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The earth, though in comparison of heaven so small, nor glistering, may of solid good contain more plenty than the sun, that barren shines.

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Blind mouths! That scarce themselves know how to hold A sheep-hook.

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Let not England forget her precedence of teaching nations how to live.

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Just deeds are the best answer to injurious words.

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[Rhyme is] but the invention of a barbarous age, to set off wretched matter and lame Meter; ... Not without cause therefore some both Italian and Spanish poets of prime note have rejected rhyme, ... as have also long since our best English tragedies, as... trivial and of no true musical delight; which [truly] consists only in apt numbers, fit quantity of syllables, and the sense variously drawn out from one verse into another, not in the jingling sound of like endings, a fault avoided by the learned ancients both in poetry and all good oratory.

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Such sights as youthful poets dream On summer eves by haunted stream. Then to the well-trod stage anon, If Jonson's learned sock be on, Or sweetest Shakespeare, Fancy's child, Warble his native wood-notes wild.

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Thoughts that voluntary move Harmonious numbers.

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Death Grinn'd horrible a ghastly smile, to hear His famine should be fill'd.

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Which, if not victory, is yet revenge.

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The hungry sheep look up, and are not fed.

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Sweet intercourse of looks and smiles; for smiles from reason flow.

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How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets Where no crude surfeit reigns

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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The sun to me is dark And silent as the moon, When she deserts the night Hid in her vacant interlunar cave.

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Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.

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For no falsehood can endure Touch of celestial temper.

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If this fail, The pillar'd firmament is rottenness, And earth's base built on stubble.

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Fairy elves, Whose midnight revels by a forest side Or fountain some belated peasant sees, Or dreams he sees, while overhead the moon Sits arbitress.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.

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