An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
JOHN DRYDENAn horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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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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I am as free as nature first made man, Ere the base laws of servitude began, When wild in woods the noble savage ran.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Great wits are sure to madness near allied, and thin partitions do their bounds divide.
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Self-defense is Nature’s eldest law.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Ill habits gather unseen degrees, as brooks make rivers, rivers run to seas.
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Present joys are more to flesh and blood Than a dull prospect of a distant good.
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All objects lose by too familiar a view.
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Griefs assured are felt before they come.
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Nor is the people’s judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.
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Imagining is in itself the very height and life of poetry, which, by a kind of enthusiasm or extraordinary emotion of the soul, makes it seem to us that we behold those things which the poet paints.
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Freedom which in no other land will thrive, Freedom an English subject’s sole prerogative.
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God never made his work for man to mend.
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Love is a passion Which kindles honor into noble acts.
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