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Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations by Various

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Wordsworth's healing power, 2103.

Work, free men freely, 2104.
men must, 2105.
there is always, 1923.

Workmen, when, strive, 424.

World, bestride the narrow, 355.
I have not loved the, 2110.
is all a fleeting show, 2109.
service of the antique, 91.
this pendent, 2108.
too much respect upon the, 2107.
uncertain comes and goes, 191.

World 's, the, a theatre, 28.

Worm, the smallest, will turn, 2111.

Worship without words, 2112.

Worth, courage, honor, 296.
makes the man, 2113.

Wound, willing to, 2115.

Wounds bind up my, 2114.
wept o'er his, 707.

Wrath, Achilles', 2117.
come not within my, 2116.

Wreaths, victorious 2118.

Wrecks, a thousand fearful, 2119.

Wretch, a needy, 2120.
an inhuman, 446.

Wretches hang that jurymen may dine, 950.
that depend on greatness' favor, 689.

Wrinkle what stamps the, 59.

Write you, with ease 2121.

Writing well, nature's chief masterpiece, 2122.

Wrong forever on the throne, 1970.
on, swift vengeance waits, 2123.

Wrongs unredressed, 2124.


Xerxes did die, 2125.


Years following years, 2127.
I sigh not over vanished, 2128.
none would live past, 2129.
the accomplishment of, 2126.

Yesterday, oh, call back, 2130.
the word of Caesar might, 254.

Yew, hails me to wonder, 548.
old, which graspest, 2131.

Youth, home keeping, 2133.
how beautiful is, 2135.
how buoyant are thy hopes, 2134.
lost days of our, 1306.
no less becomes, 2132.
on the prow, 2136.


Zeal, his, none seconded, 2138.
served my God with, 2137.

Zealots, graceless, fight, 663.

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Fans of the Harry Potter series will know that the Tales of Beedle the Bard is a well-known book among wizard children, "as familiar to many of the students of Hogwarts as Cinderella and Sleeping Beauty are to Muggle children."

It is in fact the very book that Dumbledore bequeathed to Hermione in the final Harry Potter instalment, the Deathly Hallows, in which she discovered the highly significant symbol of the Hallows. The plot of that story, told in full in the Deathly Hallows, is said to owe a debt to Chaucer's Pardoner.

In the Fountain of Fair Fortune, three woeful witches and a luckless knight (Sir Luckless, as it happens) seek to bathe in a magical fountain which can cure them of their ills.

Along the journey they manage to cure each other, and "none of them ever knew or suspected that the Fountain's waters carried no enchantment at all".

This reviewer, it must be said, saw that one coming. The Warlock's Hairy Heart is an unhappy tale concerning a wizard who uses magic to inoculate himself against falling in love (a decidedly qualified success); Babbitty Rabbitty and Her Cackling Stump has a charlatan instructing a foolish king in wizardry.

These little morality tales are complicated (and for those of us without a background in the Dark Arts, muddled) by the varying degrees of powers which the characters do or do not possess, and which may or may not work when the time comes.

This edition of The Tales carries explanatory notes by Dumbledore himself. These are more anecdote than exegesis but they occasionally amuse, and encourage further study. On the subject of bringing back the dead, for example, Dumbledore quotes the author of A Study into the Possibility of Reversing the Actual and Metaphysical Effects of Natural Death, With Particular Regard to the Reintegration of Essence and Matter, who famously said: "Give it up. It's never going to happen."

Additional footnotes by Rowling only serve further to confuse the lay reader. This one is strictly for the fan base, and it should make them very happy.

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