Alexander's Feast-Continued.

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Take the good the gods provide thee.

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Sighed and looked, and sighed again.

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And, like another Helen, fired another Troy.

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Could swell the soul to rage, or kindle soft desire.

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He raised a mortal to the skies,

She drew an angel down.

CYMON AND IPHIGENIA.

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He trudged along, unknowing what he sought,
And whistled as he went, for want of thought.

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She hugged the offender, and forgave the offence, Sex to the last.

ABSALOM AND ACHITOPHEL.

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Whate'er he did, was done with so much ease,
In him alone 't was natural to please.

Absolom and Achitophel -- Continued

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A fiery soul, which, working out its way,
Fretted the pigmy body to decay,
And o'er informed the tenement of clay.

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Great wits are sure to madness near allied,
And thin partitions do their bounds divide.

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And all to leave what with his toil he won,
To that unfeather'd two-legg'd thing, a son.

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Resolved to ruin or to rule the state.

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The people's prayer-the glad diviner's theme, young men's vision, and the old men's dream.*

The

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Than a successive title, long and dark,

Drawn from the mouldy rolls of Noah's ark.

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Not only hating David, but the king.

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Who think too little, and who talk too much.

*Your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions.-Joel iii. 28.

Absalom and Achitophel - Continued.

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A man so various, that he seemed to be
Not one, but all mankind's epitome;
Stiff in opinions, always in the wrong,
Was every thing by starts, and nothing long.

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So over violent, or over civil,

That every man with him was God or devil.

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His tribe were God Almighty's gentlemen.

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Him of the western dome, whose weighty sense
Flows in fit words and heavenly eloquence.

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Beware the fury of a patient man.

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And dashed through thick and thin.*

For

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every inch, that is not fool, is rogue.

*Through thick and thin, both over banck and bush,

In hopes her to attaine by hooke or crooke.

Fairie Queene. Book 3. c. i. st. 17.

All for Love. Prologue.

Errors like straws upon the surface flow;

He who would search for pearls must dive below.

Act iv. Sc. i.

Men are but children of a larger growth.

The Tempest. Prologue.

But Shakspeare's magic could not copied be;
Within that circle none durst walk but he.

Conquest of Grenada. Part i. Sc. 1.

I am as free as nature first made man,
Ere the base laws of servitude began,
When wild in woods the noble savage ran.

Spanish Friar.

Act ii. Sc. 1.

There is a pleasure

In being mad which none but madmen know.

Don Sebastian. Act i. Sc. 1.

This is the porcelain clay of human kind.

Translation of Juvenal's 10th Satire.

Look round the habitable world, how few
Know their own good, or, knowing it, pursue.

Prologue to Lee's Sophonisba.

Thespis, the first professor of our art,

At country wakes sung ballads from a cart.

Imitation of the 29th of Horace.

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Happy the man, and happy he alone,

He, who can call to-day his own:

He who, secure within, can say,

To-morrow do thy worst, for I have lived to-day.

Mac Flecknoe.

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But Shadwell never deviates into sense.

The Cock and Fox.

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For Art may err, but Nature cannot miss.

Theodore and Honoria.

And that one hunting, which the devil design'd For one fair female, lost him half the kind.

On Milton.

Three Poets, in three distant ages born,
Greece, Italy, and England did adorn ;
The first in loftiness of thought surpassed,
The next in majesty, in both the last.
The force of nature could no further go;
To make a third she joined the former two.