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Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 't was natural to please. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 27) [Nature] Whatever he did, was done with so much ease, In him alone 'twas natural to please. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 27) [Grace] And nobler is a limited command, Given by the love of all your native land, Than a successive title, long and dark, Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's Ark. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 299) [Love of Country] But far more numerous was the herd of such, Who think too little, and who talk too much. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 533) [Talk] A man so various, that he seem'd to be Not one, but all mankind's epitome; Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong. Was everything by starts, and nothing long; But in the course of one revolving moon, Was chymist, fiddler, statesman, and buffoon. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 545) [Character : Proverbs] So over violent, or over civil, That every man with him was God or Devil. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 557) [Character] His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 645) [Gentlemen : Man] Such subtle covenants shall be made, Till peace itself is war in masquerade. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 752; pt. II, l. 268) [Peace] For who can be secure of private right, If sovereign sway may be dissolved by might? Nor is the people's judgment always true: The most may err as grossly as the few. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 779) [Public] Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 868) [Sense] But Esau's hands suit ill with Jacob's voice. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. I, l. 982) [Deceit] For every inch that is not fool, is rogue. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II, l. 463) [Character] Doeg, though without knowing how or why, Made a still a blundering kind of melody; Spurr'd boldly on, and dash'd through thick and thin, Through sense and nonsense, never out nor in; Free from all meaning whether good or bad, And in one word, heroically mad. - Absalom and Achitophel (pt. II,, l. 412), "Thick and Thin" [Poetry] Behold him setting in his western skies, The shadows lengthening as the vapours rise. - Absalom and Achitophel (st. 1, l. 268) [Sun] Two gates the silent house of Sleep adorn: Of polished ivory this, that of transparent horn: True visions through transparent horn arise; Through polished ivory pass deluding lies. - Aeneid (bk. VI, 894) [Sleep] Sigh'd and look'd, and sigh'd again. - Alexander's Feast (l. 120) [Sighs] And, like another Helen, fir'd another Troy. - Alexander's Feast (l. 154) [Women] Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire. - Alexander's Feast (l. 160) [Ability] He raised a mortal to the skies; She drew an angel down. - Alexander's Feast (l. 169) [Influence] With ravish'd ears The monarch hears, Assumes the god, Affects to nod, And seems to shake the spheres. - Alexander's Feast (l. 37) [Gods] Rich the treasure, Sweet the pleasure, Sweet is pleasure after pain. - Alexander's Feast (l. 58) [Pleasure] Sooth'd with the sound, the king grew vain: Fought all his battles o'er again; And thrice he routed all his foes, and thrice he slew the slain. - Alexander's Feast (l. 66) [Vanity] Fallen, fallen, fallen, fallen, Fallen from his high estate, And welt'ring in his blood; Deserted at his utmost need, By those his former bounty fed; On the bare earth expos'd he lies, With not a friend to close his eyes. - Alexander's Feast (l. 77) [Misfortune] For pity melts the mind to love. Softly sweet, in Lydian measures, Soon he sooth'd his soul to pleasures. War, he sung, is toll and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. - Alexander's Feast (l. 96) [Pity] War, he sung, is toil and trouble; Honour but an empty bubble. - Alexander's Feast (l. 99) [War] Displaying page 14 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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