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.
JOHN DRYDENBeauty, 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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Much malice mingled with a little wit Perhaps may censure this mysterious writ.
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Fool that I was, upon my eagle’s wings I bore this wren, till I was tired with soaring, and now he mounts above me.
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Our vows are heard betimes! and Heaven takes care To grant, before we can conclude the prayer: Preventing angels met it half the way, And sent us back to praise, who came to pray.
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Take not away the life you cannot give: For all things have an equal right to live.
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Some of our philosophizing divines have too much exalted the faculties of our souls, when they have maintained that by their force mankind has been able to find out God.
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Among our crimes oblivion may be set.
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For they can conquer who believe they can.
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Politicians neither love nor hate.
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Pains of love be sweeter far than all other pleasures are.
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Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.
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Virgil and Horace were the severest writers of the severest age.
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Blown roses hold their sweetness to the last.
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Beware of the fury of the patient man.
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Love reckons hours for months, and days for years; and every little absence is an age.
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Love is not in our choice but in our fate.
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