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So was she soon exhaled, and vanished hence; As a sweet odour, of a vast expense. She vanished, we can scarcely say she died. - Elegiacs--To the Memory of Mrs. Anne Killegrew (l. 303) [Death] Since Heaven's eternal year is thine. - Elegy on Mrs. Killegrew (l. 15) [Heaven] Her wit was more than man, her innocence a child. - Elegy on Mrs. Killigrew (l. 70) [Character] Not aw'd to duty by superior sway. - Eleonora (l. 178) [Duty] Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace. - Epistle to Congreve (l. 19) [Character] Be kind to my remains; and O defend, Against your judgment, your departed friend. - Epistle to Congreve (l. 72) [Friends] Lord of oneself, uncumbered with a name. - Epistle to John Dryden [Soul] Better to hunt in fields for health unbought, Than fee the doctor for a nauseous draught. The wise for cure on exercise depend; God never made his work for man to mend. - Epistle to John Dryden of Chesterton (l. 92) [Medicine] But genius must be born, and never can be taught. - Epistle X--To Congreve (l. 60) [Genius] The spectacles of books. - Essay on Dramatic Poetry [Books] How dull, and how insensible a beast Is man, who yet would lord it o'er the rest. - Essay on Satire (I, 1), written by Dryden and the Earl of Mulgrave [Man] According to her cloth she cut her coat. - Fables--Cock and Fox (l. 20) [Prudence] Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes; When monarch reason sleeps, this mimic wakes. - Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 325) [Dreams] For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss. - Fables--The Cock and the Fox (l. 452) [Nature] And kind as kings upon their coronation day. - Fables--The Hind and the Panther (pt. I, l. 271) [Royalty] For those whom God to ruin has designed He fits for fate, and first destroys their mind. - Fables--The Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 2,387) [Insanity] At every close she made, th' attending throng Replied, and bore the burden of the song: So just, so small, yet in so sweet a note, It seemed the music melted in the throat. - Flower and the Leaf (l. 197) [Singing] Ever a glutton, at another's cost, But in whose kitchen dwells perpetual frost. - Fourth Satire of Persius (l. 58) [Cookery] With odorous oil thy head and hair are sleek; And then thou kemb'st the tuzzes on thy cheek: Of these, my barber take a costly care. - Fourth Satire of Persius (l. 89) [Barber] I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night. - Hind and Panther (pt. II, l. 1,230) [Morning] All, as they say, that glitters is not gold. - Hind and the Panther [Appearance] By education most have been misled. - Hind and the Panther (pt. III, l. 389) [Education] And virtue, though in rags, will keep me warm. - Imitation of Horace (bk. I, ode XXIX, l. 87) [Virtue] Happy the man, and happy he alone, He, who can call to-day his own: He who, secure within, can say, Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have liv'd today. - Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 65) [Today : Tomorrow] Not heaven itself upon the past has power; But what has been, has been, and I have had my hour. - Imitation of Horace (bk. III, ode XXIX, l. 71) [Past] Displaying page 17 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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