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All things but one you can restore; the heart you get returns no more. - [Heart] As Egypt does not on the clouds rely But to the Nile owes more than to the sky; So what our earth and what our heaven denies Our ever constant friend, the sea supplies. The taste of hot Arabia's spice we know, Free from the scorching sun that makes it grow; Without the worm in Persia's silks we shine; And without planting, drink of every vine, To dig for wealth we weary not our limbs. Gold, though the heaviest metal hither swims, Ours is the harvest where the Indians mow. We plough the deep, and reap what other sow. - [Commerce] Fade, flowers, fade! Nature will have it so; 'tis but what we in our autumn do. - [Flowers] Happy the innocent whose equal thoughts are free from anguish as they are from faults. - [Innocence] "His kingdom come!" For this we pray in vain, Unless He does in our affections reign. How fond it were to wish for such a King, And no obedience to his sceptre bring, Whose yoke is easy, and His burthen light; His service freedom, and His judgments right. - [Obedience] Music so softens and disarms the mind That not an arrow does resistance find. - [Music] Seeming devotion does but gild a knave, That's neither faithful, honest, just, nor brave; But where religion does with virtue join, It makes a hero like an angel shine. - [Devotion] Stronger by weakness, wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home. - [Age] The fear of God is freedom, joy, and peace; And makes all ills that vex us here to cease. - [Fear] What use of oaths, of promise, or of test, where men regard no God but interest? - [Oaths] While we converse with her, we mark No want of day, nor think it dark. - [Conversation] And as pale sickness does invade Your frailer part, the breaches made In that fair lodging still more clear Make the bright guest, your soul, appear. - A la Malade [Beauty] To love is to believe, to hope, to know; 'Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below! - Divine Poems--Divine Love (canto III, l. 17) [Love] Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above. - Divine Poems--Divine Love (canto III, l. 25) [Love] Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new. - Divine Poems--Works (p. 316), (ed. 1729) [World] Virtue's stronger guard than brass. - Epigram Upon the Golden Medal (l. 14) [Virtue] So must the writer, whose productions should Take with the vulgar, be of vulgar mould. - Epistle to Mr. Killegrew [Authorship] Circle are praised, not that abound In largeness, but the exactly round. - Long and Short Life [Circles] In other things the knowing artist may Judge better than the people; but a play, (Made for delight, and for no other use) If you approve it not, has no excuse. - Maid's Tragedy (prologue) [Acting] Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot. - Miscellanies, upon the Earl of Roscommon's translation of Horace "Ars Poetica", l. 41 [Poets] All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings. - Miscellanies (I, l. 163) [Worth] His love at once and dread instruct our thought; As man He suffer'd and as God He taught. - Of Divine Love (canto III, l. 41) [Christ] Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene. - Of Tea [Tea] And keeps that palace of the soul serene. - Of Tea (l. 9) [Soul] The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends. - Of the Danger His Majesty Escaped (l. 68) [Creation] Displaying page 1 of 2 for this author: Next >> [1] 2
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