When Harvey’s violent passion she did see, Began to tremble and to flee; Took sanctuary, like Daphne, in a tree
ABRAHAM COWLEYPlenty, as well as Want, can separate friends.
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Man is too near all kinds of beasts,–a fawning dog, a roaring lion, a thieving fox, a robbing wolf, a dissembling crocodile, a treacherous decoy, and a rapacious vulture.
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Till the whole stream, which stopped him, should be gone, That runs, and as it runs, for ever will run on.
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Does not the passage of Moses and the Israelites into the Holy Land yield incomparably more poetic variety than the voyages of Ulysses or Aeneas?
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I confess I love littleness almost in all things. A little convenient estate, a little cheerful house, a little company, and a little feast.
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His time’s forever, everywhere his place.
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Nay, in death’s hand, the grape-stone proves As strong as thunder is in Jove’s.
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The present is an eternal now.
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Stones of small worth may lie unseen by day, But night itself does the rich gem betray.
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Acquaintance I would have, but when it depends; not on number, but the choice of friends.
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And I myself a Catholic will be, So far at least, great saint, to pray to thee. Hail, Bard triumphant! and some care bestow On us, the Poets militant below.
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Nothing in Nature’s sober found, But an eternal Health goes round. Fill up the Bowl then, fill it high
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The liberty of a people consists in being governed by laws which they have made themselves, under whatsoever form it be of government
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For the whole world, without a native home, Is nothing but a prison of larger room.
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I never had any other desire so strong, and so like covetousness, as that
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Water and air He for the Tenor chose, Earth made the Base, the Treble Fame arose,
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