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Variety alone gives joy; The sweetest meats the soonest cloy. - The Turtle and the Sparrow (l. 234) [Variety] A Rechabite poor Will must live, And drink of Adam's ale. - The Wandering Pilgrim [Water] Let him be kept from paper, pen, and ink; So may he cease to write, and learn to think. - To a Person who Wrote Ill--On Same Person [Authorship : Proverbs] Live to explain thy doctrine by thy life. - To Dr. Sherlock--On his Practical Discourse Concerning Death [Doctrine] Our hopes, like tow'ring falcons, aim At objects in an airy height; The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. - To Hon. Charles Montague [Hope] For, when with beauty we can virtue join, We paint the semblance of a form divine. - To the Countess of Oxford [Beauty] The little pleasure of the game Is from afar to view the flight. - To the Hon. C. Montague [Pleasure] From ignorance our comfort flows, The only wretched are the wise. - To the Hon. Charles Montague [Ignorance] I never strove to rule the roast, She ne'er refus'd to pledge my toast. - Turtle and Sparrow [Cookery] They never taste who always drink; They always talk who never think. - Upon a Passage in the Scaligerana [Drinking : Talk] Displaying page 5 of 5 for this author: << Prev 1 2 3 4 [5]
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