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Who think too little, and who talk too much. - [Babblers] Who thinks all science, as all virtue, vain. - [Science] With such deceits he gained their easy hearts, too prone to credit his perfidious arts. - [Deceit] Woman's honor is nice as ermine; it will not bear a soil. - [Honor] Words are but pictures of our thoughts. - [Thought] Ye moon and stars, bear witness to the truth. - [Moon] Ye realms, yet unreveal'd to human sight, Ye gods who rule the regions of the night, Ye gliding ghosts permit me to relate The mystic wonders of your silent state. - [Astronomy] Your Words are like the notes of dying swans, Too sweet to last. - [Eloquence] Zeal, the blind conductor of the will. - [Zeal] Night was our friend, our leader was Despair. - bk. II, 487, translation of Vergil's "Aeneid" [Despair] The soft complaining flute In dying notes discovers The woes of hopeless lovers, Whose dirge is whisper'd by the warbling lute. - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day [Music] From harmony, from heavenly harmony, This universal frame began: From harmony, to harmony Through all the compass of the notes it ran, The diapason closing full in man. - A Song for St. Cecilia's Day (l. 11) [Creation] Some truth there was, but dash'd and brew'd with lies, To please the fools, and puzzle all the wise. - Absalom and Achitophel [Lying] Stiff in opinion, always in the wrong. - Absalom and Achitophel (I, 545) [Opinion] Bankrupt of life, yet prodigal of ease. - Absalom and Achitophel (l. 168) [Life] Beware the fury of a patient man. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 1005) [Anger : Proverbs] A fiery soul, which, working out its way, Fretted the pygmy-body to decay, And o'er-informed the tenement of clay. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 156) [Soul] A daring pilot in extremity; Pleas'd with the danger, when the waves went high He sought the storms. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 159) [Danger] Great wits are sure to madness near allied, And thin partitions do their bounds divide. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 163) [Wit] And all to leave what with his toil he won, To that unfeather'd two-legged thing, a son. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 169) [Inheritance] Resolv'd to ruin or to rule the state. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 174) [Government] And heaven had wanted one immortal song. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 197) [Songs] But wild Ambition loves to slide, not stand, And Fortune's ice prefers to Virtue's land. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 198) [Ambition] Drawn to the dregs of a democracy. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 227) [Democracy] The people's prayer, the glad diviner's theme! The young men's vision, and the old men's dream. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 238) [Visions] Displaying page 13 of 21 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
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