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Ages of ignorance and simplicity are thought to be ages of purity. But the direct contrary I believe to be the case. Rude periods have that grossness of manners, which is as unfriendly to virtue as luxury itself. Men are less ashamed as they are less polished. - [Refinement] All the human race, from China to Peru, pleasure, howev'r disguised by art, pursue. - [Pleasure] Montesquieu wittily observes that, by building professed madhouses, men tacitly insinuate that all who are out of their senses are to be found only in those places. - [Madness] Nor rough, nor barren, are the winding ways Of hoar Antiquity, but strewn with flowers. - written in a blank leaf of Dugdale's Monasticon [Antiquity] Our royal master saw with heedful eyes The state of his two universities; To one he sends a regiment, for why? That learned body wanted loyalty. To the other books he gave, as well discerning, How much that loyal body wanted learning. - attributed to, on George I's donation to Cambridge University [Learning] Where in venerable rows Widely waving oaks enclose The moat of yonder antique hall, Swarm the rooks with clamorous call; And, to the toils of nature true, Wreath their capacious nests anew. - Ode X [Rooks] Fancy with prophetic glance Sees the teeming months advance; The field, the forest, green and gay; The dappled slope, the tedded hay; Sees the reddening orchard blow, The Harvest wave, the vintage flow. - Ode--The First of April (l. 97) [Harvest] All human race from China to Peru, Pleasure, howe'er disguis'd by art, pursue. - The Universal Love of Pleasure [Traveling]
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