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Oh Rome! My country! City of the soul!

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Oh that the desert were my dwelling-place, With one fair spirit for my minister

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My beautiful, my own My only Venice-this is breath! Thy breeze Thine Adrian sea-breeze, how it fans my face! Thy very winds feel native to my veins, And cool them into calmness!

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There's not a joy the world can give like that it takes away.

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Nothing so fretful, so despicable as a Scribbler, see what I am, and what a parcel of Scoundrels I have brought about my ears, and what language I have been obliged to treat them with to deal with them in their own way; - all this comes of Authorship.

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Champagne with its foaming whirls/As white as Cleopatra's pearls.

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Do proper homage to thine idol's eyes; But no too humbly, or she will despise Thee and thy suit, though told in moving tropes: Disguise even tenderness if thou art wise.

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I shall soon be six-and-twenty. Is there anything in the future that can possibly console us for not being always twenty-five?

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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

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Time strips our illusions of their hue, And one by one in turn, some grand mistake Casts off its bright skin yearly like the snake.

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A change came o'er the spirit of my dream.

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Next to dressing for a rout or ball, undressing is a woe.

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I stood in Venice, on the Bridge of Sighs, A palace and a prison on each hand.

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Like to the apples on the Dead Sea's shore, All ashes to the taste.

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I slept and dreamt that life was beauty; I woke and found that life was duty.

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When we two parted In silence and tears, Half broken-hearted, To sever for years.

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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy! Oh, for a hymn Loud as the virtues thou dost loudly vaunt, Not practise!

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And the small ripple spilt upon the beach Scarcely o'erpass'd the cream of your champagne, When o'er the brim the sparkling bumpers reach, That spring-dew of the spirit! the heart's rain! Few things surpass old wine; and they may preach Who please,—the more because they preach in vain,— Let us have wine and women, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda-water the day after.

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Good but rarely came from good advice.

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Exhausting thought, And hiving wisdom with each studious year.

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