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8 Quotes for 'Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon' in the Database.
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The press, the pulpit, and the stage,
Conspire to censure and expose our age.
Topic: Criticism
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 7)
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Men still had faults, and men will have them still;
He that hath none, and lives as angels do,
Must be an angel.
- Wentworth Dillon, Earl of Roscomon,
Topic: Faults
Source: Miscellanies--On Mr. Dryden's Religio Laici (l. 8)
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Thou whom avenging pow'rs obey,
Cancel my debt (too great to pay)
Before the sad accounting day.
Topic: Forgiveness
Source: On the Day of Judgment (st. 11)
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Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Topic: Modesty
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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Pride (of all others the most dang'rous fault)
Proceeds from want of sense, or want of thought.
Topic: Pride
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 161)
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Immodest words admit of no defence;
For want of decency is want of sense.
Topic: Proverbs
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 113)
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The multitude is always in the wrong.
Topic: Public
Source: Essay on Translated Verse (l. 184)
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'Tis I that call, remember Milo's end,
Wedged in that timber which he strove to rend.
Topic: Punishment
Source: Essay on Translated Verse--Ovid
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