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6.63 Charles Foster 1828-1904 6.64 Sir George Foster 1847-1931 6.65 John Foster 1770-1843 6.66 Stephen Collins Foster 1826-64 6.67 Charles Fourier 1772-1837 6.68 Charles James Fox 1749-1806 6.69 George Fox 1624-91 6.70 Henry Fox 6.71 Henry Richard Vassall Fox 6.72 Henry Stephen Fox 1791-1846 6.73 Anatole France (Jacques-Anatole-François Thibault) 1844-1924 6.74 Francis I 1494-1547 6.75 St Francis de Sales 1567-1622 6.76 Georges Franju 1912— 6.77 Benjamin Franklin 1706-90 6.78 Oliver Franks (Baron Franks) 6.79 Sir James George Frazer 1854-1941 6.80 Frederick the Great 1712-86 6.81 Cliff Freeman 6.82 E. A. Freeman 1823-92 6.83 John Freeth c.1731-1808 6.84 John Hookham Frere 1769-1846 6.85 Sigmund Freud 1856-1939 6.86 Betty Friedan 1921— 6.87 Max Frisch 1911— 6.88 Charles Frohman 1860-1915 6.89 Erich Fromm 1900-80 6.90 Robert Frost 1874-1963 6.91 Christopher Fry 1907— 6.92 Roger Fry 1866-1934 6.93 R. Buckminster Fuller 1895-1983 6.94 Sam Fuller 6.95 Thomas Fuller 1608-61 6.96 Thomas Fuller 1654-1734 6.97 Alfred Funke b. 1869 6.98 Douglas Furber, Noel Gay, and Arthur Rose
6.100 Rose Fyleman 1877-1957 7.0 G 7.1 Zsa Zsa Gabor (Sari Gabor) 1919— 7.2 Thomas Gainsborough 1727-88 7.3 Thomas Gaisford 1779-1855 7.4 Hugh Gaitskell 1906-63 7.5 Gaius 2nd century A.D. 7.6 J. K. Galbraith 1908— 7.7 Galileo Galilei 1564-1642 7.8 John Galsworthy 1867-1933 7.9 John Galt 1779-1839 7.10 Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi 1869-1948 7.11 Greta Garbo (Greta Lovisa Gustafsson) 1905-90 7.12 Federico García Lorca 1899-1936 7.13 Richard Gardiner b. c.1533 7.14 Ed Gardner 1905-63 7.15 James A. Garfield 1831-81 7.16 Giuseppe Garibaldi 1807-82 7.17 John Nance Garner 1868-1967 7.18 David Garrick 1717-79 7.19 William Lloyd Garrison 1805-79 7.20 Sir Samuel Garth 1661-1719 7.21 Elizabeth Gaskell 1810-65 7.22 Gavarni (Guillaume Sulpice Chevallier) 1804-66 7.23 John Gay 1685-1732 7.24 Noel Gay (Richard Moxon Armitage) 1898-1954 7.25 Sir Eric Geddes 1875-1937 7.26 George I 1660-1727 7.27 George II 1683-1760 7.28 George III 1738-1820 7.29 George IV 1762-1830 7.30 George V 1865-1936 7.31 George VI 1895-1952 7.32 Daniel George (Daniel George Bunting) 7.33 Lloyd George 7.34 George Gershwin 1898-1937
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These widows, Sir, are the most per
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Where childhood had strayed, The wo
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Float like a butterfly, sting like
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Where Peter is, there must be the C
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weather sharp, the days short, the
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The children in Holland take pleasu
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God be in my eyes, And in my lookin
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Hierusalem, my happy home When shal
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‘American Restaurant Magazine’
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But if that effort be too great, To
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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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May some Christian hold for me the
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every artifice possible—truer tha
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Law is a bottomless pit. ‘The His
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Greek original ascribed to Aristotl
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And naked shingles of the world. Ah
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Eternal Passion! Eternal Pain! ‘P
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Hath trailed the hunter’s javelin
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‘To all gentlemen and yeomen of E
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If all men are born free, how is it
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Do you realize, Mrs Foster, the hou
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If a man will begin with certaintie
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to be read wholly, and with diligen
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Quod enim mavult homo verum esse, i
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A cabinet is a combining committee
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Young Jemmy Grove on his death-bed
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Curst be the heart that thought the
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He flew awa’ in a bleezing flame.
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God send every gentleman Such hound
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2.19 Edward Bangs Yankee Doodle cam
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‘Circumspice, si Monumentum requi
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charm for all; and most have charm
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Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,
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‘Le Mariage de Figaro’ (1785) a
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‘First Love’ (1973) p. 8 If I h
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Talis, inquiens, mihi videtur, rex,
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A swear-word in a rustic slum A sim
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I owe a duty, where I cannot love.
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But as it is!...My language fails!
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‘The Pacifist’ (1938) When I am
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‘American Names’ (1927) We thou
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2.88 Ada Benson and Fred Fisher 187
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By a mighty effort of will, Overcam
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Come on and hear, Come on and hear,
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2.107 Carl Bernstein 1944—and Bob
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Come shooting through the bridge? A
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Love-thirty, love-forty, oh! weakne
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The object of government in peace a
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Woman, because she was taken out of
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Shall not the Judge of all the eart
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Thou shalt not kill. Thou shalt not
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Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when h
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Judges ch. 12, v. 6 Out of the eate
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Am I a dog, that thou comest to me
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2 Kings ch. 9, v. 35 Thou trustest
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I am escaped with the skin of my te
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Yet a little sleep, a little slumbe
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Train up a child in the way he shou
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done: and there is no new thing und
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Truly the light is sweet, and a ple
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keepers of the walls took away my v
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the midst of a people of unclean li
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The bread of adversity, and the wat
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He hath no form nor comeliness; and
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Is there no balm in Gilead? Jeremia
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Daniel ch. 7, v. 9 O Daniel, a man
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Great is Truth, and mighty above al
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In Rama was there a voice heard, la
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And forgive us our debts, as we for
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waters. St Matthew ch. 8, v. 32 He
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Then he saith, I will return into m
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For what shall it profit a man, if
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St Luke ch. 7, v. 47 No man, having
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And when he came to himself, he sai
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Why seek ye the living among the de
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Verily, verily, I say unto you, He
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Put up thy sword into the sheath. S
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Paul, thou art beside thyself; much
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All things are lawful for me, but a
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for the letter killeth, but the spi
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That we henceforth be no more child
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is, and which was, and which is to
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Revelation ch. 7, v. 16 God shall w
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By God, O King, I will neither go n
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Is an arrow from the Almighty’s b
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generation to generation. ‘The Ma
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So I piped, he wept to hear. ‘Son
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‘Songs of Experience’ (1794)
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I am for the woods against the worl
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‘Letters on the Study and Use of
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The original is unfaithful to the t
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Which, like old idols, lost obscene
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Fate is not an eagle, it creeps lik
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For such despight they cast on fema
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‘Mutter Courage’ (1939) sc. 6 D
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England is the mother of Parliament
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No trembler in the world’s storm-
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And in that Heaven of all their wis
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‘Songs of the Governing Classes
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‘The Garden of Cyrus’ (1658) ch
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stand afraid and start at us. ‘Re
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Their sole work is to represent the
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‘Abt Vogler’ (1864) st. 2 On th
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‘The Bishop Orders his Tomb’ (1
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And lack of love from love made man
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‘A Grammarian’s Funeral’ (185
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Only a memory of the same. ‘The L
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Works done least rapidly, Art most
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The best and the last! I would hate
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‘Saul’ (1855) st. 18 I want to
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2.226 Beau Brummell (George Bryan B
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Cannot be wrong. Lines found on his
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slippers, in the sunshine and with
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But I can tell you anyhow, I’ll k
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This barbarous philosophy, which is
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Magnanimity in politics is not seld
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Inscription on the pedestal of the
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Before ye gie poor Frailty names, S
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I wasna fou, but just had plenty.
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When we were first acquent, Your lo
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‘Sketch’ inscribed to Charles J
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An’ fareweel dear, deluding woman
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They lard their lean books with the
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But to us, probability is the very
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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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Then trembles into silence as befor
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So that my name of Epic’s no misn
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‘Don Juan’ (1819-24) canto 3, s
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Or a ‘Ha! ha!’ or ‘Bah!’—
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Absorbed in passion’s and in natu
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‘Stanzas Written on the Road betw
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(1975) Wordsworth—stupendous geni
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3.6 James M. Cain 1892-1977 The pos
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3.15 Lord Camden (Charles Pratt, Ea
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For I fear I have nothing original
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les jours. I’ll tell you a great
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3.26 Al Capp (Alfred Gerard Caplin)
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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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Sirmio, bright eye of peninsulas an
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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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Oh, the gallant fisher’s life, It
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It was about eleven o’clock in th
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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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But al be that he was a philosophre
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The carl spak oo thing, but he thog
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‘The Canterbury Tales’ ‘The P
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Thanne love I most thise floures wh
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With sownes ful of hevenyssh melodi
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Letter to Alexei Suvorin, 4 May 188
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I tell you naught for your comfort,
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Thieves respect property. They mere
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‘Poems’ (1703) ‘To the Ladies
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Guilt in his heart, and famine in h
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The utmost he has been able to gain
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Describing the qualifications desir
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Abiit, excessit, evasit, erupit. He
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3.104 Earl of Clarendon 1609-74 Wit
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The arts of power and its minions a
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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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Old iron, old iron? ‘Any Old Iron
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When you have nothing to say, say n
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Aye, ’tis well enough for a serva
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‘To Sir Godfrey Kneller’ 3.157
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A man that is born falls into a dre
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‘A Song for the Ragged Schools’
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And shivering-sweet to the touch? O
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eau ne peut être la voie ni de l
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‘Drinking’ (1656) Fill all the
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A tale should be judicious, clear,
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‘Say, poor sinner, lov’st thou
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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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It may be for years, and it may be
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3.205 Bing Crosby 1903-77, Roy Turk
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mam) sherman. ‘1 x 1’ (1944) no
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4.0 D 4.1 Samuel Daniel 1563-1619 P
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Considerate la vostra semenza: Fatt
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No, Sir, because I have time to thi
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It was the Rainbow gave thee birth,
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is a soul in prison, I am not free.
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‘The True-Born Englishman’ (170
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Ann, Ann! Come! quick as you can! T
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4.33 Jack Dempsey 1895-1983 Honey,
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4.39 Edward Stanley, fourteenth Ear
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But now he’s gone aloft. ‘Tom B
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Barkis is willin’. ‘David Coppe
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‘Dombey and Son’ (1848) ch. 23
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Some people...may be Rooshans, and
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‘Nicholas Nickleby’ (1839) ch.
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‘Pickwick Papers’ (1837) ch. 2
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‘A Tale of Two Cities’ (1859) b
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Choose One— Then—close the Valv
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When we start deceiving ourselves i
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in financial embarrassment. ‘Hans
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The depositary of power is always u
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Sayings and their Authors’ (1904)
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’Tis enough, that when it fell, T
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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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Ex-Professor Moriarty of mathematic
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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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And feblit with infirmitie: Timor m
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A sunbeam in a winter’s day, Is a
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The haunted, frightened trees, out
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And you’ll never be chid. ‘The
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‘The Flying Spider—Observations
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The mother’s yearning, that compl
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I should like to know what is the p
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‘Four Quartets’ ‘Burnt Norton
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(Costing not less than everything)
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To swell a progress, start a scene
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I read, much of the night, and go s
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These fragments I have shored again
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People’ (1874) ch. 7; ‘Dodd’s
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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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He was uniformly of an opinion whic
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Lies snug As a bug In a rug. Letter
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Anatomy is destiny. ‘Gesammelte S
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The land was ours before we were th
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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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‘The Beggar’s Opera’ (1728) a
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I hate all Boets and Bainters. In J
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7.36 Edward Gibbon 1737-94 The vari
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‘Cold Comfort Farm’ (1932) ch.
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Ambassadors cropped up like hay, Pr
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Filled to the brim with girlish gle
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If you walk down Piccadilly with a
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‘The Pirates of Penzance’ (1879
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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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‘The Deserted Village’ (1770) l
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‘The Good-Natured Man’ (1768) a
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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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Fair laughs the morn, and soft the
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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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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
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‘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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‘Julius Caesar’ (1599) act 2, s
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O! now you weep, and I perceive you
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For new-made honour doth forget men
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But when it first did help to wound
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‘King Lear’ (1605-6) act 1, sc.
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As flies to wanton boys, are we to
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That honour which shall bate his sc
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Still climbing trees in the Hesperi
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Third Witch: There to meet with Mac
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‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 1, sc. 3,
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Your hand, your tongue: look like t
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‘Macbeth’ (1606) act 2, sc. 1,
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Who’s there i’ the other devil
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That I would set my life on any cha
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In the poisoned entrails throw. Toa
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lord, fie! a soldier, and afeard? W
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And wish the estate o’ the world
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‘Measure for Measure’ (1604) ac
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That age, ache, penury, and impriso
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With purpose to be dressed in an op
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And spet upon my Jewish gabardine,
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‘The Merchant of Venice’ (1596-
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That ever blotted paper! ‘The Mer
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For, as thou urgest justice, be ass
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7.66.22 The Merry Wives of Windsor
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Things base and vile, holding no qu
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I know a bank whereon the wild thym
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Methought I was enamoured of an ass
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That you have but slumbered here Wh
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No glory lives behind the back of s
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‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 1, sc. 1
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When I did speak of some distressfu
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Desdemona: O most lame and impotent
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‘Othello’ (1602-4) act 3, sc. 3
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They are not ever jealous for the c
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And his unkindness may defeat my li
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And you the blacker devil. ‘Othel
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Old John of Gaunt, time-honour’d
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With inky blots, and rotten parchme
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My subjects for a pair of carved sa
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After a well-graced actor leaves th
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As ’twere in scorn of eyes, refle
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‘Romeo And Juliet’ (1595) act 1
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Deny thy father, and refuse thy nam
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I am the very pink of courtesy. ‘
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I have a faint cold fear thrills th
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‘The Taming Of The Shrew’ (1592
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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
Page 1493 and 1494:
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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11.98 Nathaniel Parker Willis 1806-
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11.112 William Windham 1750-1810 Th
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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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11.144 Andrew Of Wyntoun c.1350-c.1
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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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Don’t go on looking at me like th
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