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What ill-starr'd rage Divides a friendship long confirm'd by age? - The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 173) [Friendship] But blind to former as to future fate, What mortal knows his pre-existent state? - The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 47) [Fate] Hence the fool's paradise, the statesman's scheme, The air-built castle, and the golden dream, The maid's romantic wish, the chemist's flame, And poet's vision of eternal fame. - The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 9) [Visions] Another yet the same. - The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 90) [Comparison] See Christians, Jews, one heavy sabbath keep, And all the western world believe and sleep. - The Dunciad (bk. III, l. 99) [Sabbath] And you, my Critics! in the chequer'd shade, Admire new light thro' holes yourselves have made. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 125) [Criticism] Then rose the seed of Chaos, and of Night, To blot out order and extinguish light. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 13) [Chaos] The right divine of kings to govern wrong. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 188) [Government] So upright Quakers please both man and God. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 208) [Religion] To happy convents, bosom'd deep in vines, Where slumber abbots purple as their wines. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 301) [Religion] Thee too, my Paridel! she mark'd thee there, Stretch'd on the rack of a too easy chair, And heard thy everlasting yarn confess The Pains and Penalties of Idleness. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 341) [Idleness] And empty heads console with empty sound. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 542) [Speech] Others import yet nobler arts from France, Teach kings to fiddle, and make senates dance. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 597) [Dancing] Lo: thy dread empire, Chaos, is restored; Light dies before thy uncreating word: Thy hand, great Anarch! lets the curtain fall; And universal darkness buries all. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 649) [Chaos] Religion, blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 649) [Religion] A wit with dunces, and a dunce with wits. - The Dunciad (bk. IV, l. 92) [Wit] So watchful Bruin forms with plastic care, Each growing lump and brings it to a bear. - The Dunciad (I, 101) [Education] From hyperborean skies Embodied dark, what clouds of vandals rise. - The Dunciad (III, l. 85) [Sky] Then take him to develop, if you can And hew the bock off, and get out the man. - The Dunciad (IV, 269) [Education] The world recedes; it disappears; Heav'n opens on my eyes; my ears With sounds seraphic ring: Lend, lend your wings! I mount! I fly! O Grave! where is thy victory? O Death! where is thy sting? - The Dying Christian to His Soul [Death] Vital spark of heav'nly flame! Quit, oh quit, this mortal frame! Trembling, hoping, ling'ring, flying, Oh, the pain, the bliss of dying! . . . Hark! they whisper; angels say, Sister Spirit, come away! - The Dying Christian to His Soul, paraphrase of Emperor Hadrian's "Ode of the Christian to His Soul" in the "Spectator", Nov. 15, 1711 [Death : Soul] Vital spark of heavenly flame! - The Dying Christian to His Soul [Death] There Affectation, with a sickly mien, Shows in her cheek the roses of eighteen. - The Rape of the Lock (canto 4) [Affectation] And all Arabia breathes from yonder box. - The Rape of the Lock (canto I, l. 134) [Perfume] And binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. - The Universal Prayer (st. 3) [Will] Displaying page 32 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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