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I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

John Dryden

Pity only on fresh objects stays, but with the tedious sight of woes decays.
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Fresh Object Pity Sight
Pity melts the mind to love.
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Love Mindset Pity
All empire is no more than power in trust.
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Empire Power Trust
Shame on the body for breaking down while the spirit perseveres.
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Body Break Preservation Shame Spirit
A farce is that in poetry which grotesque (caricature) is in painting. The persons and actions of a farce are all unnatural, and the manners false, that is, inconsistent with the characters of mankind; and grotesque painting is the just resemblance of this.
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Character Kind Man Natural Painting Person Poetry
He look’d in years, yet in his years were seen A youthful vigor, and autumnal green.
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Green Himself Youth
None are so busy as the fool and the knave.
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Busy Fools
More liberty begets desire of more; The hunger still increases with the store.
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Desire Hungry Liberty Store
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Riches cannot rescue from the grave, which claims alike the monarch and the slave.
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Claim Grave Rich Slave
Truth is never to be expected from authors whose understanding is warped with enthusiasm.
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Authors Enthusiasm Expectation Truth
What precious drops are those, Which silently each other’s track pursue, Bright as young diamonds in their faint dew?
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Dew Precious Pursue Track Young
Beauty, like ice, our footing does betray; Who can tread sure on the smooth, slippery way: Pleased with the surface, we glide swiftly on, And see the dangers that we cannot shun.
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Beautiful Dangerous Surface Way
Shakespeare was the Homer, or father of our dramatic poets;Jonson was theVirgil, the pattern of elaborate writing; I admire him, but I love Shakespeare.
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Admire Drama Father Himself Home Poet Writing
If all the world be worth thy winning. / Think, oh think it worth enjoying: / Lovely Thaïs sits beside thee, / Take the good the gods provide thee.
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God Goodness Love Thinking World
Only man clogs his happiness with care, destroying what is with thoughts of what may be.
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Care Destroy Happiness Man Thinking

I saw myself the lambent easy light Gild the brown horror, and dispel the night.

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