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Of all the causes that conspire to blind Man's erring judgment, and misguide the mind, What the weak head with strongest bias rules, Is pride, the never-failing vice of fools. - [Pride] Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent. - [Deceit] Of little use, the man you may suppose, Who says in verse what others say in prose; Yet let me show a poet's of some weight, And (though no soldier) useful to the state, What will a child learn sooner than a song? What better teach a foreigner the tongue? What's long or short, each accent where to place And speak in public with some sort of grace? - [Verse] Oft in dreams invention we bestow to change a flounce or add a furbelow. - [Dress] Oh! be thou blest with all that Heaven can send, Long health, long youth, long pleasure--and a friend. - [Birthday] Oh! blest with temper, whose unclouded ray Can make to-morrow cheerful as to-day. - [Temper] On the rich quilt sinks with becoming woe, Wrapt in a gown, for sickness and show. - [Affectation] One master-passion in the breast, Like Aaron's serpent, swallows up the rest. - [Passion] One self-approving hour whole years outweighs. - [Conscience] Or will you think, my friend, your bus'ness done When, of a hundred thorns, you pull out one. - [Proverbs] Our passions are like convulsion fits, which, though they make us stronger for a time, leave us the weaker ever after. - [Passion] Papillia, wedded to her amorous spark, Sighs for the shades--"How charming is a park?" A park is purchas'd, but the fair he sees All bath'd in tears--"O odious, odious trees!" - [Fickleness] Peaceful sleep out the Sabbath of the tomb. - [Sabbath] Pleas'd to look forward, pleas'd to look behind, And count each birthday with a grateful mind. - [Birthday] Pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw. - [Proverbs] Pleasure, or wrong or rightly understood, Our greatest evil, or our greatest good. - [Pleasure] Poplars and alders ever quivering played, and nodding cypress formed a fragrant shade. - [Trees] Pretty conceptions, fine metaphors, glittering expressions, and something of a neat cast of verse are properly the dress, gems, or loose ornaments of poetry. - [Poetry] Pride, where wit fails, steps in to our defence, and fills up all the mighty void of sense. - [Pride] Ravished with the whistling of a name. - [Names] Reason raise o'er instinct as you can, In this 'tis God directs, in that 'tis man. - [Reason] Riches, like insects, when conceal'd they lie, Wait but for wings, and in their season fly. Who sees pale Mammon pine amidst his store, Sees but a backward steward for the poor; This year a reservoir, to keep and spare; The next a fountain, spouting thro' his heir In lavish streams to quench a country's thirst, And men and dogs shall drink him till they burst. - [Avarice] Rogues in rags are kept in countenance by rogues in ruffles. - [Rogues] Say why are beauties praised and honored most, The wise man's passion and the vain man's Toast. - [Toasts] Scipio, great in his triumphs, in retirement great. - [Retirement] Displaying page 7 of 34 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 [7] 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 33 34
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