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Your politicians Have evermore a taint of vanity, As hasty still to show, and boast a plot As they are greedy to contrive it. - [Politics] For angling-rod he took a sturdy oak; For line, a cable that in storm ne'er broke; His hook was such as heads the end of pole To pluck down house ere fire consumes it whole; This hook was bated with a dragon's tail,-- And then on rock he stood to bob for whale. - Brittania Triumphans (p. 15) [Fishing] The monument of vanished mindes. - Gondibert (bk. II, canto V) [Books] Because they commonly make use of treasure found in books, as of other treasure belonging to the dead and hidden underground; for they dispose of both with great secrecy, defacing the shape and image of the one as much as of the other. - Gondibert--Preface [Plagiarism] But ask not bodies (doomed to die), To what abode they go; Since knowledge is but sorrow's spy, It is not safe to know. - The Just Italian (act V, sc. 1) [Knowledge] The lark now leaves his watery nest, And climbing, shakes his dewy wings. He takes your window for the East And to implore your light he sings. - The Lark now Leaves his Watery Nest [Larks] Displaying page 2 of 2 for this author: << Prev 1 [2]
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