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Hail, fellow, well met, All dirty and wet: Find out, if you can, Who's master, who's man. - My Lady's Lamentation [Investigation : Proverbial Phrases] The artillery of words. - Ode to Sancroft (l. 13) [Words] War, that mad game the world so loves to play. - Ode to Sir Wm. Temple [War] Virtue, the greatest of all monarchies. - Ode--To the Hon. Sir William Temple [Virtue] I'm up and down and round about, Yet all the world can't find me out; Though hundreds have employed their leisure, They never yet could find my measure. - On a Circle [Circles] Those dreams, that on the silent night intrude, And with false flitting shades our minds delude, Jove never sends us downward from the skies; Nor can they from infernal mansions rise; But are all mere productions of the brain, And fools consult interpreters in vain. - On Dreams [Dreams] A forward critic often dupes us With sham quotations peri hupsos. And if we have not read Longinus, Will magisterially outshine us. Then, lest with Greek he over-run ye, Procure the book for love or money, Translated from Boileau's translation, And quote quotation on quotation. - On Poetry [Quotations] Then, rising with Aurora's light, The Muse invoked, sit down to write; Blot out, correct, insert, refine, Enlarge, diminish, interline. - On Poetry [Poets] For, poems read without a name, We justly praise, or justly blame; And critics have no partial views, Except they know whom they abuse. And since you ne'er provoke their spite, Depend upon't their judgment's right. - On Poetry (l. 129) [Criticism] A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign power, Like other baubles in the Tower: Is generous, valiant, just, and wise, And so continues till he dies. - On Poetry (l. 191) [Royalty] In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent to ease us, Points out some circumstance to please us. - On the Death of Dr. Swift, a paraphrase of Rochefoucauld's "Maxim" [Adversity] I with borrow'd silver shine, What you see is none of mine. First I show you but a quarter, Like the bow that guards the Tartar: Then the half, and then the whole, Ever dancing round the pole. - On the Moon [Moon] Ever eating, never cloying, All devouring, all-destroying, Never finding full repast, Till I eat the world at last. - On Time [Time] Walls have tongues, and hedges ears. - Pastoral Dialogue (l. 7) [Proverbs] Where Young must torture his invention To flatter knaves, or lose his pension. - Poetry, a Rhapsody (l. 279) [Flattery] Hobbes clearly proves that every creature Lives in a state of war by nature. - Poetry--A Rhapsody [War] So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller still to bite 'em, And so proceed ad infinitum. Thus every poet in his kind Is bit by him that comes behind. - Poetry--A Rhapsody [Fleas] Do you think I was born in a wood to be afraid of an owl? - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Fear] I mean you lie--under a mistake. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Lying] I swear she's no chicken; she's on the wrong side of thirty, if she be a day. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Age] I won't quarrel with my bread and butter. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Quarreling] She looks as if butter wouldn't melt in her mouth. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Appearance] She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Apparel] The sight of you is good for sore eyes. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Eyes] What religion is he of? Why, he is an Anythingarian. - Polite Conversation (dialogue I) [Religion] Displaying page 10 of 12 for this author: << Prev Next >> 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 [10] 11 12
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