Line 852.

The king's name is a tower of strength.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): King Richard III. Act v. Sc. 3.

The sky is changed,—and such a change! O night

And storm and darkness! ye are wondrous strong,

Yet lovely in your strength, as is the light

Of a dark eye in woman! Far along,

From peak to peak, the rattling crags among,

Leaps the live thunder.

Lord Byron 1788-1824: Childe Harold's Pilgrimage. Canto iii. Stanza 92.

It is not strength, but art, obtains the prize,

And to be swift is less than to be wise.

'T is more by art than force of num'rous strokes.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): The Iliad of Homer. Book xxiii. Line 383.

In lazy apathy let stoics boast

Their virtue fix'd: 't is fix'd as in a frost;

Contracted all, retiring to the breast;

But strength of mind is exercise, not rest.

Alexander Pope (1688-1744): Essay on Man. Epistle ii. Line 101.

Mightier far

Than strength of nerve or sinew, or the sway

Of magic potent over sun and star,

Is Love, though oft to agony distrest,

And though his favorite seat be feeble woman's breast.

William Wordsworth (1770-1850): Laodamia.

The strength

Of twenty men.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Romeo and Juliet. Act v. Sc. 1.

Hang out our banners on the outward walls;

The cry is still, "They come!" our castle's strength

Will laugh a siege to scorn.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): Macbeth. Act v. Sc. 5.

O Proserpina,

For the flowers now, that frighted thou let'st fall

From Dis's waggon! daffodils,

That come before the swallow dares, and take

The winds of March with beauty; violets dim,

But sweeter than the lids of Juno's eyes

Or Cytherea's breath; pale primroses,

That die unmarried, ere they can behold

Bright Phoebus in his strength,—a malady

Most incident to maids; bold oxlips and

The crown imperial; lilies of all kinds,

The flower-de-luce being one.

William Shakespeare (1564-1616): The Winter's Tale. Act iv. Sc. 4.

Profan'd the God-given strength, and marr'd the lofty line.

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832): Marmion. Introduction to Canto i.

'T is slight, not strength, that gives the greatest lift.

Thomas Middleton (1580-1627): Michaelmas Term. Act iv. Sc. 1.

The picture placed the busts between

Adds to the thought much strength;

Wisdom and Wit are little seen,

But Folly's at full length.

Jane Brereton (1685-1740): On Beau Nash's Picture at full length between the Busts of Sir Isaac Newton and Mr. Pope.

That tower of strength

Which stood four-square to all the winds that blew.

Alfred Tennyson (1809-1892): Ode on the Death of the Duke of Wellington. Stanza 4.

May I govern my passion with absolute sway,

And grow wiser and better as my strength wears away.

Walter Pope (1630-1714): The Old Man's Wish.