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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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Hide me from day's garish eye, While the bee with honied thigh, That at her flowery work doth sing, And the waters murmuring With such consort as they keep, Entice the dewy-feathered sleep.

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A thousand fantasies Begin to throng into my memory, Of calling shapes, and beckoning shadows dire, And airy tongues that syllable men's names On sands and shores and desert wildernesses

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The Angel ended, and in Adam's ear So charming left his voice, that he awhile Thought him still speaking, still stood fix'd to hear.

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Peace hath her victories, no less renowned than War.

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How oft, in nations gone corrupt, And by their own devices brought down to servitude, That man chooses bondage before liberty. Bondage with ease before strenuous liberty.

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Part of my soul I seek thee, and claim thee my other half

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By night the Glass Of Galileo ... observes Imagin'd Land and Regions in the Moon.

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This horror will grow mild, this darkness light.

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And storied windows richly dight, Casting a dim religious light.

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Hard are the ways of truth, and rough to walk.

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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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Heaven open'd wide Her ever during gates, harmonious sound, On golden hinges moving.

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Assuredly we bring not innocence not the world, we bring impurity much rather: that which purifies us is trial, and trial is by what is contrary.

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... then there was war in heaven. But it was not angels. It was that small golden zeppelin, like a long oval world, high up. It seemed as if the cosmic order were gone, as if there had come a new order, a new heavens above us: and as if the world in anger were trying to revoke it.

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Love-quarrels oft in pleasing concord end.

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Th' imperial ensign, which full high advanc'd Shone like a meteor, streaming to the wind.

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Sport, that wrinkled Care derides, And Laughter holding both his sides. Come and trip it as ye go, On the light fantastic toe.

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Her silent course advance With inoffensive pace, that spinning sleeps On her soft axle.

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I sat me down to watch upon a bank With ivy canopied and interwove With flaunting honeysuckle.

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