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“My soul is dark! oh quickly string
The harp I yet can brook to hear.”
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“Now, my sere fancy "falls into the yellow
Leaf," and imagination droops her pinion;
And the sad truth, which hovers o'er my desk,
Turns what was once romantic to burlesque.”
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“O ye who teach the ingenuous youth of nations--
Holland, France, England, Germany or Spain;
I pray ye flog them upon all occasions,
It mends their morals--never mind the pain.”
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“On with the dance, let joy be unconfined.”
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“She can change her
Mind like the wind: whatever she has said
Or done, is light to what she'll say or do.”
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“Shows that we build, when we should but entomb us.”
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“Slight are the outward signs of evil thought.”
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“Some good lessons
Are also learnt from Ceres and from Bacchus,
Without whom Venus will not long attack us.”
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“Strike up the dance, the cava bowl fill high.”
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“Sweet to the father is his first-born's birth!”
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“That father perished at the stake
For tenets he would not forsake.”
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“The Baal-adorer bows on Sinai's steep;
Yet there, e'en there, O God, thy thunders sleep.”
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“The mind that broods o'er guilty woes
Is like a scorpion girt by fire.”
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“The present century was growing blind
To the great Marlborough's skill in giving knocks,
Until his late life by Archdeacon Coxe.”
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“The would-be wits and can't-be gentlemen.”
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“There is an order
Of mortals on the earth, who do become
Old in their youth, and die ere middle age.”
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“There rose no day, there roll'd no hour
Of pleasure unembitter'd;
And not a trapping deck'd my power,
That gall'd not while it glitter'd.”
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“There's nothing makes me so much grieve,
As that abominable tittle-tattle,
Which is the cud eschew'd by human cattle.”
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“They kindly leave us, but not quite alone,
But in good company, the gout or stone.”
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“Think you if Laura had been Petrarch's wife
He would have written sonnets all his life?”
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“Though fame is smoke,
Its fumes are frankincense to human thought.”
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“'Tis best to pause, and think, ere you rush on.”
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“'Tis said the lion will turn and flee
From a maid in the pride of her purity.”
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“'Tis strange, but true: for truth is always strange;
Stranger than fiction.”
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“'Tis very certain the desire of life
Prolongs it.”
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