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.
JOHN DRYDENThe trumpet’s loud clangor Excites us to arms.
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Faith is to believe what you do not yet see: the reward for this faith is to see what you believe. Thus all below is strength, and all above is grace.
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Satire is a kind of poetry in which human vices are reprehended.
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An hour will come, with pleasure to relate Your sorrows past, as benefits of Fate.
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Nothing to build, and all things to destroy.
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The scum that rises upmost, when the nation boils.
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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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Men’s virtues I have commended as freely as I have taxed their crimes.
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Love and Time with reverence use, Treat them like a parting friend: Nor the golden gifts refuse Which in youth sincere they send: For each year their price is more, And they less simple than before.
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They first condemn that first advised the ill.
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An horrible stillness first invades our ear, And in that silence we the tempest fear.
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Sure there’s contagion in the tears of friends.
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Trust on and think To-morrow will repay; To-morrow’s falser than the former day; Lies worse; and while it says, we shall be blest With some new Joys, cuts off what we possest.
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Sure there is none but fears a future state; And when the most obdurate swear they do not, Their trembling hearts belie their boasting tongues.
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There is a proud modesty in merit.
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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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