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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

John Dryden

Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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Human Kind Poetry Satire Vice
He invades authors like a monarch; and what would be theft in other poets is only victory in him.
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Author Himself Poet Theft Victory
Men are but children of a larger growth, Our appetites as apt to change as theirs, And full as craving too, and full as vain.
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Children Crave Growth Man
War seldom enters but where wealth allures.
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Seldom War Wealth
Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Crime Freedom Tax Virtue
Hushed as midnight silence.
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One Liner Silence
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews.
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Charge Mindset Revenge Sharp
The bravest men are subject most to chance.
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Brave Chance Man Subject
Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Absence Age Love Time
All heiresses are beautiful.
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Beautiful One Liner
They think too little who talk too much.
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Talk Thinking
When we view elevated ideas of Nature, the result of that view is admiration, which is always the cause of pleasure.
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Ideas Nature Pleasure View
Every language is so full of its own proprieties that what is beautiful in one is often barbarous, nay, sometimes nonsense, in another.
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Beautiful Language Oneself
For what can power give more than food and drink, To live at ease, and not be bound to think?
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Bound Drink Food Live Power Thinking
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
All things are subject to decay and when fate summons, monarchs must obey.
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Decay Monarch Obedience Subject

Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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Railing and praising were his usual themes; and both showed his judgment in extremes. Either over violent or over civil, so everyone to him was either god or devil.

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