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In the cradle where it lies. Let us all ring fancy’s knell: I’ll begin it,—Ding, dong, bell. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 63 So may the outward shows be least themselves: The world is still deceived with ornament. In law, what plea so tainted and corrupt But, being seasoned with a gracious voice, Obscures the show of evil? In religion, What damnéd error, but some sober brow Will bless it and approve it with a text, Hiding the grossness with fair ornament? There is no vice so simple but assumes Some mark of virtue on his outward parts. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 73 Ornament is but the guiléd shore To a most dangerous sea; the beauteous scarf Veiling an Indian beauty; in a word, The seeming truth which cunning times put on To entrap the wisest. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 97 You see me, Lord Bassanio, where I stand, Such as I am: though for myself alone I would not be ambitious in my wish, To wish myself much better; yet, for you I would be trebled twenty times myself; A thousand times more fair, ten thousand times More rich; That only to stand high in your account, I might in virtues, beauties, livings, friends, Exceed account: but the full sum of me Is sum of nothing; which, to term in gross, Is an unlessoned girl, unschooled, unpractised; Happy in this, she is not yet so old But she may learn; happier than this, She is not bred so dull but she can learn. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 149 I wish you all the joy that you can wish. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 191 Here are a few of the unpleasant’st words
That ever blotted paper! ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 2, l. 252 I will have my bond. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 3, l. 17 How every fool can play upon the word! ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 5, l. [48] Wilt thou show the whole wealth of thy wit in an instant? I pray thee, understand a plain man in his plain meaning. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 3, sc. 5, l. [62] You’ll ask me, why I rather choose to have A weight of carrion flesh than to receive Three thousand ducats: I’ll not answer that: But say it is my humour: is it answered? ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 40 Some men there are love not a gaping pig; Some, that are mad if they behold a cat; And others, when the bagpipe sings i’ the nose, Cannot contain their urine. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 47 There is no firm reason to be rendered, Why he cannot abide a gaping pig; Why he, a harmless necessary cat; Why he, a wauling bagpipe. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 53 I am not bound to please thee with my answer. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 65 What judgment shall I dread, doing no wrong? ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 89 I am a tainted wether of the flock, Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit Drops earliest to the ground. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. 114 I never knew so young a body with so old a head. ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-8) act 4, sc. 1, l. [163] Portia: Then must the Jew be merciful. Shylock: On what compulsion must I? tell me that. Portia: The quality of mercy is not strained, It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven Upon the place beneath: it is twice blessed; It blesseth him that gives and him that takes:
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7.71 John Gower c.1330-1408 7.72 Si
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4.75 John Pomfret 1667-1702 4.76 Ma
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7.59 Edward Sexby d. 1658 7.60 Anne
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‘The Education of Henry Adams’
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These widows, Sir, are the most per
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Hierusalem, my happy home When shal
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‘In the 11th of Elizabeth’ (17
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From a West Indian calypso and adop
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Annotation to a ministerial brief,
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And if she won’t, she won’t; so
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laisser libre que le bras du bourre
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Know thyself. Inscribed on the temp
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every artifice possible—truer tha
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Law is a bottomless pit. ‘The His
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Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain! ‘P
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‘To all gentlemen and yeomen of E
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charm for all; and most have charm
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I owe a duty, where I cannot love.
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The object of government in peace a
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St Luke ch. 7, v. 47 No man, having
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‘Songs of the Governing Classes
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stand afraid and start at us. ‘Re
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‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb’ (1
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Only a memory of the same. ‘The L
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slippers, in the sunshine and with
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Magnanimity in politics is not seld
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Before ye gie poor Frailty names, S
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When we were first acquent, Your lo
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He that complies against his will,
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On the strawberry, in Izaak Walton
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His blood-red tresses deep’ning i
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I stood Among them, but not of them
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When thou, poor excommunicate From
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History a distillation of rumour.
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Little grains of sand, Make the mig
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No! No! Sentence first—verdict af
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choose it to mean—neither more no
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The Middle of Next Week. ‘The one
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‘My God, I Love Thee’ (1849 hym
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I hate and I love: why I do so you
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to speak some languages that is not
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John Cleese 1939— Terry Gilliam 1
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La vraye science et le vray ètude
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Letter to Alexei Suvorin, 4 May 188
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‘Poems’ (1703) ‘To the Ladies
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The utmost he has been able to gain
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Describing the qualifications desir
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3.104 Earl of Clarendon 1609-74 Wit
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First Lord Clive’ (1848) ch. 1 3.
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‘The Latest Decalogue’ (1862)
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That I will soon be there. ‘Give
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He holds him with his glittering ey
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It ceased; yet still the sails made
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That tremble into thought, as o’e
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All thoughts, all passions, all del
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of his works came out of the unfath
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‘To Sir Godfrey Kneller’ 3.157
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‘A Song for the Ragged Schools’
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‘Drinking’ (1656) Fill all the
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That slaves, howe’er contented, n
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‘The Task’ (1785) bk. 5 ‘The
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Where all presented to the eye or e
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You who desired so much—in vain t
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Considerate la vostra semenza: Fatt
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is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 2
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Choose One— Then—close the Valv
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in financial embarrassment. ‘Hans
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Sayings and their Authors’ (1904)
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Of golden sands, and crystal brooks
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‘Songs and Sonnets’ ‘A Noctur
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if a clod be washed away by the sea
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my ears yielding like swinging door
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With such acts fill a pen? Or Engla
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Property has its duties as well as
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‘Absalom and Achitophel’ (1681)
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Thou best of thieves; who, with an
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And thus the child imposes on the m
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An art, in London only is a trade.
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Some to undo, and some to be undone
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A sunbeam in a winter’s day, Is a
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And you’ll never be chid. ‘The
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‘The Flying Spider—Observations
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(Costing not less than everything)
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What is a communist? One who hath y
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Art is a jealous mistress. ‘The C
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1912 that she copied this in her ha
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In the country of the blind the one
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I gave my life for freedom—This I
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Said to Lord Boyd-Orr at a conferen
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‘German Requiem’ (1981) p. 1 6.
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certain quantity of delicate white
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Never contradict Never explain Neve
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The flower that once has blown for
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And in thy joyous errand reach the
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And if against all these thou keep
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A direful death indeed they had Tha
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Care-charming Sleep, thou easer of
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‘The Author’ (1757) act 2 So sh
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There’s a silver lining Through t
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has value. ‘A Passage to India’
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Anatomy is destiny. ‘Gesammelte S
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Is incontestable. It undercuts The
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Letter to a patron, in John Hayes
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a las cinco de la tarde At five in
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Resolution adopted by the Massachus
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I hate all Boets and Bainters. In J
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‘Cold Comfort Farm’ (1932) ch.
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Ambassadors cropped up like hay, Pr
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If you walk down Piccadilly with a
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House of Commons, 7 May 1877 The re
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Ohne Butter werden wir fertig, aber
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Weeping and watching for the morrow
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Two things stand like stone, Kindne
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Send me the half that’s got my ke
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Of all pains, the greatest pain Is
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‘Ode on the Death of a Favourite
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‘The Spleen’ (1737) l. 92 By ha
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7.94 Gregory VII 1020-85 Dilexi ius
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Christmas card I received this morn
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Order to British troops, 12 April 1
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‘Works’ (1625) p. 670 8.15 Fitz
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8.26 Learned Hand 1872-1961 A self-
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words—those terrible marks of the
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If way to the Better there be, it e
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And nestlings fly: And the little b
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Licker talks mighty loud w’en it
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At last the belles ryngeth to evens
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university. ‘Table Talk’ vol. 1
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Wherever books are burned, men also
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Where do the noses go? I always won
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The better day, the worse deed. ‘
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The Common Law of England has been
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And I replied, ‘My Lord.’ ‘Th
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‘Man’ (1633) When boys go first
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‘Outlandish Proverbs’ (1640) no
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Made us nobly wild, not mad. ‘An
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At once, a bud, and yet a rose full
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Well, we knocked the bastard off! O
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whatsoever, if but a man. ‘Leviat
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deliberate and forced, and partakes
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Happy, and glorious, Long to reign
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It is not written what a man shall
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Glad to death’s mystery, Swift to
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‘The Song of the Shirt’ (1843)
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Wild air, world-mothering air, Nest
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‘Spring and Fall: to a young chil
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Reddiderit iunctura novum. You will
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Quidquid delirant reges plectuntur
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What pleasure does it give to be ri
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‘Odes’ bk. 1, no. 37, l. 1 Pers
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‘Odes’ bk. 3, no. 29, l. 12 Exe
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Even though broken up, the limbs of
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The hour when earth’s foundations
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The gale, it plies the saplings dou
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‘Philistine’ December 1909, p.
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On rèsiste á l’invasion des arm
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Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe incre
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That action is best, which procures
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far as the guardsman’s cut and th
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‘Peer Gynt’ (1867) act 4 Tar de
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9.11 Eugéne Ionesco 1912— C’es
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After leaving his sick-bed in Octob
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One might ennumerate the items of h
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10.11 Randall Jarrell 1914-65 To Am
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We are not afraid to follow truth w
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10.23 William Jerome 1865-1932 Any
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The saddest of all Kings Crowned, a
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If the changes we fear be thus irre
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I am disappointed by that stroke of
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‘Taxation No Tyranny’ (1775 (Ya
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[Johnson:] No, Sir; stark insensibi
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on people praying with him; and I
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In James Boswell ‘The Life of Sam
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Charing-Cross. In James Boswell ‘
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In James Boswell ‘The Life of Sam
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Classical quotation is the parole o
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This was easy;—he therefore caugh
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Hester Lynch Piozzi ‘Anecdotes of
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True happiness Consists not in the
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‘A Celebration of Charis’ (1640
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It is not growing like a tree In bu
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Let him who has won it bear the pal
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By an epiphany he meant a sudden sp
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shewed it thee? Love. What shewed H
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10.60 Juvenal A.D. c.60-c.130 Diffi
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Only two things does he worry about
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Ehrfurcht, ie “fter und anhaltend
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‘The Great Hunger’ (1947) I hat
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She loves me dearly; She is so cons
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Where’s the cheek that doth not f
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‘I stood tip-toe upon a little hi
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For ever wilt thou love, and she be
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Where palsy shakes a few, sad, last
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‘On the Sea’ (1817) Yet the swe
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And precipices show untrodden green
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Scenery is fine—but human nature
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Letter to J. H. Reynolds, 24 August
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Keep me, O keep me, King of Kings,
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O! they’re all fled with thee, Ro
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I think that I shall never see A po
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the presence of justice. Letter fro
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And the children stood watching the
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‘The Ballad of East and West’ (
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‘In Partibus’ (1909) Then ye re
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What is a woman that you forsake he
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The sheep-bells and the ship-bells
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‘Just So Stories’ (1902) ‘The
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Art does not reproduce the visible;
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God seems to have left the receiver
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12.1 Henry Labouchere 1831-1912 He
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12.7 Fiorello La Guardia 1882-1947
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[A pun] is a pistol let off at the
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£40,000 a year a moderate income
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Epigram in ‘The Atlas’, 28 Apri
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Et emitte coelitus Lucis tuae radiu
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Leaving the gardens tidy, The thous
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One is never as unhappy as one thin
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Ours is essentially a tragic age, s
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And so, I missed my chance with one
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ode madly off in all directions.
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‘More Nonsense’ (1872) ‘One H
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Title of book (1952) The few really
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It is well that war is so terrible.
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Above us only sky, Imagine all the
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Who, when you win, will always give
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On Oscar Wilde, in ‘Letters to th
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Never knowingly undersold. Slogan (
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What is conservatism? Is it not adh
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Minds still passion-ridden, soul-po
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scourged mankind. I hope we may say
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You would think him a very foolish
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The time has come for all good men
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And the thoughts of youth are long,
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Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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apocryphal) J’ai failli attendre.
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Generic name for the archetypal rig
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The aquarium is gone. Everywhere, g
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Thinking nothing done while anythin
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And life is given to none freehold,
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‘Campaspe’ (1584) act 3, sc. 3
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The English Bible, a book which, if
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A rake among scholars, and a schola
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Then out spake brave Horatius, The
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By and by God caught his eye. ‘Re
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1.19 Sir Ian MacGregor 1912— Peop
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‘The Gutenberg Galaxy’ (1962) p
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There were two glasses and two chai
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Liberty is to faction what air is t
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‘Lettres et Opuscules Inèdits’
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Wherefore, madam, I pray you kiss m
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announce the beginning of a new mon
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1.71 Edwin Markham 1852-1940 Bowed
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O I’ll leap up to my God: who pul
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Nature that framed us of four eleme
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honesty is a good thing but it is n
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‘Bermudas’ (written c.1653, pub
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While man there walked without a ma
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Thus, though we cannot make our sun
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I like a cigar, but every now and a
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Firewood, ironware, and cheap tin t
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practised at spare moments; it is a
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1.105 Dame Nellie Melba (Helen Port
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The saddest life is that of a polit
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‘One of Our Conquerors’ (1891)
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Error has never approached my spiri
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the liberty of action of any of the
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1.125 Alice Duer Miller 1874-1942 I
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‘The House at Pooh Corner’ (192
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‘Winnie-the-Pooh’ (1926) ch. 9
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Were all to-ruffled, and sometimes
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As the gay motes that people the su
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‘L’Allegro’ (1645) l. 25 Spor
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For Lycidas is dead, dead ere his p
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Where thou perhaps under the whelmi
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And let the base of heaven’s deep
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United thoughts and counsels, equal
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And when night Darkens the streets,
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‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 2, l
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The other shape, If shape it might
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At whose sight all the stars Hide t
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And these the gems of heaven, her s
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Headlong themselves they threw Down
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She fair, divinely fair, fit love f
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‘Paradise Lost’ (1667) bk. 12,
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Of such doctrine never was there sc
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Brought to me like Alcestis from th
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we do injuriously by licensing and
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Laudamus te, benedicimus te, adoram
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Grant them eternal rest, O Lord; an
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saved many an English spinster from
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‘Les femmes savantes’ (1672) ac
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And bigamy, Sir, is a crime!’ ‘
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domestic business is no less import
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1.156 Casimir, Comte de Montrond 17
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Believe me, if all those endearing
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‘National Airs’ (1815) ‘Oft i
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In William Roper ‘The Life of Sir
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Had she come all the way for this,
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1.183 Rogers Morton 1914-79 I’m n
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1.195 Ethel Watts Mumford 1878-1940
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There is no way to peace. Peace is
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There is only one step from the sub
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A billboard lovely as a tree. Perha
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2.13 Emperor Nero A.D. 37-68 Qualis
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It would be a gain to the country w
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2.20 Sir Isaac Newton 1642-1727 If
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2.27 Martin Niemöller 1892-1984 Wh
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Too kind, too kind. On the Order of
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2.39 Alfred Noyes 1880-1958 The win
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All the news that’s fit to print.
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Title of play (written 1940-1; publ
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Journalism and Letters of George Or
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‘Shooting an Elephant’ (1950)
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Of the world for ever, it seems.
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allow it to be savage. ‘Epistulae
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And bugles calling for them from sa
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system. ‘The Age of Reason’ pt.
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What is merit? The opinion one man
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Shivering and sighing And he vows h
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‘Pensèes’ (1670) no. 29 Tout l
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Her ball-dress seemed a breathing m
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Mid pleasures and palaces though we
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Whose flame creeps in at every hole
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which was done there, he looking as
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Live with yourself: get to know how
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Mrs Queen’. Speech to English-Spe
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There is something behind the thron
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not angry with me, for you know who
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Than to love and be loved by me.
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Gentle Dullness ever loves a joke.
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‘Elegy to the Memory of an Unfort
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Sees but a backward steward for the
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As shallow streams run dimpling all
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The hoarse, rough verse should like
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Know then thyself, presume not God
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The worst of madmen is a saint run
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Belinda smil’d, and all the world
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‘The Open Society and its Enemies
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I am worn to a ravelling...I am und
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wrote make it new on his bath tub.
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walked eye-deep in hell believing i
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that much was ominous. With middle-
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Liturgy, to keep the mean between t
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enemies. ‘Morning Prayer’, The
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O God, merciful Father, that despis
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thy governance, that thy Church may
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Because it is requisite, that no ma
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all the sinful lusts of the flesh.
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our dear brother here departed, we
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At the brightness of his presence h
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The Lord is my light, and my salvat
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ock, and ordered my goings. Psalm 4
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For lo, the kings of the earth: are
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Psalm 62, v. 4 As for the children
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The mountains also shall bring peac
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As soon as thou scatterest them the
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They shall perish, but thou shalt e
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they would be. Psalm 107, v. 27 The
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Our soul is escaped even as a bird
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Psalm 141, v. 11 Enter not into jud
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dangerous deceits. ‘Articles of R
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And they have my whimsies, but thou
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Laus erit: in magnis et voluisse sa
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The true paradises are paradises we
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There was an old owl lived in an oa
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Ev’n at the brink of danger; not
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6.2 Jean Racine 1639-99 Je l’ai t
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‘Devonshire’ p. 261. Even such
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pederasty—whatever the French bel
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‘Lessons of the War: 3, Unarmed C
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In the factory we make cosmetics; i
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Prove to me that you’re no fool W
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Nun danket alle Gott, Mit Herzen, M
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‘Dèclaration des droits de l’h
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I’ll change a mistress till I’m
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By form assisted, flew from thy emb
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6.71 Mme Roland 1754-93 O libertè!
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wars. Undelivered address for Jeffe
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Was but a dream; and now I wake, Ex
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They die not,—for their life was
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Le jour de gloire est arrivè... Au
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Oh! we don’t want to lose you but
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without labour is base. ‘Time and
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enjoying themselves, or, more gener
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And Vigny more discreet, as if in h
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‘The Catcher in the Rye’ (1951)
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7.14 Lord Samuel (Herbert Louis, fi
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Music is essentially useless, as li
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I confused things with their names:
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‘On Passing the New Menin Gate’
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In Robin Morgan ‘Sisterhood is Po
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He is gone on the mountain, He is l
Page 1277 and 1278:
‘Marmion’ (1808) canto 5, st. 1
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Come open your gates, and let me ga
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From whence his mother rose. ‘Lov
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her heart. ‘1066 and All That’
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7.62 Thomas Shadwell c.1642-92 Word
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Antony: Then must thou needs find o
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O’er-picturing that Venus where w
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To follow with allegiance a fall’
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Cleopatra: So it should be, that no
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I wish you all joy of the worm. ‘
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And churlish chiding of the winter
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‘As You Like It’ (1599) act 2,
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Hath virgined it e’er since. ‘C
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Can snore upon the flint when resty
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The bird of dawning singeth all nig
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It is not, nor it cannot come to go
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You must not take for fire. ‘Haml
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To prick and sting her. ‘Hamlet
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But keep a farm, and carters. ‘Ha
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What’s Hecuba to him or he to Hec
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‘Hamlet’ (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l
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We that have free souls, it touches
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Stewed in corruption, honeying and
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And his sandal shoon. ‘Hamlet’
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There is no ancient gentlemen but g
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Then, venom, to thy work. ‘Hamlet
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‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 1
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‘Henry IV, Part 1’ (1597) act 2
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Heard, not regarded. ‘Henry IV, P
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Fare thee well, great heart! Ill-we
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To build at all? ‘Henry IV, Part
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carved upon it with a knife. ‘Hen
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Where, for anything I know, Falstaf
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‘Henry V’ (1599) act 2, sc. 3,
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Yet sit and see; Minding true thing
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Will stand a tip-toe when this day
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And of it made his son imperial lor
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‘Henry VI, Part 2’ (1592) act 4
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There had made a lasting spring. Ev
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Of an unbounded stomach. ‘Henry V
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I had as lief not be as live to be
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Yesterday the bird of night did sit
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Page 1369 and 1370: O! now you weep, and I perceive you
Page 1373 and 1374: For new-made honour doth forget men
Page 1375 and 1376: But when it first did help to wound
Page 1377 and 1378: ‘King Lear’ (1605-6) act 1, sc.
Page 1381 and 1382: As flies to wanton boys, are we to
Page 1385 and 1386: That honour which shall bate his sc
Page 1387 and 1388: Still climbing trees in the Hesperi
Page 1389 and 1390: Third Witch: There to meet with Mac
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Page 1393 and 1394: Your hand, your tongue: look like t
Page 1395 and 1396: ‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 2, sc. 1,
Page 1397 and 1398: Who’s there i’ the other devil
Page 1399 and 1400: That I would set my life on any cha
Page 1401 and 1402: In the poisoned entrails throw. Toa
Page 1403 and 1404: lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? W
Page 1405 and 1406: And wish the estate o’ the world
Page 1407 and 1408: ‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) ac
Page 1409 and 1410: That age, ache, penury, and impriso
Page 1411 and 1412: With purpose to be dressed in an op
Page 1413 and 1414: And spet upon my Jewish gabardine,
Page 1415: ‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-
Page 1419 and 1420: For, as thou urgest justice, be ass
Page 1421 and 1422: 7.66.22 The Merry Wives of Windsor
Page 1423 and 1424: Things base and vile, holding no qu
Page 1425 and 1426: I know a bank whereon the wild thym
Page 1427 and 1428: Methought I was enamoured of an ass
Page 1429 and 1430: That you have but slumbered here Wh
Page 1431 and 1432: No glory lives behind the back of s
Page 1433 and 1434: ‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1
Page 1435 and 1436: When I did speak of some distressfu
Page 1437 and 1438: Desdemona: O most lame and impotent
Page 1439 and 1440: ‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3
Page 1441 and 1442: They are not ever jealous for the c
Page 1443 and 1444: And his unkindness may defeat my li
Page 1445 and 1446: And you the blacker devil. ‘Othel
Page 1447 and 1448: Old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d
Page 1449 and 1450: With inky blots, and rotten parchme
Page 1451 and 1452: My subjects for a pair of carved sa
Page 1453 and 1454: After a well-graced actor leaves th
Page 1455 and 1456: As ’twere in scorn of eyes, refle
Page 1457 and 1458: ‘Romeo And Juliet’ (1595) act 1
Page 1459 and 1460: Deny thy father, and refuse thy nam
Page 1461 and 1462: I am the very pink of courtesy. ‘
Page 1463 and 1464: I have a faint cold fear thrills th
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Allaying both their fury, and my pa
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Our revels now are ended. These our
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Their fears of hostile strokes, the
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Unfit to hear moral philosophy. ‘
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Hector is dead; there is no more to
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Lady, you are the cruell’st she a
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Than women’s are. ‘Twelfth Nigh
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‘Twelfth Night’ (1601) act 3, s
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Why have you suffered me to be impr
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‘The Two Gentlemen Of Verona’ (
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The winds of March with beauty; vio
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And now this pale swan in her water
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And trouble deaf heaven with my boo
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Save, where you are, how happy you
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So thy great gift, upon misprision
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Distilled from limbecks foul as hel
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Save a proud rider on so proud a ba
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‘Everybody’s Political What’s
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Englishmen never will be slaves: th
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patriotic principles; he robs you o
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If otherwise wish I. Poem (1916) in
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Envy and calumny and hate and pain,
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Like wrecks of a dissolving dream.
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Now is come a darker day, And thou
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Be through my lips to unawakened ea
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To forgive wrongs darker than death
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The devotion to something afar From
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A single word even may be a spark o
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‘The Rivals’ (1775) act 3, sc.
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I presume you’re mortal, and may
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Tempers her words to trampling hors
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7.95 N. F. Simpson 1919— Knocked
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She is the violet, The daisy delect
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On what a charity ye come To bless
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As respects the great contrivances
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Smith: It is not for me, Your Honou
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‘Not Waving but Drowning’ (1957
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And, scarce-suspected, animate the
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from hence to there may be blessed;
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That you’ll remember. For you nee
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‘The Doctor’ (1812) ch. 17 Show
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A clever theft was praiseworthy amo
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My verse your virtues rare shall et
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Gather the rose of love, whilst yet
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That even the gentle stream, the wh
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She’s the Broad and I’m the Hig
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A self-made man is one who believes
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I knew that once: but now—I think
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‘Tristram Shandy’ (1759-67) bk.
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‘Bantams in Pine Woods’ (1923)
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The body dies; the body’s beauty
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The bright face of danger. ‘Acros
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‘Virginibus Puerisque’ (1881)
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Let the blow fall soon or late, Let
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7.173 Caskie Stinnett 1911— A dip
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Discretion is not the better part o
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At length the candle’s out, and n
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ibs I gives Mrs J when I think they
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however this be, his Majesty hath d
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‘A Tale of a Tub’ (1704) ch. 9
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Hobbes clearly proves, that every c
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Blossom by blossom the spring begin
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‘Hymn of Man’ Glory to Man in t
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‘A man who is not afraid of the s
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‘Fireflies’ (1928) p. 29 8.3 Ne
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Establishment. ‘Essays in English
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Personally, I have always looked on
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Close to the sun in lonely lands, R
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‘Idylls of the King’ (1842-85)
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And every marge enclosing in the mi
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The sad mechanic exercise, Like dul
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The great world’s altar-stairs Th
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Ring in the Christ that is to be.
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Thick-jewelled shone the saddle-lea
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Than labour in the deep mid-ocean,
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And a hush with the setting moon.
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Who never sold the truth to serve t
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Deep as first love, and wild with a
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But I cannot meet them here, for my
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By this still hearth, among these b
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Lovers’ rows make love whole agai
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‘Vanity Fair’ (1847-8) ch. 36 (
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‘De Imitatione Christi’ bk. 3,
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My birthday Away but the weather tu
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in the climate of our conception?
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(O filigree petal!) Fashioned so pu
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‘The Seasons’ (1728) ‘Winter
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The three-o’-clock in the morning
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Nature is always wise in every part
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eat: it was a hobbit-hole, and that
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The state of both his universities,
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The comic almanacs give us dreadful
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Where force is necessary, there it
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Truth is the most valuable thing we
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‘A Tramp Abroad’ (1880) ch. 8 A
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Un poéme n’est jamais achevè—
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Wise Nicodemus saw such light As ma
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10.12 Thorstein Veblen 1857-1929 Co
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I will be good. On being shown a ch
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I sing of arms and the man who firs
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How greatly changed from that Hecto
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longing for the further shore. ‘A
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whole world. ‘Eclogue’ no. 1, l
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Me too the Muses made write verse.
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Ils ne se servent de la pensèe que
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11.0 W Attributed to Voltaire, the
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Illustrious acts high raptures do i
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Letter to Mason, 12 June 1775, in
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‘The Compleat Angler’ (1653) pt
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with. ‘Science and Natural Histor
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From every opening flower! ‘Again
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eneficed clergyman and need not com
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Sidney would remark, ‘I know just
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‘The White Devil’ (1612) act 1,
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The British are coming. Speech acce
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Stanhope ‘Notes of Conversations
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‘Rule of Conduct’ in ‘Letters
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The byrdes sang swete in the middes
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Democracy is the recurrent suspicio
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I dreamed that was the new city of
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I have said that the soul is not mo
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‘Barbara Frietchie’ l. 41 For a
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I never saw a man who looked With s
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‘The Importance of Being Earnest
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Children begin by loving their pare
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ugs stand as if amazed. ‘How To B
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‘The Code of the Woosters’ (193
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11.123 Thomas Wolfe 1900-38 Most of
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them pass, but the 3rd 4th 5th 6th
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To express what then I saw; and add
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’Tis my delight, alone in summer
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‘Laodamia’ (1815) l. 103 I have
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What, you are stepping westward?
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Our birth is but a sleep and a forg
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‘Ode. Intimations of Immortality
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I heard among the solitary hills Lo
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And clearest insight, amplitude of
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For transient sorrows, simple wiles
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And shaped these pleasant walks by
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That poorly satisfy our eyes, More
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Out of old mythologies From heel to
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Wherever green is worn, Are changed
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A shudder in the loins engenders th
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That young men, tossing on their be
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World-besotted traveller; he Served
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What lively lad most pleasured me O
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‘The Complaint: Night Thoughts’
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