The Traveller - Continued.

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Such is the patriot's boast, where'er we roam,
His first, best country ever is at home.

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By sports like these are all their cares beguiled ; The sports of children satisfy the child.

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But winter lingering chills the lap of May.

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So the loud torrent, and the whirlwind's roar,
But bind him to his native mountains more.

Line 251. Alike all ages: dames of ancient days Have led their children through the mirthful maze; And the gay grandsire, skilled in gestic lore, Has frisked beneath the burden of threescore.

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Pride in their port, defiance in their eye,
I see the lords of human kind pass by.

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The land of scholars, and the nurse of arms.

Line 372. For just experience tells, in every soil, That those that think must govern those that toil.

The Traveller - Continued.

Line 386. Laws grind the poor, and rich men rule the law.

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Forced from their homes, a melancholy train.

THE DESERTED VILLAGE.

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For talking age and whispering lovers made.

Line 51. Ill fares the land to hastening ills a prey, Where wealth accumulates, and men decay. Princes and lords may flourish, or may fade, A breath can make them as a breath has made; But a bold peasantry, their country's pride, When once destroyed, can never be supplied.

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And his best riches, ignorance of wealth.

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A youth of labor with an age of ease.

Line 110. While resignation gently slopes the way, — And, all his prospects brightening to the last, His heaven commences ere the world be past.

Line 122. And the loud laugh that spoke the vacant mind.

The Deserted Village - Continued.

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A man he was to all the country dear,
And passing rich with forty pounds a year.

Line 158. Shouldered his crutch and showed how fields were won.

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Careless their merits or their faults to scan,
His pity gave ere charity began.

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And e'en his failings leaned to virtue's side.

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Allured to brighter worlds, and led the way.

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And fools who came to scoff remained to pray.

Line 184. And plucked his gown, to share the good man's smile.

Line 192. Eternal sunshine settles on its head.

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Full well the busy whisper, circling round,
Conveyed the dismal tidings when he frowned.

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In arguing, too, the parson owned his skill,
For e'en though vanquished, he could argue still ;

The Deserted Village - Continued.
While words of learned length and thundering sound
Amazed the gazing rustics ranged around;
And still they gazed, and still the wonder grew
That one small head could carry all he knew.

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Contrived a double debt to pay.

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To me more dear, congenial to my heart,
One native charm, than all the gloss of art.

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And e'en while fashion's brightest arts decoy,
The heart distrusting asks, if this be joy?

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Her modest looks the cottage might adorn,
Sweet as the primrose peeps beneath the thorn.

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O Luxury! thou cursed by Heaven's decree.

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That found’st me poor at first, and keep'st me so.

RETALIATION.

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Who mixed reason with pleasure and wisdom with mirth.

Retaliation - Continued.

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Who, born for the universe, narrowed his mind,
And to party gave up what was meant for mankind.

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Though equal to all things, for all things unfit;
Too nice for a statesman, too proud for a wit.

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An abridgment of all that was pleasant in man.

Line 107. He cast off his friends, as a huntsman his pack, For he knew when he pleased, he could whistle them back.

She Stoops to Conquer. Act 3. Ask me no questions, and I 'll tell you no fibs.

VICAR OF WAKEFIELD.
Chapter viii.

The Hermit.
Man wants but little here below,
Nor wants that little long.

Chapter xvii. Elegy on a Mad Dog.
The dog, to gain some private ends,
Went mad, and bit the man.

The man recovered of the bite,
The dog it was that died.