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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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